Word: saavedra
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...many another bigwig to re-enact the ceremony. To the tiny town of San Nicolás de los Arroyos traveled the presidential train, complete with what Buenos Aires correspondents nicknamed "the candidates' coach." Aspirants in next year's presidential elections, including longtime Foreign Minister Carlos Saavedra Lamas, Jurist Leopoldo Melo, onetime President General Agustin P. Justo and Castillo-favorite Guillermo Rothe, eyed one another warily...
...phrase. Mistrust of U.S. intentions, plus mistrust of U.S. ability to take effective military action in the far south, had hitherto hampered U.S. efforts to get military cooperation from those countries which lie south of the Tropic of Capricorn. Last fortnight Argentina's Foreign Minister Emeritus, Carlos Saavedra Lamas, urged a conference of Foreign Ministers of the 21 American republics to agree on plans for common defense (TIME, June 16). Last week such a conference seemed hardly an immediate necessity, so well had diplomacy worked behind the scenes...