Word: panning
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Like an efficient hostess, Colombia is preparing well ahead of time for the ninth Pan American Conference, scheduled tentatively for December. A primary move has been to rid Bogotá's streets of beggars, which last week were strangely free of the lame and the halt-result of a preconference roundup...
...Chosen Instrument. One of the things Pat Patterson's economics division has told him is that the international air policy of the U.S. is all wrong. When it first told him this, Pan American Airways' smart Juan Trippe was plumping for the Chosen Instrument. When Patterson supported Trippe, the other domestic lines went after him like a flock of hawks. But Patterson has stuck to his guns. The current U.S. policy of regulated competition, on international routes, says he, will not work. He has some claim to impartiality in the argument. United was-and is-the only...
...conference strained over discords. India's Moslem League boycotted it, but the delegates from other heavily Moslem nations ignored the League's protests over their presence.* Vietnamese delegates called Cambodians "French puppets" and drew a retort from Her Highness You Pan Tror, a stocky, swarthy Princess, that Cambodia would have nothing to do with Viet Nam. Princess You also quarreled loudly with her interpreter (the conference's many voices were translated into Asia's lingua franca-English...
That was good enough to catch the promoters (and their dupes) of such notorious Communist fronts as the National Committee to Win the Peace.* Probably it would also catch the pink-tea groups, like the Congress of American Women and the Council for Pan-American Democracy. In the last analysis, if the U.S. was to have real security and no witch hunts, everything would depend upon the men running the machinery, and how they interpreted their instructions...
...result was that in last year's elections the Liberals (whose two candidates polled a majority) were soundly defeated. But not even Colombian Liberals set up an opposition cry when their leader was presented for the $18,000-a-year job (tax free) as head of the Pan American Union. Lleras' election was unanimous...