Word: rios
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...longtime delegate to the League of Nations and later Ambassador to the Vatican, Dr. Ruiz had stopped in Washington for talks with Secretary of State Cordell Hull and Under Secretary Sumner Welles. Hardly had he taken office than a report from Montevideo, across the broad mouth of the Rio de la Plata, indicated that the toughest defense problem between the U.S. and Argentina would be solved...
Ever since Agent Rieth landed in Rio de Janeiro one day last March in an Italian plane from Rome, newsmen have been watching him. From their cabled reports, and from his diplomatic record, it was easy enough to figure out what he was up to in Manhattan...
First thing Agent Rieth did when he arrived in Rio three months ago was to call a meeting of German consuls in South America, set up a commission composed of two Japanese, an Italian, a German, to look after Axis interests in Latin America. A subsidiary, the Inter-American Abstention Committee, was also formed. Purpose: to keep in touch with U.S. isolationists, encourage those who would hinder U.S. aid to Britain...
...projects have come to happy fruition. Worst boner was the launching of a $500,000 advertising campaign in Latin-American newspapers to persuade tourists to visit the U.S. The newspapers were carelessly chosen. Fat advertisements went to Axis-sympathizing papers while U.S. sympathizer like Buenos Aires' Critica and Rio de Janeiro's Vangnarda were neglected. Worst of all, in view of the high rate of dollar exchange, asking Latin Americans to tour the U.S. was a horrid joke...
...produce sound results, no one could say last week. Most likely result was that Argentina. Brazil and Chile would soon sicken of all propaganda. Some two months ago good-natured Foreign Minister Oswaldo Aranha of Brazil quipped to a U.S. visitor: "The next good-will mission that arrives in Rio, Brazil will declare war on the United States...