Word: ruiz
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Apparent Failure. As the crucial week began, Argentina's Foreign Minister Enrique Ruiz Guiñazú was balky, Chile's Juan Bautista Rossetti was out of line. These two argued persistently against a unanimous open diplomatic break with the Axis. Despite new air-cooling in the Itamaraty Palace, delegates got so hot under the collar that a Thursday "deadline" was set for all to make up their minds...
From flowered arbors came soft laughter and then the swirl and rustle of silk and satin as Brazilian debutantes swayed to the congas and rumbas of a red-coated samba band. Mothers and grandmothers danced, too. Ruiz Guiñazú's strict Argentine social code frowns on such informality. But he watched. Occasionally he tapped his foot, and smiled...
...Ruiz Guiñazú wanted to be gay, and he wanted to be a statesman. He seemed to be inclined to get Argentina in accord with the other nations. He could see how the dream shone. But he was not his own master; he was only the servant of Argentina and Argentina's Acting President Ramon S. Castillo...
Apparent Triumph. By mid-week Sumner Welles looked bored. But after a private three-hour session with Chile's Rossetti, Argentina's Ruiz Guiñazú, Peru's Alfredo Solf y Muro, and Brazil's Oswaldo Aranha, Mr. Welles was jubilant. "If I had been earlier I would have ordered champagne for you all," he told waiting newsmen...
...diplomat's usual generalities, Mr. Welles spoke specifically of 218,600 tons of tin plate allocated for Latin America, new allocations of "20 essential agricultural and industrial chemicals," besides farm equipment, iron and steel products. When he spoke of the "shibboleth of classic neutrality," Señor Ruiz Guiñazú wiped his face with his handkerchief. When the Under Secretary concluded with a ringing declaration that democratic ideals "will yet triumph," Señor Ruiz Guiñazú fanned himself, being careful to use a scratch pad and not a copy (translated into Spanish...