Word: prado
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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President Roosevelt, who loves good news, went beaming to his meeting with Good Neighbor Prado. The less optimistic might wait and wonder, but Franklin Roosevelt was confident of a victory won. The thunderheads broke; the rain poured down. The skies brightened. Said the first Navy communiqué: "Very excellent news has been received...
Other men at such a meeting might have searched their minds for more memorable words. Not so Good Neighbor Franklin Roosevelt and Good Neighbor Manuel Prado Ugarteche of Peru. But it was a memorable occasion: Señor Prado was the first incumbent President of a South American country ever to visit Washington...
...simple friendliness of the Roosevelt greeting made sense to President Prado. Peru's executive is no stuffed shirt. His father was twice President of Peru; a brother, the late Leoncio, is a national hero. Manuel Prado was a scientist, an industrial manager, a banker. But his rise had been a hard grind. His first political experience, as superintendent of a polling station in the elections of 1912, was a beating by a hostile mob. While an undergraduate at Peru's University of San Marcos, he enlisted in the Army as a private, saw front-line service during...
Smooth, tough-minded President Prado had supported the anti-Axis front. Even as President Prado flew north, Peru and the U.S. were completing a reciprocal trade agreement. The bonds between the nations were those of common sense and common interest...
President Prado presented his White House hosts with a hand-hammered silver plate, an assortment of ancient Inca pottery and water jugs; for four days went to formal luncheons, dinners and receptions. Then he addressed Congress-the first Latin American President to do so-and headed for Detroit...