Index1

• Abell Montilla, José, 1410n
• Abreu, Silvio Froes de, 680
• Acheson, Dean, 159–160, 261–263, 415n , 522n , 1119n , 1129–1130, 1156–1188
• Acosta García, Julio, 5n
• Act of Chapultepec. See Chapultepec Conference: Final Act.
• Adrogué, Carlos A., 467
• Aguado, Enoc, 1216–1217
• Aguerrevere, Pedro, 1412
• Aguirre y Salinas, Osmín, 37–38, 39–40, 1065n
• Ahlers, J. D., 648n
• Alba, Pedro de, 179
• Alcantara Nabuco, Pedro de, 183n
• Alexander, Sir Harold R. L. G., 269
• Alexander, R. C., 278, 279
• Alfaro, Ricardo J., 1236–1237, 1256n
• Aliaga, Claudio, 784
• All America Cables and Radio, Inc., 525–526
• Allen, Henry E., 44
• Allen, Ward, 47
• Allied Control Council, 462–463, 474–476, 478, 486, 784
• Ameghino, César, 147, 520, 547–548
• Amézaga, Juan José, 1365n , 1366–1370, 1388n
• Anderson, Clinton P., 948, 955
• Anderson, Luis, 124
• Andrade, Víctor, 176–177, 579, 584–587
• Andreev, Nikolai A., 384n
• Angel Paz, Juan, 9
• Arey, Hawthorne, 1055n
• Argentina (see also under Chapultepec Conference: Preparations, etc.), 366–559
  • Agreement with United States regarding fuel and vegetable oil effected by exchange of notes May 9, 1945, 535, 549; with United States and Brazil regarding allocation of tires, tubes, and synthetic rubber, May 2, 1945, 555n
  • Axis activities, U.S. efforts to obtain the cooperation of the Argentine Government in combatting, 437–505
    • Arrest and release of Axis agents, and U.S. efforts to prosecute, 441–442, 457, 457–460, 472–473, 483–484, 485–486, 487, 495
    • Control of Axis interests:
      • Argentine actions and views of their achievements, 438–440, 447–448, 451–456, 463–464, 473–474, 486–487, 487–489; U.S. views, 463–464, 465–466, 467–471, 477–478, 481–483
      • Confidential List of Unsatisfactory Consignees, discussions concerning elimination of, 442–444, 460–462; British views, 460
      • Decrees and resolutions, and question of implementation of, 375–376, 439–440, 447, 451–453
      • German external assets in Argentina, U.S.–British–Soviet discussions concerning jurisdiction over, 462–463, 474–476, 478
      • Investigation by United States of records of certain spear head firms in Argentina, and of their principals in Germany, 490–492, 495–505
      • Proclaimed List: Deletion of Italian controlled concerns, question of, and British view, 445–447; evidence of Argentine dealings with firms on, 437–438, 440–441; reduction and withdrawal of, discussions concerning, and British views, 386n , 456, 461–462, 466, 486
    • German and Japanese communities in Argentina, 459–460
  • Chapultepec Conference: Adherence to Final Act, 371, 374; signing of Final Act, 151–153, 371, 372, 374; views on, 147, 150
  • Farrell Government, recognition by United States and other American Republics, and problems arising in connection with, 366–436
    • Actions of Farrell Government and political developments re moving obstacles to recognition (see also Recognition issue, infra), 367–372, 374–376; letter from Argentine Chargé in Washington to Director General of Pan American Union, 371–372
    • Arrival of a German submarine in an Argentine port, U.S. representations and Argentine action, 393–394, 404
