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Peace on earth, free trade among nations and equality between the sexes were three noble ideals of which the Seventh Pan-American Conference in Montevideo last week nobly voted approval (with reservations...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: Golden Rule Conference | 12/25/1933 | See Source »

Unlike earnest Russian Reds, the Communists of Uruguay have a highly developed sense of humor. Last week they played a practical joke on the Seventh Pan-American Conference at Montevideo (TIME, Dec. 11). The joke kept august delegates of 21 American nations standing hungrily about in a great marble hall for more than an hour and a half while their dinner grew dry and stale...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: Hungry Statesmen & Honest Press | 12/18/1933 | See Source »

...Hull that the all-American debt structure reared by International Bankers, however diabolical, simply cannot be tampered with by a general moratorium. How to give Dr. Puig's plan a graceful burial was the pressing problem. It was solved by that most arrogantly graceful of old school diplomats, Foreign Minister Dr. Saavedra Lamas of Argentina, who converses in such formal, rounded periods that he always appears to be reading an oration. Dr. Saavedra Lamas remembered that there still exists in Washington a moribund whatnot called the Inter-American High Commission, created by the First Pan-American Financial Conference...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: Hungry Statesmen & Honest Press | 12/18/1933 | See Source »

With asperity Buenos Aires' able Political Colyumist Alberto Gerchunoff declared, "The present Pan-American Conference will probably be known in history as the most mediocre...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: Hungry Statesmen & Honest Press | 12/18/1933 | See Source »

...smallest South American nation- which is also wealthy, salubrious and progressive-played handsome host this week to the Seventh Pan-American Conference...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: INTERNATIONAL Looking Forward | 12/11/1933 | See Source »

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