Word: rams
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Disparities. A friendship pact in 1941 marked a new and closer liaison between Portugal and Spain. Since then frequent conferences between Franco and Salazar may have led to military understandings. Present at most of them has been Spain's gadabout Foreign Minister Ramón Serrano Suñer. But Portugal, besides relying on British sea power for protection of colonies in Africa, India and the South Seas, has had friendship and trade pacts with Britain since the 17th Century. The Portuguese have also watched Brazil, which broke from the mother country in 1823, move toward war against...
...Munich's advance man in Prague, had dropped out of sight. David (now Viscount) Margesson, then Tory Party ringmaster, now a General Electric director, admitted: "Public opinion demanded there should be changes." In Madrid Sir Samuel Hoare, Home Secretary Munich supporter, welcomed at the British Embassy Foreign Minister Ramón Serrano Suñer, who that day also visited the German and Italian Ambassadors...
Last December handsome, dictatorial Ramón S. (for Nothing) Castillo imposed on neutral Argentina a "state of siege7' forbidding the public discussion of international affairs. Last week Argentine free speech both lost and found a champion...
...Ramón Castillo was not likely to lift his state of siege or change his ways unless the strongest pressures were put upon him. But already pressures were rising. Since his regime has chosen to renounce hemisphere cooperation, Argentina has faced fuel shortages, a mounting cost of living, labor unrest, an alarming budgetary outlook. Argentina's financial well-being today depends largely on the availability of foreign capital, which, with changing world conditions, might quickly flow elsewhere...
...come out of the holes made by our bullets. That's what I'd do, by God, that's what I'd do. Then . . . you know what I'd do? I'd give the motor everything it had, and I'd ram the Goddamn troop-carrying aircraft, that's what...