    • Declaration of war against Axis nations, 370, 371, 372, 374
    • Elections, question of, 368–369
    • Evidence of Argentine compliance with commitments under Act of Chapultepec, 377–378, 379–385, 393–394, 404; visit by U.S. officials to reestablish contact, 378–379
    • Perón, Juan: Conversations with Ambassador Braden and Braden’s estimate of situation, 380–385, 385, 406–408, 508–511, 511–512; resignation of, 418; return to power, and Cabot’s analysis of subsequent situation in Argentina, 421–422, 422–424, 426–434; views on freedom of the press, 507, 508–512, 514–517
    • Recognition issue: Statement of U.S. policy, 366–367; consultations between United States and other American Re publics leading to extension of parallel recognition, 372–375, 376–377; Fiore’s view on con sequences of, 451
    • Relations with United States, deterioration of (see also Suggested actions, infra): Noncompliance with obligations assumed at time of recognition, U.S. views, 386–388, 402–403, 409–410, 412–415, 418; Perón’s views, 516; press attack on Ambassador Braden and sub sequent developments, 396–405; U.S. press reports critical of events in Argentina, and Argentine resentment of, 478–480, 489–490, 493–495
    • Signing of Final Act of Chapultepec, 151–153, 371, 372, 374
    • Suggested action by United States against Argentine Government: Consultation with other American Republics, 417, 419–420, 426; discussion of Argentine problem at Potsdam Conference, and proposed Anglo-American cooperation, 389–393, 395–396, 397–398, 405, 411–412, 415–417; question of withdrawal of recognition, 420, 424
  • Press censorship and treatment of press representatives in Argentina, U.S. attitude toward, 505–526
    • Censorship of American news agencies and correspondents in violation of obligations under Act of Chapultepec. See Treatment, etc., infra.
    • Control of local press, and government decrees on, 505, 507, 518–519, 523
    • Perón’s views, 507, 508–512, 514–517
    • Treatment of American correspondents and news media, and formal protest by United States, 506, 507–508, 511–514, 519–526
  • Recognition of the Revolutionary junta in Venezuela, 1415–1416
  • Trade and shipping with Argentina, U.S. policy concerning, 526–559
    • British meat and food purchases from Argentina, 538–540, 555–556
    • Coal shipments to Argentina, 547–548, 551, 558–559
    • Fuel and vegetable oils: Agreement between United States and Argentina, and Argentine compliance with, 533, 535, 549, 554–555, 556; U.S. press reaction to, 540–541
      • Munitions consigned to Argentine armed forces, and U.S. position on shipment of, 537, 540, 541, 543, 546, 556–557, 558
      • Shortage of, and request for allocation of ships, 528–530, 550–552
      • U.S. policy concerning trade with Argentina: Certificates of necessity system and consignee control procedures, 531, 532–533, 534, 536–537, 537–538, 544–546; import-export policy, 526–528, 530–531, 548–549, 550, 553, 558–559
  • Uruguayan proposal on human rights, Argentine position on, 198–203
• Arguello A., Marianno, 5
• Arguello Vargas, Mariano, 1226
• Arias, Arnulfo, 1240n , 1251, 1269
• Arias, Harmodio, 1240
• Armament distribution to American Republics. See Lend-Lease obligations.
