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Continental Defense. In Mexico City, chronic church-robbers Ernesto Ruiz, Enrique Diaz and Salvador Monroy assured police that they always knelt before looting a chapel, added that they feared no heavenly wrath because: "God is too occupied with European affairs to pay any attention...
...aside for each chief of state, put under guard and furnished with on-the-house bottles of each President's favorite drink (Spanish "Fundador" brandy for Cuba's Fulgencio Batista, Scotch for Chile's Carlos Ibáñez, French cognac for Mexico's Adolfo Ruiz Cortines...
...reason for such determination was clearly shown on the first day. Before the medal-giving at the palace, Ike dropped in at the hotel, spent quiet half-hours with Mexico's Ruiz Cortines and Guatemala's Carlos Castillo Armas. After the conference was over, Ike planned to stay an extra day to talk with the other Presidents. For Ike, and for most of the other chiefs of state, those intimate talks were the heart of the meeting...
...three days last week the President met with Mexico's President Adolfo Ruiz Cortines and Canada's Prime Minister Louis St. Laurent amid such scenes of studied informality and good neighborliness. The meeting was held not in Washington but in White Sulphur Springs, W. Va., a watering place set amid the Alleghenies. There was no agenda, little protocol. A U.S. participant described one session of the talks...
...such, the meeting was successful. "It has been extremely nice," said St. Laurent, heading homeward. Mexico's Ruiz Cortines amplified that conclusion: "Because it was more human, also more genuine ... a new era in relations.'' The President of the U.S. bade goodbye to his guests: "May we do this again some time? I hope it was worthwhile...