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...line up "a solid bloc of votes" for the forthcoming world security conference in San Francisco. Alarmed shushes greeted this un-bagging of an unseemly cat, which was all the more noticeable since Minister Velloso had flown up from Rio with U.S. Secretary of State Edward R. Stettinius...
...Stettinius got off to an unhappy start, wound up the first sessions with a happy bang. Before the conference opened, he unfortunately committed the kind of blunders which often offend Latin Americans, sometimes make them think that the U.S. simply does not bother to learn its way around...
...Guatemala City's airport, Mr. Stettinius blithely asked for "the President." (Guatemala has no President just now-he fled before a revolution four months ago.) The Secretary did not improve matters by professing not to know that his State Department had just decided to recognize revolutionary Guatemala's hated enemy, Salvadoran Dictator Osmin Aguirre. But Ed Stettinius got what he was after, persuaded Guatemala's Foreign Minister Enrique Muñoz Meany and Finance Minister Gabriel Orellana Hijo to accompany him to Mexico City...
...Stepping from his four-engine transport at Mexico City's airport, Mr. Stettinius read a statement prepared by an aide: "The United States looks upon Mexico as a good "neighbor, a strong upholder of democratic traditions in this hemisphere, and a country we are proud to call our own." When "our own" popped out, Mr. Stettinius gasped, read bravely on. One of his functionaries hastily tried to repair the damage to Mexican pride, asked newsmen to make it read: "our friend...
Biggest delegation (39 accredited) came from the U.S., officially headed by Secretary of State Edward Reilly Stettinius Jr., fresh from his triumphs in Moscow. But before Stettinius arrived, the U.S. delegation was mustered by Assistant Secretary Nelson A. Rockefeller, who, having labored long and lovingly, is now beginning to know his way around in the Latin American vineyard. Of the other nations, Mexico, the host, had 36 delegates, Cuba 23. Nearly all sent their Foreign Ministers, with technical aides for facts-&-figures discussions, and plenty of decorative women for dancing and dinner parties...