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Next day President Arosemena spoke. By inference he took many a slap at the uninvited guest as he addressed the invited ones: "Gentlemen . . . you come here neither to destroy nor to enslave nor to dismember nations, nor to prepare the predominion of one people upon the tragic ruins of a neighbor, nor to subscribe to public pacts to cover the maliciousness of secret treaties, nor to proscribe races, nor to persecute religions." So roundly did he condemn totalitarianism that he had to explain that Latin American dictatorships "have never been imperialist or totalitarian." Most of them, he said, were merely...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AMERICAS: No Big Brother | 10/2/1939 | See Source »

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