Word: neighborism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...reviewing stand, happiest of all, stood Good Neighbor Henry Wallace -first Spanish-speaking Vice President the U.S. had ever had. A tiny Mexican girl ran to the stand, kissed him on the cheek. The crowd waved Mexican and U.S. flags with equal enthusiasm...
...Good Neighbor Wallace stepped to the microphone, spoke in the unhesitating Spanish he learned at Washington's Berlitz School and at Spanish-practice luncheons with Washington cronies. "These two nations," said he, "are next-door neighbors and good neighbors, and we have joined hands in the great fight of the United Nations to keep the world free...
Establishment of the bases, under a Good Neighbor agreement, had the hearty endorsement of Ecuador's liberal, hemisphere-minded President Carlos Alberto Arroyo del Rio. The U.S. had been negotiating for them since 1940, last year granted a $500,000 RFC loan for the "commercial improvement" of Albermarle Island, largest of the Galápagos group. (Navy-minded Franklin Roosevelt cruised among the islands on the U.S.S. Houston...
Thus the U.S. still has a whale of a job to do in South American aviation. For want of a little more tact and a few more planes the whole Good Neighbor policy is being chipped and scarred. Whatever the State Department finally decides to do, U.S. aviation insiders have a fast, simple solution: give South American airlines 15 to 25 huge transports right away. With this equipment U.S. lines would have a better chance to keep down Axis competition and give South Americans the finest airline service ever...
Even Optimist Pratt foresees the time when the U.S. reserves of 19 billion barrels will fail. They will not last more than 20 years without new discoveries. Therefore he urges a "truly Good Neighbor Policy" with Latin America since great imports of oil may one day flow to the U.S. from tremendous undiscovered pools in South and Central America...