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...that the tough talk had started well ahead of schedule. It was not very impressive to begin with. Fortnight ago Reich Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop launched an attack on the Monroe Doctrine on the eve of the Havana Conference (TIME, July 15). Last week Secretary of State Cordell Hull, before setting out for Havana with eight trade, monetary, agricultural and political experts, slapped back at another attempt to make trouble. From Costa Rica, Guatemala and Nicaragua came reports that Dr. Otto Reinebeck, German Minister to the Central American Republics, had circulated a note of warning among the small...
...distinction of Cordell Hull's term as Secretary of State has been his personal success at Latin-American Conferences. Almost singlehanded he saved the seventh Pan American Conference of 1933 at Montevideo, unobtrusively calling on Latin-American Foreign Ministers with a personal good-neighborliness that disarmed suspicion. When Mr. Hull flared up at the new Nazi attempt to influence the Conference, he used a tough word: he called it "intimidation." There was no theory, he said, on which any nation could attack the Havana meeting; there was no reason for any nation to attack the sovereign rights...
Cartel. The character of the U. S. delegation made it plain that the U.S. viewed the biggest Nazi threat in South America as economic. No U.S. military or naval experts were going. With Secretary Hull went Adolf Berle, Assistant Secretary of State, creator of the cartel plan by which the U. S. would block Nazi pressures on South America...
...Nicaragua and El Salvador, delivered a note to the five latter Central American Republics (Panama was excluded), warning them that the conference would move Western Hemisphere nations away from neutrality, that the Nazis would retaliate (by unannounced means) should the delegates act against Germany. And Secretary of State Cordell Hull, head of the U. S. delegation to Havana, promptly barked back...
...Panama American defiantly applauded Hull's action, praised him for "tweaking the nose of Reinebeck, who is notorious for his interference with matters not his concern...