Word: pan-american
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...dream boat of Pan-American solidarity, manned by men of good will and propelled by idealism, last week weathered the roughest storm since it was launched nine years ago as the U.S. Good Neighbor Policy. At Rio de Janeiro foreign ministers representing the American republics worked to make the dream of complete solidarity come true. They nearly failed&151;nearly succeeded&151;nearly failed again&151;finally made it seem nearly true...
...delegates led by Under Secretary Sumner Welles, who walked in, poker-faced, managing despite midsummer heat and a double-breasted blue suit, to look as cool as a glass of maté. The applause which greeted him was real. For the first time in the long history of Pan-American conferences, delegates, influenced by a common fear of Axis aggression and the past nine years of friendly U.S. relations, seemed to share a feeling that this time the U.S. was not a hypocritical boss but a Good Neighbor who had been attacked. Sumner Welles took a seat on the opposite...
...undertakes this task, Sumner Welles will be helped by his thorough understanding of the four delicately balanced springs of policy in the intricate mechanism of Pan-American relations...
...policy of the U.S. is one of ever-increasing hemisphere solidarity within the bounds of the militarily desirable and the politically practical. Thus the U.S. does not want a Pan-American declaration of war because it would be neither militarily desirable (the other 20 republics need their entire armed forces for defense), nor politically practical (other countries besides Argentina might balk at such a step). The U.S. will be satisfied to carry its war to the Axis so long as its neighbors stand squarely behind...
...Spider. His admirers say that Aranha (pronounced Aran-yah) has the eloquence of Aristide Briand, the romantic dash of D'Artagnan and the Pan-American idealism of the great Simón Bolivar. Actually Aranha is a onetime fire-breathing revolutionary who believes with cold logic that Brazil's self-interest now, as traditionally in the past, lies in close ties with the U.S. He has cemented those ties through hard work, U.S. loans and a charming gift of gab in Portuguese, French, Spanish and English. The word Aranha means "spider" in Portuguese and Aranha, audacious, hypertonic, sometimes...