Word: rios
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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After a week of eager expectations, the President, his family and official party were set for the 4,700-mile flight to Rio. The sleek new presidential DC-6, Independence, had been stocked with rubber life rafts, machetes, canned rations, rifles, insect repellents and parachutes-just in case of trouble...
...Prediction. At the Rio Conference (see The Hemisphere), Morinigo's Foreign Minister, Dr. Federico Chaves, fresh from dining with Perón, .said that the elections, which Morinigo had been promising for six years, would be held immediately. He could and did predict the winner: the Colorado Party, headed by Morinigo. In this forecast, plain Paraguayans could find one consolation: if the rebels had won the war, it would only have meant swapping one dictatorship for another...
...down the slippery stone corridors of the Hotel Quitandinha, delegates gossiped, shook hands, lobbied and told stories. The tanned and grey chief of the U.S. delegation was hardly seen in public. Yet, despite his efforts to push Latin leaders to the forefront, George Marshall dominated the Rio Inter-American Defense Conference...
...visit by Evita Peron. But his forthright explanation of why the U.S. has to put economic aid to devastated Europe ahead of help to Latin America, his emphasis on the individual as opposed to the state, won helpful praise from the Vatican, mollified the Latins, and marked a Rio turning point...
Latin Liking. The Secretary got home for a 2 o'clock lunch and a quiet 7:30 dinner. For exactly one hour after dinner, unless there were guests, he played Chinese checkers with Mrs. Marshall.*Then he retired. At week's end he lunched in Rio with President Dutra. Another day he turned up unexpectedly at a Quitandinha horse show named in his honor "The General Marshall Trials." Mrs. Marshall bought him a bag of popcorn. He handed it right down to two small boys who had been staring at Irm for all they were worth from beneath...