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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...
...lost his wife's money in business, Elliott sang wrathfully of unwise tax and trade laws. *All the speakers at the Institute spoke in English, although some of them (Uruguay's Larreta, Italy's De Gasperi and Turkey's Yalman) did so with difficulty. Padilla explained his linguistic temerity in a characteristic introduction: "Many years ago I arrived at Paris, and I met and had a very nice friendship with a girl from Hungary. She did not at that time speak a word of Spanish or French, and I did not speak a word of Hungarian...
...Padilla. At Cleveland, Mexico's former Foreign Minister, Ezequiel Padilla, noted as an orator in his native language, made his first try (successful) at extempore speaking in English.*He said...
...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...