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...Latin America. As unity grew out of the Pan-American conference at Rio, said Director MacLeish, the Axis beam to South America became a frantic torrent. Since most Latin Americans are Catholics, the Italian radio portrayed "Protestant Roosevelt" in an alliance with "Atheist Stalin" against "Catholic Fascism." Another Axis broadcast asserted that the Vatican had urged Latin America not to break with the Axis. This the Vatican promptly denied...
...A.A.U. officials are planning to send a basketball team to the Pan-American Olympics, scheduled for Buenos Aires next November...
...Prophecy." Bolivar was ahead of his time. His Pan-American Congress was not a success. The personal attacks on him increased. As dictator of Colombia, he was charged with planning to make himself king. The politicians and the rebellious generals began to undermine him. In 1830, the year he died, Bolivar appeared before the Congress at Bogotá and renounced his power as president and generalissimo...
...resources in the war effort, President Conant announced yesterday the appointment of two University committees to aid in public understanding of war problems and one committee to assist in furthering hemispheric solidarity. These are officially titled the Committee on War Speakers, Committee on Wartime Public Opinion, and Committee on Pan-American Relations...
Professor Henry W. Holmes, former Dean of the Graduate School of Education, will head the Speakers Committee: Clarence H. Haring. Robert Woods Bliss Professor of Latin-American History and Economics, the Pan-American Relations Committee: and Robert Lasch, Nieman Fellow from the Omaha "World Herald," the Public Opinion Committee, which is composed entirely of Nieman Fellows...