Word: chapultepec
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...immediate point he was specific; he hoped, as did Vandenberg, "to proceed with a negotiation of a mutual assistance treaty in accordance with the Act of Chapultepec at the projected Rio Conference. But we do not wish to proceed without Argentina, and neither our Ambassador nor any official of the State Department is of the opinion that Argentina has yet complied with the commitments which she as well as the other American Republics at Chapultepec agreed to carry...
...Nazi war machine expired, the U.S. heart seemed to soften. In February 1945, the U.S. met with other American republics in Mexico City to open the gate for U.N. Argentina was not invited. The Act of Chapultepec, however, pointed the way back into the fold. Argentina might regain the family bosom if she 1) agreed to a system of collective security in the Western Hemisphere, 2) wiped out Axis commercial influence and deported Axis spies, 3) declared war on the Axis...
Belatedly Argentina went through the paper process of declaring war. But before she had fulfilled any of the other conditions of Chapultepec, the U.S. hastily thrust out a forgiving lollipop: recognition of the new Argentine regime. Then, at San Francisco, the U.S. found itself sponsoring Argentine membership...
Harassment. The months between Chapultepec and San Francisco marked the period of supreme vacillation in U.S. policy toward the Argentine. The real reasons for the sudden shifts probably will not be known until the official documents are published years hence. But after San Francisco, the policy shifted again...
...this effort he is hampered by the divided U.S. policy and the clash of State Department personalities. At Chapultepec, the nations of the Western Hemisphere agreed to meet soon thereafter at Rio de Janeiro for two purposes: 1) to draft the treaty for the Act of Chapultepec (which was a wartime agreement); 2) to discuss an inter-hemispheric defense agreement under which the U.S. would undertake to furnish standardized arms to all Western Hemisphere nations. So far, Spruille Braden, unwilling to let Argentina in, has refused to set a date for it. Until that conference is held, Latins will still...