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The Truman Administration, said Dulles, had slipped into a "policy of neglect" toward its southern neighbors, concentrating on Europe and Asia and "taking it for granted that we could forget about South America for a time and then go back and find everything the same as it was before." Brazilians...
The late unhappy Stefan Zweig shared with most of us who have lived there the belief that Brazil is indeed a "pais do futuro" (land of the future). [He] attributed the lack of race distinction to the organized planning of the early followers of Loyola in the 16th Century. Led...
Not only censorship but bombing of the press is an old Cuban tactic and last week some daring Cubans, who were rumored to be in sympathy with the radical Spanish Government, decided to destroy two Havana newsorgans considered most sympathetic with Spain's Whites. A 12-year-old touring...
Enrique Pizzi Porras, night city editor of Havana's El Pais, waited for the first copies to come up off the press fortnight ago, wished his reporters a Happy New Year, closed his desk, hurried across town to the sanctuary of the Mexican Embassy. The front page of El...
It contained no cadaver. Inside were a dozen cans of ether and the following articles: two revolvers, 40 rounds of ammunition, twelve pairs of riding boots, a box of nickel-plated spurs, twelve officers' uniforms complete with hats, a gross of clinical thermometers, box after box of silver-plated...