Word: ruiz
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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After being informed that all aboard were safe, sly Foreign Minister Aranha could not resist a diplomatic jest. "The plane was not overloaded," said he. "It was simply Ruiz Guiñazú's conscience that was heavy...
Senhor Aranha, U.S. Under Secretary of State Sumner Welles, Argentina's Foreign Minister Enrique Ruiz Guiñazú, Chile's Juan Bautista Rossetti, Peru's gaunt-jowled Alfredo Solf y Muro and Ecuador's pink-cheeked Julio Tobar Donoso, each to his own taste, drank up. Still rumpled and tired, the six men filed out to a bronze-studded table in the Itamaraty Palace's Saláo de Baile and before glaring camera lights and sleepy-eyed newsmen signed a protocol which settled-after 113 years of intermittent border warfare-the last major...
Venezuela's Foreign Minister Caracciolo Parra-Pérez used only one gesture as he rose to speak. He shook a furious finger under the pained nose of Ruiz...
...Short of Rupture. Given a ready-made opportunity to mount a high horse, Acting President Castillo repudiated the proposed declaration. Faithfully, Ruiz Guiñazú proposed a compromise-to change Article III's grammar so that the phrase "cannot continue diplomatic relations . . ." would read "can discontinue diplomatic relations. . . ." Thus Argentina would be released from any anti-Axis commitment...
...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...