Word: neighbors
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...believes strongly in the policy of non-intervention in Argentine domestic affairs (no more such frowns). This is not only a reversal of Spruille Braden's policy, which preceded Messersmith's advent in Argentina, but a reaffirmation of one of the cardinal aims of the Good Neighbor Policy, established by Franklin Roosevelt and Sumner Welles...
...early '30s, when the Good Neighbor Policy was instituted, the man to whom policy mainly meant words was good, grey Secretary of State Cordell Hull; the man to whom it meant deeds was glacial Under Secretary Sumner Welles. Today, Hull's position has been taken by Spruille Braden, who is still Assistant Secretary of State for American Republic Affairs, and George Messersmith's immediate boss. The chief exponent of the philosophy that policy means deeds (or tactics and approach) is George Messersmith...
...Good Neighbor Policy, which had as its aim the bringing together of all Western Hemisphere nations in a democratic group, worked, in effect, when it was administered by Welles (along with some shrewd and cold-hearted Welles meddling in internal Latin American affairs). It was least effective when it was merely pronounced in righteous terms by Cordell Hull, who had an unhappy faculty of alienating sensitive Latinos with the Tennessee mountain vigor of his epithets...
...shoved the Good Neighbor Policy in the background, especially in relation to Argentina. In 1943 a military junta pulled off a coup d'etat in Buenos Aires. Falteringly, the U.S. first recognized one militarist regime, then denied recognition to the next...
...silence, then a benediction. His topic: "Unfairness." Some of his thoughts: "Quiet thinking and meditation are necessary so that our minds can meet and get strength to meet the tasks ahead. . . . People must seek peace and courage in God. . . . n the words 'Love God and love your neighbor,' we have the power of peace, tranquillity, courage and inspiration...