• Armour, Norman, 1029
• Arneson, Stephen V., 1253
• Arnold, Gen. Henry H., 247, 1020n , 1131–1132
• Ascoli, Carlos d’, 1440n
• Ashley, Capt. John, 857
• Atlantic Charter, 10n , 51, 59, 130, 143, 975, 1173, 1174, 1424n
• Atterberry, Phil R., 239–240
• Atwood, Rollin S., 863, 1051–1053
• Austin, Warren R., 130n , 149
• Avalos, Col. Amaro, 552n
• Avila Camacho, Manuel, 3, 1109n , 1126–1127, 1142n , 1163–1167, 1175–1176, 1191n , 1192
• Axis business interests in certain Caribbean countries, U.S. concern regarding elimination of, (see also under Argentina, Brazil, Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Guatemala, Haiti, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama), 302–350
  • Confidential List of Unsatisfactory Consignees, question of elimination of, 303–304, 345
  • Proclaimed and Statutory Lists, question of maintenance of:
    • Anglo-American postwar policy, 302–303, 310–315, 345–346, 661–663
    • Considerations and recommendations, 302–304, 307–310, 344–345, 346–350
    • U.S. policy, 304–310, 310–345
    • Withdrawal of Proclaimed List throughout Western Hemisphere, 350
• Azcárate Rosell, Carlos, 969n
• Baldomir, Gen. Alfredo, 1388
• Barber, Willard F., 237–238, 941, 943, 950–952
• Barnett, Walker M., 1085, 1086
• Barón, José T., 965n
• Barreto, Col. João Carlos, 686
• Barrios, Gonzalo, 1404
• Bartlett, Col. Le Roy, Jr., 1195, 1201
• Bateman, Alan M., 584, 585, 803
• Batista, Fulgencio, 958n
• Batt, William L., 65, 682
• Belmonte Pabón, Maj. Elías, 572
• Belt, Guillermo, 6, 124, 179n , 896, 909–910, 959
• Beltrán, Pedro, 141, 229, 1314n
• Beltrán Prieto, Luis, 1404
• Benítez, Antonio Juan, 421
• Berger, David C., 438, 439, 441, 453
• Berle, Adolf A., 50n , 51–53, 122, 124, 145–146, 247, 914, 1245n
• Bernal, Umana, 876
• Berrata, Tomás, 1379
• Besse, Col. L. R., 1196, 1197, 1198, 1201
• Betancourt, Romulo, 1404, 1405, 1415
• Beteta, Ramón, 102–104
• Beulac, Willard, 1305
• Bevin, Ernest, 263, 434, 555
• Biddle, Francis, 267
• Bingham, Jonathan B., 291, 298–299
• Bissell, Gen. Clayton, 432
• Bissell, Richard M., 530
• Blaine, Col. D., 640
• Blas, George Konrad Friedrich, 661
• Blocker, William P., 1188n
• Bohan, Merwin L., 57, 64–71, 96–99, 102–105, 111–114
• Bolivia, 560–599
  • Axis activities in Boliva, U.S. efforts to counteract, 572
  • Bolivian Development Corporation, assistance of the Export–Import Bank to, 590–592
  • Chapultepec Conference, Feb. 21–Mar. 8, participation in, 7–8, 28–30, 42
  • Cochabamba–Santa Cruz Highway, allocation of $10,000,000 Export-Import Bank credit for construction of, 590–592
  • Labor laws, U.S. concern over application of local laws to U.S. Government agencies and failure of Bolivian Government to protect American personnel engaged in mining operations, 592–599
  • Military cooperation and Lend-Lease relations between United States and Boliva, 560–571
    • Bilateral military staff conversations: Preliminary discussions, 560–562; reports and minutes, 562–566; War Department program for initial ground force units, 569–570
    • Bolivian use of Lend-Lease planes to transport meat, U.S. opinion regarding purpose of Lend-Lease equipment, 561, 566–567, 567–569, 570–571
    • Lend-Lease: Status of Bolivian account, 571; termination of program following end of hostilities with Japan, 567
  • Petroleum project, use of Export-Import Bank credit for, 591
  • Protection of American lives and property. See Labor laws, supra.
