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...with the U.S. in the past, have faith in the Good Neighborliness of the U.S.-such countries as Mexico and Chile. While they may differ with the U.S. over occasional issues, within the framework of Pan-Americanism they are friendly collaborators. Their attitude was expressed last week in a prompt rebuke administered to Argentina's Ruiz Guiñazú by Chile's Foreign Minister, Juan Bautista Rossetti, who issued the first call for the Conference. Although handicapped by a headless Government at home and weather-eyeing an Argentine customs-union proposal, Rossetti declared: "America is one. There...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE AMERICAS: United We Stand | 1/19/1942 | See Source »

...Without a word of debate passed a resolution calling upon affiliated bodies within A.F. of L. to "take prompt action whenever racketeering, wrongdoing or other crime is engaged in by any of their officers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: United Family | 10/27/1941 | See Source »

...Jersey Standard's tough president, William S. Parish, spokesman for all of the U.S. companies, answered Cordell Hull's proposal with a flat No. He recalled that Mr. Hull himself had insisted, as recently as last year, that expropriation amounted to outright confiscation unless "adequate, effective and prompt compensation" was paid. Real-politiker finally persuaded Mr. Hull that "international law" was not always compatible with Good Neighbor necessities. But Mr. Parish stood firm on the high ground that Hull had once occupied: he demanded arbitration followed by restitution or full payment...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: OIL: Face-Saving Dilemma | 10/20/1941 | See Source »

...move supplementing the organization work now being done by Cambridge citizens anxious to prepare their city for prompt fire, first aid, and police action in case of a bombing, President Conant yesterday appointed a Committee of Civilian Defense to integrate Harvard's defense work with that of Cambridge...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harvard to Organize For Local Air Defense | 10/7/1941 | See Source »

...After the Nazis had arrested several Bolivians in Germany in reprisal for Bolivia's prompt squashing of an attempted Nazi-led coup in Bolivia (TIME, July 28) Bolivia's Foreign Minister Alberto Ostria Gutierrez warned that his country could play the same game, that there were 5,000 German nationals in Bolivia...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LATIN AMERICA: The Axis & The Hemisphere | 8/11/1941 | See Source »

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