Word: rio
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...round of entertainments scheduled for his U.S. visit should not weary him. He is not only an indefatigable party-thrower but a devoted partygoer. At a state ball during his visit to Rio two years ago, he made the gesture of leaving with President Dutra at midnight, then returned, removed his presidential sash, and sambaed till dawn...
...charges against the U.S. had cited cases of peonage and labor under forced contracts in Maine, Connecticut, Texas, Arkansas, Georgia and California. They had revealed that thousands of "wetbacks" (i.e., Mexican laborers who wade the Rio Grande in search of work in the U.S.) lived in squalor and poverty, sometimes were paid as little as $8 a week...
...which sends a few hundreds of thousands of workers across the country under admittedly evil conditions, with the Soviet system of concentration camp slavery which means death to millions . . . The Mexican wetbacks entered the United States illegally to work on farms and orchards. They swam the Rio Grande seeking this 'slavery.' But there is no record of anyone crossing any body of water to reach a Russian concentration camp. To pretend that the two evils are at all comparable is to perpetrate an enormous and dangerous falsehood...
...plotters' names surprised nobody; but the committee went on to demand that teeth be riveted into existing inter-American agreements so that the Rio Reciprocal Assistance Treaty of 1947 could be used instantly, any time. The hemisphere's key defense document, the Rio Treaty is similar to the North Atlantic pact; it unites the American nations on a one-for-all basis, and provides for the use of political and economic sanctions -or joint use of hemisphere armed forces. Aiding & Fomenting. Upholding charges (TIME, Jan. 16) of the Haitian government that the Dominican Republic had helped organize...
...prevent that, the U.S. was willing to speed up the procedure for using the Rio Treaty, and thus provide trigger-quick retaliation against anybody disturbing hemisphere peace...