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Next day he was up early to drive the 45 miles through Rio's encircling mountains to Petrópolis, where the delegates to the Inter-American Defense Conference awaited him. Truman's speech was roundly applauded. He made emphatic what Secretary of State Marshall had already indicated, that Latin American economic needs must wait on those of Europe. In fact, Truman told the delegates, he hoped that the American nations, "each according to its ability and in its own manner," would contribute something themselves...
...Canadians thought Canada had her head in the sand. Said the Montreal Gazette: "Elementary geographical considerations dictate the significance that the Petrópolis treatymakers will attach to Canada's signature to the hemispheric defense act. Without Canadian acceptance . . . the pact will be largely ineffective except as a statement of good intention...
George Marshall was still out for quick adoption of a strong hemispheric treaty. He breakfasted at 8 at his private Petrópolis villa on the Rua 7 de Septembro, and by 10, having read the dispatches from Nanking and Athens, was conferring with his aides in his yellow-&-green Suite 200 at the Quitandinha. Ambassadors William Dawson and Walter Donnelly were acquainted with every Latin American problem, and Donnelly seemed to know every Latin delegate. Bill Pawley was sharp on Brazilian angles. Shrewd Norman Armour, onetime Ambassador in B.A., understood the Argentine way of thinking. Arthur Vandenberg...
Ebullient Foreign Minister Jan Masaryk, 59, son of the great Thomas Masaryk, is a nonpartisan in domestic politics but a western democrat in outlook. Unassuming Dr. Petr Zenkl, 61, Lord Mayor of Prague, old crony of Dr. Benes, is one of the ablest and most popular of Socialist leaders. Shrewd Antonin Zapotocki, Communist boss of the powerful, well-disciplined central trade unions council (U.R.O.), is in the thick of the nationalization program. Workers committees chosen by the U.R.O. will help the Government to manage confiscated factories, allocate manpower, speed up production...
...Hollywood could never make the kind of pictures that Latins enjoy most. Typical of Latin taste is an Argentine film, Petróleo (Oil), now showing in Buenos Aires. A Grade B melodrama according to U. S. standards, it was hailed in Argentina as one of the best Latin films to date. Petróleo's villain is a suave Yankee imperialist (Sebastian Chiola) who turns up in Argentina, tries to do the natives out of their oil wells. Thanks to the keen eyes of an Argentine oilman's daughter (blonde, beautiful Luisita Vehil), Latin virtue triumphs over...