Word: rios
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Next week, in the salmon-pink Boite of Quitandinha, a hotel and onetime gambling casino in the cool mountains north of Rio, the top brass of hemispheric diplomacy will meet to put the Chapultepec agreement into permanent, postwar treaty form. Secretary of State George Marshall will be there; so will Republican Senator Arthur Vandenberg, Warren Austin, U.S. representative to the U.N. and Texas Democrat Senator Tom Connally. President Truman might show...
...Rio Conference will heal some old sores, may reopen others. Scheduled for war's end, the conference was summarily torpedoed a year ago by headstrong Assistant Secretary of State Spruille Braden on the ground that the U.S. had no business sitting down at the same table with Argentina. The scorching, inside battle that Braden's bull-in-china-shop action precipitated among U.S. diplomats made confusion of the U.S.'s Latin American policy, which was not too clear in the first place. Now that Braden and ex-Ambassador George Messersmith, his chief antagonist...
Whatever happens at Rio, one man stands to gain. He is sharp-eyed Joaquim Rolla, owner of the Quitandinha Hotel. Anxious to stamp a legitimate "Quitandinha" dateline on the deliberations, Rolla got the Brazilian Government to install a postoffice in the building. Recently his pressagent, dining a group of reporters at the lakeside chalet, hopped up and cried, "Wait a minute, gentlemen." The reporters, forks in midair, waited. "Remember," he shouted, "this is to be the Quitandinha Conference...
Fernandes' wrinkled parchment skin, his few wisps of grey hair, his stooped walk, belie his energy and drive. When he stands against a window in his second-floor office in Rio's ornate Itamarati Palace, it seems almost possible to see through his fragile frame. Yet Fernandes tackles a diplomatic fight with all the enthusiasm of a young attache...
Strong Friend. For Fernandes the Rio conference will be chiefly significant for what it contributes to Pan-Americanism. Said he recently: "Under the impact of war, Pan-Americanism has developed from an association with strictly economic and cultural ends to an institution with political activity . . . imposing upon us a constant watchfulness and a wider understanding. The first factor of success in this new task is the friendship we must keep on cultivating zealously with the sister republics . . . and with the U.S., that proven friend...