Word: yanqui
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South of Panama last week, Yanqui prestige fell steadily. In spite of chill disapproval from the U.S., General Farrell's militarist, Argentina-first government basked and blustered in official recognition from Bolivia, Chile, Paraguay. The U.S. Good Neighbor policy was not yet in acute danger. But proud Argentina, traditionally jealous of the U.S., had made a beginning on a small Good Neighbor policy...
...when Francisco was six years old the Spanish Navy sailed out on its brave, hopeless campaign against the upstart Yanqui tinpots and presently ceased to be a going concern. Having no warships to speak of, the Spanish Government decided to shut the Naval Academy down; 14-year-old Francisco went instead to the military academy in the Alcazar of Toledo. If he had followed his planned career he might have been a captain or admiral by 1936, when rebel naval officers were heaved over the sides of their warships by Loyalist crews...
Wealthy ex-Smuggler Juan March (el Ultimo Pirato del Mediterráneo-also called el Yanqui), whose gold financed Francisco Franco's Fascist triumph over Republican Spain, once said of himself: "I can smell money." Now nearing 90, his nostrils are still sensitive. Last week they sensed a dismal future for the regime Juan March had helped to power...
Oscar Schnake, one of the founders of the Chilean Socialist Party. From a red-hot Socialist campaigner against "Yanqui imperialism" he developed into a strong Pan American when he returned last winter from a visit to Washington as Minister of National Development...
...dinners served mineral water from the hills of Mexico. He spoke no Spanish, said he was too old to learn. But he always listened affably to Mexican oratory, of which he understood not a word. Mexicans soon got used to seeing him smilingly applaud their thunderous speeches denouncing imperialismo yanqui...