Word: pan-american
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...Foreign Ministers were human beings. With the same tactics in 1933, Cordell Hull had saved the International Conference of American States at Montevideo from complete collapse. Until he exhausted this shirt-sleeve diplomacy in Havana, wise men did not entirely discount U. S. hopes for: 1) some sort of Pan-American "collective trusteeship" over French, Dutch, perhaps British possessions in Latin America; 2) at least a start toward a Hemisphere trade cartel, wherewith to combat Nazi commercial and political fifth columny; 3) military cooperation, when & if necessary...
...against Britain, and it pleased some pro-fascist Brazilians who wanted just that. Next, Cuba let it be known that Cubans at the Conference would urge full independence for all colonies and territories in the Western Hemisphere, with weak colonies placed under some form of Pan-American protectorate...
...Pan-American cooperation in taking over Dutch, French and British possessions if threatened by Germany...
...biggest news in Havana was the arrival of delegates from the 21 American republics to open the Inter-American Conference. Principal problems on their agenda were economic and military defense of the hemisphere and disposition of European-owned New World colonies. Under fire even before the conference were several proposals, chief among them the U. S.-sponsored trade-cartel plan, and Cuba's strong suggestion that a joint Pan-American protectorate be established over all foreign-owned islands in the Western Hemisphere...
Brazil. Unlike Argentina, which has been zealously plumping for a South American bloc, Brazil is the logical keystone for any Pan-American structure. The U. S. has long been Brazil's customer for coffee, its rival in world cotton markets. Brazilian Foreign Minister Oswaldo Aranha has come out loud and often for the U. S., is a firm believer in hemispheric economic and military cooperation, but Brazil's President Vargas sometimes plays a different tune...