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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...this effort he is hampered by the divided U.S. policy and the clash of State Department personalities. At Chapultepec, the nations of the Western Hemisphere agreed to meet soon thereafter at Rio de Janeiro for two purposes: 1) to draft the treaty for the Act of Chapultepec (which was a wartime agreement); 2) to discuss an inter-hemispheric defense agreement under which the U.S. would undertake to furnish standardized arms to all Western Hemisphere nations. So far, Spruille Braden, unwilling to let Argentina in, has refused to set a date for it. Until that conference is held, Latins will still...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FOREIGN RELATIONS: Career Man's Mission | 12/2/1946 | See Source »

...urgent had been the summons that Jacob Surits, suave, goateed Soviet Ambassador to Brazil, remembered only after boarding the plane that he had to be in Rio for the big Embassy reception on Nov. 7. At Belém he turned back for Rio, set off again for the U.S. after the party. His mission, like that of other Soviet diplomats in Latin America*: to get orders from Foreign Minister Molotov. For Molotov it was a chance to take stock of the first year and a half of the new Stalinist line in Latin America...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE HEMISPHERE: Visit to Molotov | 12/2/1946 | See Source »

Brazilians got their first look at a grandiose project that might alter the shape of postwar capitalism. In Rio last week Nelson Rockefeller, optimistic, zealous salesman of Good Neighborliness, onetime U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for Latin American Affairs, took the wraps off a brand-new idea called the American International Association for Economic and Social Development...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BRAZIL: Enlightened Capitalism | 11/25/1946 | See Source »

...aviation ventures below the Rio Grande, Braniff Airway's Tom Braniff has increased the odds against himself by sounding off against Mexican Government officials and by competing with Pan American Airways. Last week the odds caught up with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AVIATION: Braniff Grounded in Mexico | 11/11/1946 | See Source »

...homeland, Indio shot up rapidly in Mexican movies, was soon a leading actor. From a friendly, peripatetic U.S. script writer, with whom he became buddies, Indio learned story technique. In time he became the country's leading director, turned out the enormously successful films that Dolores del Rio made in Mexico after leaving Hollywood. For three years, Indio and Dolores were always seen together. Now they are only socially polite...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: El Indio | 11/11/1946 | See Source »

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