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Results. The U. S. Secretary of State had wanted, above all, Pan-American moral support (the only kind of support the other countries could give) to the Monroe Doctrine. This he got, in the Convention of Havana, which sets up the machinery to seize and administer any European possessions in this hemisphere which are threatened with transfer of sovereignty. But Cordell Hull also wanted Pan-American sanction in case the U. S. finds it necessary to grab a colony or so before the Convention goes into effect. He got that too, in an emergency resolution...
...Resolutions urging the completion of a transoceanic railroad from Santos, Brazil, to Arica, Chile (across Bolivia); completion of the Pan-American Highway...
This year, egged on by Europe's war and talk of Pan-American solidarity, U. S. art galleries have plastered their walls with Latin-American art. But though an unprecedented quantity of pictures and sculpture from south of the Rio Grande is being exhibited from coast to coast, Latin-American art plays to a poor box office. The biggest Latin-American show, at the San Francisco World's Fair, has failed to draw. Even a bang-up Mexican show at Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art (TIME, May 27) has attracted the lowest attendance recorded...
Cuba's sticky tropical heat hung heavily over Havana last week, wilted the neat white suits of solemn Pan-American Conference delegates, kindled explosive oaths in the voices of bustling foreign newsmen, sent little rivulets of perspiration streaming down the beaming faces of 5,000 convening Lions. But the vibrating activity of Havana rose with the temperature as the Conference week rolled on to completion...
...patio below, Dr. Leopoldo Melo, head of the Argentine delegation, slouched in a wicker chair, gesturing with small, delicate hands to emphasize his soft-voiced Spanish sentences. Behind him as interpreter stood handsome, black-haired, flashing-eyed Luis Mariano Zuberbuhler, secretary of the delegation. No newcomer to Pan-American conferences, a stanch U. S. friend is scholarly Buenos Aires Lawyer Melo, onetime Radical Antiper-sonalista (conservative) Deputy & Senator, onetime Minister of Interior. At the Panama meeting last autumn he went over the head of Foreign Minister Jose M. Cantilo, appealed directly to President Roberto M. Ortiz, threatened to resign unless...