Word: padilla
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Mexico's eloquent former Foreign Minister Ezequiel Padilla prefaced the Cleveland Council on World Affairs' 21st Annual Institute with the above verse, from (he said) a 19th Century English hymn...
Through three days of meetings last week the Institute, of which TIME was a cosponsor, did not depart far from Padilla's keynote. The 23 speakers were primarily concerned with plain people-what they would eat and wear, how they thought and felt and worshiped, and what would happen to them if war came again...
...spreading equalitarian doctrines, included: Bernard Baruch, close collaborator of the late Franklin D. Roosevelt; General George C. Marshall, former chief of staff; Henry A. Wallace, former Vice President and vicious fascist-baiter; General Alexander A. Vandegrift, former commander of the notorious Marine Corps; Charles A. Beard, democratic philosopher; Ezequiel Padilla, Trojan horse of the Mexican Anschluss...
...Mexican delegate, Luis Padilla Nervo, wants to know if the scientists think it possible to operate under international authority and in international zones plants producing atomic fuels for both weapons and peaceful uses and to operate in individual nations under national controls secondary plants producing atomic fuel for peaceful purposes...
Then Ezequiel Padilla called in reporters. He showed them a penciled note allegedly smuggled out from the imprisoned Mario. In the note Mario repudiated the confession, and said it had been wrung from him only after he had been starved, threatened with a pistol, and "beaten up like in the time of the Inquisition." Said Padilla: "The darkest chapter in Mexico's history of iniquities." Said Secret Police sub-Chief Jesùs Galindo of Mario's blast: ''Nothing but lies...