Word: ricas
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...little time in applying Resolution 35. When the U.S. recognized the military regime of General Manuel Odria, militarists up & down the hemisphere figured that they had a green light. Three days later, the Venezuelan army ousted President Rómulo Gallegos. Chile had already squelched a military plot; Costa Rica was now invaded from Nicaragua. Last week, Guatemala's liberal government was on the alert for a new move-the second in three weeks-by the military. In neighboring El Salvador, military men knocked over the regime of bumbling Salvador Castaneda Castro...
Meanwhile, the Council of the Organization of American States had met in an emergency session to consider the invasion of Costa Rica. Daniels was the U.S. representative. He dragged his feet until convinced that enthusiasm for the newly ratified Rio pact was general and genuine...
...First Test. At week's end Daniels was in Costa Rica as U.S. representative of the O.A.S.'s four-man investigating commission. Despite his lack of enthusiasm, the new peace machinery seemed certain to pass its first test impressively-so impressively, in fact, that Acting Secretary of State Lovett considered urging the O.A.S. to set up a similar system for consultation among the American republics on concrete measures to support democratic governments before they fall...
...invasion of Costa Rica (TIME, Dec. 20) moved quietly through its second week, Costa Ricans relaxed. The invaders were going nowhere. The defending troops were deployed but had not yet launched a counterattack; it seemed unlikely that they would have to bother...
...Washington, Costa Rica promptly invoked the newly ratified .Treaty of Rio de Janeiro (for hemisphere defense), and presented its case at a special meeting of the Organization of American States. Nobody needed to be told that if the Costa Rican trouble dragged on, it might easily develop into a general Caribbean conflict...