Word: padilla
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Friday Mr. Welles, President Vargas, Mexico's Ezequiel Padilla, Uruguay's Alberto Guani and others leading the fight for an open diplomatic rupture with the Axis gave way. If the U.S. Fleet had been bombarding Tokyo the result might have been different. It might also have been different if Chile's coming Presidential election were over, or if Argentina's Acting President had been less conservative...
...queen-oil. Mexico needed money, trade stabilization, a general economic overhauling. The U.S. needed a powerful demonstration of hemisphere solidarity. President Manuel Avila Camacho needed a big deal to back up his strong anti-Axis stand, his appeals for U.S. collaboration. His Minister of Foreign Affairs, suave Dr. Ezequiel Padilla, known as Narciso Negro (black narcissus) for his elegance, needed a triumph to swing Mexico's foreign policy back to close relations with Britain and the U.S. One thing stood in the way-oil. Between the $175,000,000 at which the oil companies are reported to have valued...
...when news hit Mexico City that an agreement had been reached, Mexicans were jubilant. From all over the Republic congratulatory telegrams poured in to Foreign Minister Padilla. Former President Cárdenas sent his hearty radical blessings to moderate Avila Camacho. Minister Padilla-who was being toasted by the British for having resumed British-Mexican relations-found himself the man of a Mexican hour. Avila Camacho was hailed in the Senate as the liberator of his people. Businessmen expected increased confidence, an influx of foreign capital, an era of prosperity, a boom. Economists said that Mexico's industrialization would...
Other skirmishes in the underground battle for the Hemisphere: ^ To the Government of Mexico, Germany sent a politely threatening note, suggesting that Mexico "reject" the new U.S. export ban on business houses giving financial support to the Nazis. Mexico's Foreign Minister Ezequiel Padilla bluntly retorted that the note was "imperious and unacceptable...
Although the Government had said it would grant exemptions to women with American diplomats sat listening in the gallery. It was the strongest, straightest expression of Hemisphere solidarity to come from Latin America since the Havana Conference. Said Dr. Padilla: "It is the destiny of America to fight, and the Mexican people are determined to share this destiny. We must therefore prepare to cooperate ardently, not in aggression but in defense of this hemisphere, to preserve it as the example and hope of world fraternity and justice...