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...fear of Axis aggression and the past nine years of friendly U.S. relations, seemed to share a feeling that this time the U.S. was not a hypocritical boss but a Good Neighbor who had been attacked. Sumner Welles took a seat on the opposite side of the hall from Señor Ruiz...
Brazil's President Getulio Vargas opened the Conference with a speech calling for "the most solid and powerful alliance of free and sovereign nations that the history of humanity has ever known." Señor Ruiz Guiñazú began to fidget...
Sumner Welles stepped to the podium. In a long and carefully worded resume of Axis plans, promises and attacks, Sumner Welles explained the U.S. position. Mr. Welles gave figures on U.S. armament production: "45,000 military airplanes in the coming year; some 45,000 tanks; 600 merchant ships. ..." Señor Ruiz Guiñazú ran his finger around his collar...
Dismissing a 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...
...fourth. Mrs. Stanley Mortimer Jr., daughter of the late, great Dr. Harvey Cushing, tied with the late Motor Magnate Walter Chrysler's daughter, Mrs. Byron Foy, for second place. The rest of the ten, in order: Brazil's Senhora Rodman Arturo de Heeren, Mrs. Thomas Shevlin, Señora Felipe A. Espil (wife of the Argentine Ambassador to the U.S.), Mrs. Robert W. Miller of San Francisco, Mrs. Robert Emmet Sherwood, Cinemactress Rosalind Russell. Among the runners-up for places on the list were: Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt (3 votes), Gertrude Lawrence (6), Lily Pons...