  • Recognition of Aguirre government in El Salvador, 1070
  • Relations with the Soviet Union, 227, 228–229
  • Strategic materials, extension of con tracts between United States and Bolivia for purchase of, 573–590
    • Economic situation in Bolivia, and possible effect of termination of U.S. procurement program, 573–574, 582–583
    • Rubber agreement, negotiations for renewal of, 575–578, 580, 588–589
    • Tin agreement, negotiations for renewal of, 574, 579, 580–583, 584–587
  • Uruguayan proposal on human rights, position on, 203–204
• Bonilla Atiles, José Antonio, 983
• Bonilla Lara, Alvaro, 888n , 891
• Bonsai, Dudley B., 9, 50n , 116
• Boone, Lt. Col. William E., 902n
• Boonstra, C. A., 950
• Bougas, Valentim, 141, 701, 706, 707
• Boundary dispute Ecuador and Peru, 365
• Bove Trabal, Juan Alberto, 1387
• Bowers, Claude G., 789n
• Bragonier, Reginald, 1391, 1393
• Brazil, 600–732
  • American military bases in Brazil, questions concerning disposal of, 623–638
    • Airports and commercial air rights, protection of U.S. interests in, 630–638
    • Air Transport Command, question of deactivation of, 633–634, 637–638
    • Pan American Airways, protection of American rights of, 630–631, 634–635
    • Strategic Base agreement, question of activation of, 633–636, 637
    • Withdrawal of U.S. Army Forces, South Atlantic, discussions leading to announcement of, 629–633
    • Withdrawal of U.S. Navy from Brazilian theater, and plan for disposition of supplies and facilities, 623–624, 624, 626, 628–629, 637
  • Axis interests in Brazil, U.S. concern regarding elimination of, 650–678
    • Administration of Brazilian enemy property control measures and Axis replacement program, review of accomplishment of Banco do Brasil, 650–659
    • Confidential List, proposed reduction of, 660–661
    • German reparations, question of Brazilian share in, 670–671, 677–678
    • Proclaimed and Statutory Lists (see also Administration, etc., supra):
      • British-U.S. tentative agreement on program for eventual elimination of, 661–663, 664, 666–670
      • Considerations regarding listing policy following cessation of hostilities in Europe, 663–670, 671–672, 675–677
      • Nationalization or liquidation of Axis enterprises in Brazil, conference at Brazilian Foreign Ministry regarding, 672–675
      • Policy with respect to Proclaimed and Confidential List in post-hostilities period: Western Hemisphere, 311–344
      • Saboteurs, arrest of, 661
      • safehaven program, 660, 678
  • Chapultepec Conference, Brazilian participation in, 14, 41–42
  • Coffee, problems concerning U.S. procurement of, 688–701
    • Inter-American Coffee Agreement (1940), revised and renewed June 13, 1945, Brazilian position on, 358–360
    • Negotiations for a new coffee agreement ending in withdrawal of U.S. offer, 692–700
    • Sale and delivery of coffee to United States for Army use, 688–692
    • U.S. price ceiling for coffee, Brazilian reaction to announcement of, 700–701
  • Consumption taxes, liability of U.S. Government agencies to pay, 725–732
  • Entry into the war against Japan, 625–626, 627–628
  • German reparations, question of Brazilian share in, 670–671, 677–678
  • Inter-American conference for the maintenance of peace and security in the Continent, proposed, discussions with United States on date and site of, 154–155, 159–163, 165, 166–168
  • Joint Brazil–United States Military Commission, 622
  • Lend-Lease supplies and surplus property, problems concerning, 638–650
    • Lend-Lease Agreement of March 3, 1942, consideration of revision of, 638, 639, 640, 645
    • Liquidation of surplus property, discussions on, 623, 626, 646–648
    • Status of the Brazilian Lend-Lease account, and U.S. re quest for payment, 638–640, 643–644, 645
    • Termination of the Lend-Lease program due to the end of hostilities in Europe and the Pacific, and its effect on the status of current projects, 640–643, 644, 645–646
    • U.S. concern with regard to armament offered to Brazil by a British firm, 648–650
  • Military and naval cooperation with United States, 600–623
    • Bilateral Staff conversations: Instructions on procedure, 600; reports by Ambassador Berle concerning, 600–620
    • Views expressed in Brazilian Army circles, and discussion, 620–623
  • Military Aviation Agreement with United States (1944), cited, 913–914
  • Petroleum, problems of supplying Brazil with, and establishment of oil production and refining facilities in that country, 678–688
  • Relations with the Soviet Union, 223–226
  • Rubber agreements, discussions concerning extension of, 701–714
  • Trade controls and tax measures, U.S. attitude regarding, with special reference to the application on Trade Agreement of 1935, 714–725
  • Uruguayan proposal on human rights, Brazilian position on, 208–209
  • Withdrawal of American Forces stationed in Brazil. See under American military bases, etc., supra.
