Word: panning
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Strong Friend. For Fernandes the Rio conference will be chiefly significant for what it contributes to Pan-Americanism. Said he recently: "Under the impact of war, Pan-Americanism has developed from an association with strictly economic and cultural ends to an institution with political activity . . . imposing upon us a constant watchfulness and a wider understanding. The first factor of success in this new task is the friendship we must keep on cultivating zealously with the sister republics . . . and with the U.S., that proven friend...
...Manhattan, 128 white-uniformed Venezuelan naval cadets marched from the transport Cabana to the statue of Bolívar in Central Park. They heard Dr. Pedro de Alba, Mexican Ambassador to Chile and former assistant director of the Pan American Union, declare that Bolívar's spirit now lives in the 55-nation Assembly of the United Nations. It was July 24, the 164th birthday of the man for whom a country and a dozen towns* have been named...
...more than a liberator. He looked beyond South America, beyond the hemisphere. He backed the Monroe Doctrine. In his call for the first Pan American Congress, to meet in Panama, in 1826, he declared that Latin American countries should cooperate to oppose the "foundation of any foreign colonies on the American continent." He said, too, that he hoped some day there would be in Panama "an eminent Congress made up of representatives from all the republics, kingdoms, and empires to discuss and decide the great problems of peace and war with the nations of the world...
...hopes for the 1826 Pan American Congress, like many of his dreams, came to little in his lifetime. No envoys appeared from Argentina, Brazil, Chile or Bolivia; of two U.S. representatives, one died before he got to Panama, the other arrived too late. But a pattern was set for future meetings of American republics. Bolívar had other disappointments. Venezuela joined Ecuador and Colombia in withdrawing from the federated Great Colombia he had built. His famous general, Antonio José Sucre, was assassinated. He wrote in despair: "Those who worked for South American freedom have plowed...
Prokofiev: Romeo & Juliet Ballet Suite (Boston Symphony Orchestra, Serge Koussevitzky conducting; Victor, 4 sides). Tchaikovsky's romantic overture lent itself to Tin Pan Alley thievery; this does not. Prokofiev makes Miss Capulet and Mr. Montague's troubles far more dissonant and disturbing. Performance: excellent...