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Recounting a little usually forgotten history, the economist described Brazilian President Kubitschek's original conception of the Alliance as "Operation America." Out of it grew the Quitandinha Conference of 1954, in which first proposed the idea of Latin American countries cooperating in a partnership for sustained economic growth...
...delegates had dispersed into committees to thresh out compromises when a U.S. Congressman from Pittsburgh, James G. Fulton, 51, strolled into the bar at conference headquarters, the luxurious Quitandinha Hotel, and gathered a group of reporters around him. "I want to talk about financial aid from my country to Latin America," he announced quietly. What Fulton talked about, then and later, went off like a land mine under the official U.S. policy and its main author, George Humphrey...
Guest List. The conference windup was all but lost in the fun. Delegates gathered at the fog-bound Quitandinha Hotel for one last session. That afternoon, in the soft-green-walled second-story "treaty room" of the Itamarati, they signed their names in the blue leather-bound volume entitled "Treaty of Rio de Janeiro." George Marshall arrived last and wrote his first initial so large that it had to be blotted before he could continue. Sol Bloom was barely prevented from signing for Brazil...
Delegates were far more likely to forget their conference disputes than the fantastic Babylon-in-Brazil in which their sessions had been held. The Swiss-styled Quitandinha Hotel sits in a fogbound mountain valley with little to see but man-made pools, lawns, terraces and a horse ring. Syrup-slow dining-room service had queered routine entertaining. Bar prices ($2.45 for a Scotch) dried up most sociable drinking. Griped Ecuador's Foreign Minister José Trujillo, worried about his bills after a revolution at home: "It costs $64 a day to live; it costs extra to laugh." Some delegates...
Chicken & Cake. Last week, this monotony dissolved in a round of official parties. Brazil's Foreign Minister, Conference Chairman Raúl Fernandes, gave a dinner and a buffet extravaganza for 1,000 in the Quitandinha's Dom Pedro I room. Guests had chicken, lobster, 20 kinds of cake, 168 bottles of Scotch, and watched Brazilian women curtsy to Dom Pedro III, pretender to Brazil's non-existent throne (the party's cost: $5,000). This week, with party after party set for the Truman visit, delegates' wives would have no more time for bridge...