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Apparent Triumph. By mid-week Sumner Welles looked bored. But after a private three-hour session with Chile's Rossetti, Argentina's Ruiz Guiñazú, Peru's Alfredo Solf y Muro, and Brazil's Oswaldo Aranha, Mr. Welles was jubilant. "If I had been earlier I would have ordered champagne for you all," he told waiting newsmen...
...Welles, President Vargas, Mexico's Ezequiel Padilla, Uruguay's Alberto Guani and others leading the fight for an open diplomatic rupture with the Axis gave way. If the U.S. Fleet had been bombarding Tokyo the result might have been different. It might also have been different if Chile's coming Presidential election were over, or if Argentina's Acting President had been less conservative...
...jacaranda wood table in Itamaraty Palace, the delegates gathered to announce the compromise resolution. His face ash-grey with disappointment, chainsmoking, Sumner Welles leaned forward with his head on three fingers of his left hand. From time to time he carefully mopped his forehead with a folded handkerchief. Chile's Rossetti continually and nervously smeared his hand over his sweaty face. Argentina's Ruiz Guiñazú clasped and unclasped his hands with a prayerlike gesture, toyed with a large ring on the third finger of his left hand...
...nearly three hours the delegates made speeches. Most violent was Chile's Rossetti. He literally screamed at calm, impassive Padilla, who had described the furor over "no podrán continuar" and "podrán no continuar" as a "drama of grammar." Chile had called the Conference in the first place, and now Chile's representative was one of the two most active in preventing unity. Argentina alone might not have gone through with intransigence; bolstered by Chile, her position was far stronger...
...Conference drew to a close this week passports were being handed to departing diplomats all over the Americas. Acting individually, instead of collectively, all 21 nations except Ecuador, Brazil, Chile and Argentina had severed diplomatic ties with the Axis. Ecuador, still worrying about its border dispute with Peru, and Brazil, still trying to have the ABC powers as well as the hemisphere act in concert, were ready for similar action. Chile was reported swinging into line at last. The dream of Pan American solidarity was still on its way to truth...