Word: panning
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...some (see REPORT FROM THE WORLD). It was now time, he said, to consider a change in China policy, toward more active support of Chiang's attempts to create a broadened, more democratic government. It was high time for the U.S. to urge the oft-deferred Pan-American conference. But major U.S. policy had now been charted...
Larreta concluded that the U.S., through Pan-American machinery, "can contribute to democracy in the Hemisphere with a disinterestedness difficult to imagine in other powers...
Senator Vandenberg was insistent that the long-deferred Pan American conference be called. He said: "There is too much evidence that we [Western Hemisphere nations] are drifting apart-and that a Communist upsurge is moving in. We face...
Larreta. An interesting-and heartening-conflict of views on "sovereignty" v. "intervention" arose between Uruguay's Foreign Minister Eduardo Rodriguez Larreta and Sumner Welles, former U.S. Under Secretary of State. It was Larreta who urged that small nations, in the interests of a democratic Pan-American community, abandon their fears of U.S. intervention, and Welles who counseled restraint in interfering with the internal affairs of small nations. Said Larreta...
Welles. Before taking issue with Larreta, Welles made it plain that he had not lost any part of his faith in the Pan-American system he helped to build. "We would be unduly ingenuous," he said, "if we were overimpressed by the propaganda which is reaching our shores in ever-increasing volume, and which is designed to persuade us that our accomplishments are negligible, that our system is intended merely to benefit the strong at the expense of the weak, and that our form of Western democracy is an outmoded relic of a decadent past...