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...training equipment. Nevertheless, the pact had been the sole and bitter subject of debate in the Uruguayan Chamber since May 7 and was finally approved only after an angry session ending at 5 a.m. Opposition came exclusively from those extremist groups which have increasingly become the source of anti-yanqui agitation in Latin America: Communists and right-wing nationalists working together...
...years ago, a group of Argentine army officers staged the "colonels' revolution" that brought Juan Perón to power. Since then, yanqui-baiting Dictator Perón has become the most familiar Latin American figure to the U.S.-and in some ways the most alarming. How is Perón doing after a decade in power? Last week TIME's Buenos Aires Correspondent Ramelle MaCoy reported...
...people that American refusal to pay a "fair" price for tin is at the root of their ecomic disaster. A flood of Communist and nationalist propaganda ruined our bid for a defense treaty with Mexico. Throughout Central and South America, in fact, politicians have found that denouncing the Yanqui pays off in votes. If such a hate drive continues, we may soon be playing Britain to Latin America's Iran: we shall find government reluctance to part with vital raw material backed up by surly public opinion...
...that is openly hostile to the U.S., Argentina's mild, modest Ambassador Hipólito Jesus Paz, 35, has made an impressive number of friends during his 18 months in Washington. He got along so well that his boss, Foreign Minister Jerónimo Remorino, called him "the yanqui." Last month Remorino called Paz home, presumably to fire him. On his arrival, Remorino told Paz: "Young man, you've come to take your test...
...Figures. Old enough to have fought as a major in the revolution, Ruiz Cortines has made a lifelong career as a bureaucrat. Back in 1914 he worked as a paymaster; one of the charges leveled at him during the recent election campaign was that he had been on the yanqui payroll during the occupation of Veracruz that year by U.S. armed forces. Ruiz Cortines, who refuted the charges, still wears a clerkish air, and takes a bureaucrat's professional pleasure in going through a good statistical report...