• Brett, Gen. George H., 378, 379, 515, 560–564 passim, 733–734, 739, 751, 851, 853, 898, 1008, 1063, 1064, 1082, 1205, 1231, 1233, 1242–1247 passim, 1250, 1260, 1262, 1271
• Bretton Woods Conference. See United Nations Monetary and Financial Conference.
• Briggs, Ellis O., 162–163, 300, 301, 1223n
• Brooks, Clarence C., 796
• Brown, Courtney, 84, 530
• Brown, Harry F., 1144–1145
• Brown, Robert Y., 1395, 1396, 1398
• Brownell, Col. George A., 631
• Brundage, Burr C., 1329
• Bruton, Gen, Philip G., 1137, 1138, 1139, 1145n
• Buero, Enrique, 221
• Buie, Col. Wilson R., 1149
• Bursley, Herbert S., 1175n
• Bustamante Rivero, José Luis, 1349n
• Butler, George H., 162, 1022, 1305n , 1306n
• Butler, Randolph, 533
• Byrnes, James F., 257–258, 280–281, 587n , 918, 1138, 1221, 1261–1262
• Cabot, John M., 62, 151, 426–434
• Cáceres, Julián R., 8–9, 33–35, 184n
• Calderón Guardia, Rafael Angel, 886n
• Cale, Edward G., 694
• Camancho Reyes, Salvador, 871
• Campos, Roberto de Oliveira, 680
• Campos Ortíz, Pablo, 72, 79–82, 1145n , 1147–1148
• Canada, 100, 145, 753n
• Carbajal Victorica, Juan José, 1394
• Carias, Andino Tiburcio, 197
• Carr, Col. Harold H., 1196, 1197, 1198
• Carrasco Carrasco, Gen. Arnaldo, 733–734, 751
• Carrigan, John W., 1119n , 1160–1161, 1168–1169
• Carusi, Ugo, 278, 1139–1140
• Casanova, José Manuel, 919
• Castañeda Castro, Salvador, 27, 31, 37, 39–40, 326n , 1168–1169
• Castillo Ledón, Amalia C. de, 94
• Castillo Nájera, Francisco, 121, 133, 176–177, 214–216, 1121–1123, 1110n , 1119, 1181–1182, 1183, 1184, 1410
• Castro, Héctor David, 179n , 275n , 1075n , 1076, 1077
• Cavenah, Col. Kenneth A., 384
• Cevilla Sacasa, Alberto, 289
• Chacón, Gustavo, 7, 28–30, 227, 560
• Chalbaud, Maj. Carlos Delgado, 1404
• Chalmers, Philip O., 623, 1305–1306
• Chamorro, Emiliano, 1220
• Chapultepec Conference, Feb. 21–Mar. 8, 1945, 1–153
  • Agenda and preliminary consultations:
    • Draft agenda proposed by United States, and instructions to diplomatic representatives regarding, 1–3, 4–5, 11, 23; text of suggested agenda approved by President Roosevelt, 10
    • Invitation to the Conference by Mexico, and proposed draft agenda, 3–4; acceptance of invitation by United States, naming Secretary of State Stettinius U.S. delegate to conference, 7
    • Positions of various American Re publics on topics to be considered at Conference, and exchange of views with United States: Bolivia, 7–8, 11, 23, 28–30, 42; Brazil, 14, 23, 41–42; Chile 11, 15, 19, 23, 35–36; Colombia, 11, 13, 20–21, 21, 23, 24–25; Costa Rica, 5, 11, 23; Cuba, 6, 11, 23; Dominican Republic, 11, 19, 23, 26–27; Ecuador, 11, 21–23, 23–24; El Salvador, 27, 37, 39–40, 42–43; Guatemala, 11, 23, 27–28, 31–32, 37–38, 1068, 1069; Haiti, 11, 23, 40–41; Honduras, 6, 8–9, 11, 23, 32–35; Nicaragua, 5, 11, 23; Panama, 11, 12, 23, 25–26, 30; Paraguay, 11, 14, 15, 23; Uruguay, 11, 26, 27–28; Venezuela, 11, 15–18, 23
  • Final Act, cited, 143, 144, 150; signature on Apr. 4, 153
  • Preparations for the Conference:
    • Basic objectives of agenda, U.S. efforts to clarify position on resolutions to be introduced (see also Exploratory talks infra), 43–63, 96–101, 106–110
    • Exploratory talks between U.S. and Mexican officials, 79–82, 85–87, 90–96, 102–105, 110–116
