Word: padilla
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Government's note was an ultimatum, to expire this week. If satisfaction was not received, said Padilla, Mexico would "take a position in accordance with Mexican honor." Translated into cold fact, this threat would probably mean, not war, but the grabbing of all Axis property in Mexico-a juicy morsel estimated at just under one billion dollars. As for actual war, U.P. reported a Foreign Office authority as saying, "the ultimate effect will be a declaration of war, but that 'will take some time...
...tanker Potrero del Llano, the former Italian Lucifero, which Mexico had grabbed a year ago, was nosing along off the Florida coast, her colors illuminated, when she was torpedoed with a loss of 14 of her 35-man crew. The very next day Foreign Minister Ezequiel Padilla sent a note, demanding "complete satisfaction, and a guarantee of damage reparations," not only to Germany and Italy, but even to Japan...
Official Washington saw a good deal of the dark, eloquent visitor who has come to symbolize the will toward hemisphere cooperation: Mexican Foreign Minister Ezequiel Padilla (TIME, April 6). Washington liked what it saw-a man whose genuineness is as obvious as his grace...
Late in the week Foreign Minister Padilla took a drive along the Potomac, past Arlington Cemetery, and out to Mount Vernon. He asked a few questions, such as when the Japanese cherry blossoms would bloom, but was usually quiet, his expressive hands working as when he makes a speech. That night, at a dinner given him by Senator Tom Connally, Ezequiel Padilla said: "I toast the greatness of this American nation. . . . In human history never has any nation on the earth had a greater job than the United States has now. Nevertheless, in all the phases of this job shines...
...transformation of Padilla from a revolutionist in the hills to a man of property is a parallel to the transformation of Mexico. As a young politician, Padilla well remembered that the U.S. in 1846 fought Mexico over the uncertain Texas boundary and ended by taking a third of Mexico's territory, that it got another piece (by purchase) in 1853, that in 1914 it landed Marines at Vera Cruz, that it sent Black Jack Pershing into Mexico to chase Villa in 1916-all humiliations imposed by a big neighbor on a smaller...