Word: pueyrredon
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...Rotund and glossy Argentine Delegate Honorio Pueyrredon was first to potently outpop. His vastly rich and extensively land owning family enable him to flout whom he will with impunity. At the first session of the Assembly of the League of Nations, in Geneva, he arose and stalked out when Argentine interests seemed threatened. He stands high in the ranks of the strong, opposition, "Radical" party of Argentina. He has maintained himself as Ambassador at Washington by sheer prestige and almost in despite of Argentine President Marcelo de Alvear...
Since the opening of the present Conference, Seiior Pueyrredon has unalterably insisted it should make some definite pronouncement against high tariff barriers-that is to say, against high U. S. tariffs. By hard, driving diplomacy he got such a pronouncement tentatively recognized for insertion into the preamble of a stuffed-shirt treaty draft reorganizing the Pan-American Union.-Last week U. S. pressure resulted in the striking out of Pueyr-redon's preamble clause. From Buenos Aires came, allegedly, instructions that he should knuckle under and sign the treaty draft...
...Seiior Pueyrredon's action was a Rooseveltian gesture. At one stroke he resigned as head of the Argentine Delegation and as Ambassador to Washington...
...Angel Gallardo expressed his "amazement," and President de Alvear openly flayed Senor Pueyrredon for "such conduct." Both knew that with an Argentine presidential election scheduled for this spring, Senor Pueyrredon had made the grandest of grandstand plays to convince the electorate that he alone is of sufficiently tough presidential timber to stand up for Argentina, even against the U. S. With Outpopper Pueyrredon thus self-eliminated, the treaty reorganizing the Pan-American Union was submitted in innocuous form to the plenary session of the Conference...
Chief Argentine Delegate Dr. Honorio Pueyrredon, Argentine Ambassador to the U. S. created a mild stir by proposing a Pan-American treaty of commerce leveling tariff barriers between the signatory states. Naturally this idea went glimmering when Mr. Hughes intimated firmly that no such proposal had, to his knowledge, a place in the set Conference agenda (TIME...