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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Saludos Amigos (RKO-Radio-Disney) is a good-neighborly, Technicolor whimsey that has made Walt Disney one of South America's favorite North Americans. Shown first in South America, the film broke theater records; one audience in Rio de Janeiro screamed so loudly for an encore that another feature had to be halted in mid-reel and Saludos Amigos run off again...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, Jan. 25, 1943 | 1/25/1943 | See Source »

...science were popular. His courses often branched out into political discussions in any language that came to tongue. Last week Dr. Quintanilla, now Mexico's Minister to Moscow, offered the English-speaking world his ideas. In a book, A Latin American Speaks, he showed that south of the Rio Grande there are men who can not only look over the wall of pride & preju dice to North America, but east and west to the problems of the world...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Western Hemisphere League? | 1/18/1943 | See Source »

...outmoded. "The Monroe Doctrine, with its imperialistic connotations, is loaded with the kind of explosive that endangers the Pan-American structure. . . . The moment Monroe's distorted shadow enters a Pan-American Conference, the Good Neighbors disband. The silence made around the Monroe Doctrine at the historical meeting at Rio [in January 1942] is more eloquent than any indictment ever uttered against...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Western Hemisphere League? | 1/18/1943 | See Source »

...been plain & fancy Walter Winchell. The first three women he met in Brazil were former models and chorus girls who had married rich Brazilians. Since he brought only uniforms (he did not know where he was going when he first got his orders) and there are many occasions in Rio where officers appear in civilian clothes, he appeared at his first cocktail party in a white suit borrowed from a waiter. He has been to nightclubs only twice, but is constantly on the trail of hamburgers: "What wouldn't I give for a hamburger?" He spent Christmas...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Wincheil in Brazil | 1/11/1943 | See Source »

...Argentine yachtsman, Vito Dumas, sailed his 30-ft. yacht into the harbor at Wellington, New Zealand, last week after a lone voyage of 13,000 miles from the Rio de la Plata. Time: 159 days. His first question was: "Has Argentina declared war yet?" Told that Argentina was still anchored in neutral waters, lone Yachtsman Dumas made ready to sail on across the South Pacific to Chile...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Travel as Usual | 1/11/1943 | See Source »

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