Word: saavedras
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...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...
...historic dominance by Great Britain, 2) Argentine fears of U. S. imperialism, 3) Argentine insistence that the U. S. lift its 1930 ban on imports of pampas beef, 4) Argentina's across-the-table system of bilateral trade, 5) Argentina's able, egotistic Foreign Minister, Saavedra Lamas...
...when on a peak in Darien, Vasco Nunez de Balboa, after slogging through malarial jungles, emerged in sight of the Pacific. First man to hit upon the idea of an interoceanic canal was Balboa's companion, Alvaro de Saavedra Ceron...
...great Republic of the North," cried Dr. Saavedra Lamas, "is a magnificent spectacle of human progress, continues to be in the contemporary world a creation that has never been surpassed in its political genius!" Monroe held, among other things, that a "republic is and always will be the invariable form of all governments in America," postulated the Argentine Foreign Minister. "Five countries of America, including our own. are about to elect new governments.*... It is NOT true that our Constitutions must be changed to adapt them to certain idealisms! . . . Monroe set up a retaining dam against any tendency ... to disturb...
Doughty General Agustin Justo, President of Argentina, has long been running this Republic in a manner smacking of Dictatorship. While still acting as Foreign Minister, Dr. Saavedra Lamas expects soon to retire. Not being in sympathy with Dictatorship, he gave the Monroe Doctrine a clever new twist, managed to make a speech which created a Latin-American sensation and which hardly could have been delivered in General Justo's Argentina had it been less clever...