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...Buenos Aires, Messrs. Hull & Welles stood on its deck, acting once more as advance men for Franklin Roosevelt's personal appearance. On the pier a tall professorial man with a long stiff neck and high stiff collar frantically waved his hat. He was their host, Dr. Carlos Saavedra Lamas, Argentine Foreign Minister, who 24 hours before had been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for 1936 and who was so delighted that he could hardly wait to come aboard to receive their congratulations...
Added to all these there was, of course, Nobel Prizeman Saavedra Lamas, one of the most important and one of the most difficult to handle. Dr. Saavedra is a rich man of excellent family and he married the daughter of a former President. He was educated in a Jesuit school, went to Paris to complete his education, traveled much in Europe, went home to be trained in the anti-U. S. atmosphere of Argentine diplomatic circles. He endowed and sat in a chair of labor legislation at the University of Buenos Aires. In 1932, when General Agustin P. Justo became...
...began at Montevideo three years ago when Secretary Hull showed him studied consideration, sent flowers to Senora Saavedra. It continued through the settlement of the Chaco dispute which Dr. Saavedra made entirely his own baby, even refusing election as President of the League of Nations Assembly to do so. Since Dr. Saavedra was adamant in rejecting all peace proposals which he did not originate, the U. S. delegate on the peace commission, Spruille Braden. carefully left the limelight to the distinguished Doctor. Again for the sake of his goodwill, the scene of the present conference was set at Buenos Aires...
Awarded. To Carl von Ossietzky, German pacifist and onetime publisher; and Carlos Saavedra Lamas. Argentine Foreign Minister: Nobel Peace Prizes for 1935 and 1936; in Oslo, Norway. Ailing in a Berlin hospital after spending three years in Nazi concentration camps, von Ossietzky declined to comment on his award, which infuriated Adolf Hitler...
...Tony" Eden to crack all the Sanctions he was a leader in creating few months ago. Considering the British chiefly as customers for Argentine meat, supposing they meant all Mr. Eden had said against Italy, and being anxious to oblige such good customers, Argentine Foreign Minister Dr. Carlos Saavedra Lamas last month made the original demand that the League Assembly of 53 nations meet in Geneva this week and vote rousingly against Il Duce. Last week Dr. Saavedra was furious and in Buenos Aires refused to be interrogated in the Argentine Chamber. His aides waved their hands and said...