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...great day for the Americas. The man whom Mexico sent on a visit to the U.S.-her Foreign Minister-was in sober truth as great a statesman and as big a figure in hemisphere affairs as any to be found in Washington. Ezequiel Padilla was not only the man whose eloquence swayed the Rio Conference to support the United Nations; he was the symbol of the coming of age of the American republics...
...appointed Foreign Minister in 1940 he registered his personal wealth-as the law requires-as $105,000.) His wife by his second marriage comes from a wealthy family. His home is at 84 Avenida Jalisco near the suburban heights of Chapultepec Park. He is today, not only a statesman, but a man of the world, popular in Mexican society...
...that point Winston Churchill, looking around for new administrative talent, cabled Casey an offer to become Minister of State for Great Britain's War Cabinet in the Middle East. It was the first time Britain had offered to take a Dominion statesman into the Home Government. Minister Casey was to replace Captain Oliver Lyttelton (Britain's new Minister of Production) in the vital liaison job in Cairo...
Rumania's peasant leader Juliu Maniu and famed elder statesman Constantin Bratianu did their barking in the form of a memorandum to Premier Antonescu. "We must take precautions," they said, "so that our frontiers are protected and see to it that we regain Transylvania, of which we have been robbed. . . . If you are not convinced that the German Army is able to defeat the frequently annihilated Russian Army without the few precious Rumanian divisions, then you cannot believe at all in the final victory of Germany." A few days later Maniu supplied Antonescu with "proof" of Hungary...
First top-rank statesman to espouse the now-famous Malvern program (TIME, Jan. 20, 1941) is Sir Stafford Cripps, the No. 2 man in Churchill's Cabinet and leader of the British Government in the House of Commons. Last week he said in Britain's Methodist Recorder that, if the churches will adopt the Malvern resolutions and really implement them, they will be playing an enormous part in the post-war world...