Word: pan-american
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Dusty and footsore. Ulises Mejía trudged through the jungles and over mountains, straight across Honduras. At last he reached his goal, knocked on the door of the famed horticulturist, Dr. Wilson Popenoe, head of the School of Pan-American Agriculture at Zamorano. The school was not scheduled to open for two months, but Ulises had come to beg for admission. Last week Ulises, now a prize pupil, was receiving the best training in farming that Central America offers...
...Latin American policy drifted sluggishly around Argentina's request for a Pan-American conference (TiME, Nov. 6), Latin Americans floundered in chaos. Said one Latin diplomat: "Take a look! The Pan American Union accepts Argentina's request unanimously. Notes are sent to 20 nations. The State Department 'Immutables,' consulted by us, say they will not impede such a meeting. We go back to our chancellories and cook up suggestions to send to our Governments. Then we are told by our Foreign Ministers that U.S. Ambassadors have pressed them to take no initiative. At this rate...
...when affronted, buzzed with indignation last week. The war in Europe was near its end; the postwar world was being planned. But their great continent-and-a-fifth was allowed no voice in its planning. Singly and in groups they had hinted to the U.S. State Department that a Pan-American conference was long overdue. (The last was at Rio de Janeiro two years, nine months ago.) The only answer they got was evasion...
...State Department feared, if Washington rumor was right, that a Pan-American conference might take up the painful question of Argentina. This the Latin Americans denied vehemently. Most of them had withdrawn their ambassadors from Argentina. Beyond this action, they wanted no part in the U.S.-Argentine conflict, which they consider a U.S. worry...
...trust us," scoffed the diplomats, "to keep our necks pulled in." For a Pan-American conference with Argentina on the agenda would be under U.S. pressure to gang up on Argentina. If Argentina yielded ground, the State Department might forget the help it had received from the other Latin American countries. But Argentina would not forget-or forgive...