    • Topics on the agenda: Argentine question, 4, 5, 6, 8, 9–10, 10–12, 13, 16–17, 18–19, 21, 29, 47, 54–55, 57, 61, 67, 101, 121, 128, 144, 146, 147, 148, 150, 151–153; cooperative measures for the prosecution of the war, 2, 50, 55–56, 59–60, 106, 128, 145–146; economic and social problems of the Americas, 45–47, 47–50, 54, 61, 64–73, 83–84, 88–90, 96–99, 102–105, 108–110, 128, 130–131, 135, 136–137, 138–139, 141, 144, 148; freedom of access to information, 144–145; Inter-American system, responsibilities and relationships, 2, 51–54, 56–57, 61, 62–63, 73–78, 100–101, 106–108, 116–120, 28, 130, 133–134, 136; International Organization for Peace and Security, 50–52, 56, 60–61, 73–78, 100–101, 106
    • U.S. delegation, composition of, and instructions to, 4–5, 7, 57–61, 61–62
  • Proceedings of the conference:
    • Inauguration of conference, and reports on important developments, 121–127; messages by President Roosevelt, 126, 151
    • Resolutions submitted, 128–146; resolutions approved, 147–148
    • Signature of Acts of Mexico City by Argentina, and Argentine reaction to Conference, 147, 150, 151–153
    • Signature of Final Act, Apr. 4, 153
    • U.S. invitation to the United Nations Conference in San Francisco announced, 142
• Chase, E. E., 1055–1056
• Cháves, Juan, 132, 1330
• Chiari, Roberto E., 1267
• Chile, 733–845
  • Agreement with United States defining the military service due by nationals of each country residing in the other, effected by exchange of notes June 7 and June 11, 1945, 770
  • Agreement, provisional commercial, with United States effected by exchange of notes Jan. 6 and Feb. 1, 1938, 828n
  • Axis business interests, U.S. efforts to secure the cooperation of Chile in eliminating, 770–787
    • Proclaimed List, reduction or withdrawal of, 773–775, 775–777, 784, 785, 786, 787
    • Reparations from Germany, question of, 780–781
    • Summary of Chilean accomplishments in eliminating Axis interests, 770–773, 777–780
    • Trademarks and patents, discussions concerning disposition of, and U.S. position, 781–784, 785, 786
  • Chapultepec Conference, Chilean participation in, 15, 19, 35–36
  • Entry into a state of belligerency with the Axis powers, and adherence to the United Nations Declaration, 755–770; exchange of messages between President Roosevelt and President Rios, 758–759, 768–770
  • Export-Import Bank: Discussions on extending loan to Chile, 813, 817–821; opinion of Ambassador Bowers, 821–822; steel mill project fund approved, 821, 822–823
  • External debt, U.S. interest in status of, and policy toward advancing credits for Chilean development (see also Foreign debt, infra), 809–824
    • Amortization agreement covering Chilean short term dollar notes, renewal of, 823–824
    • Economic postwar problems, desirability of Export-Import Bank loan, 817–818, 820; visit of President Ríos to Washington in connection with, 817, 820n
  • Foreign debt, Chilean attitude, and question of a new debt-composition offer, 809–813, 813–817, 821
  • Hemisphere defense, efforts to secure cooperation between United States and Chile on certain measures of, 733–755
    • Airfields, construction and improvement of, and development of commercial air facilities, 736, 741, 743–744; U.S. mission to advise on, 743–744, 744, 755
    • Argentine possible action against her neighbors, opinion of Joint Chiefs of Staff, 742
    • Bilateral staff conversations between United States and Chile (see also Missions, etc., infra): Agenda and discussions, 733–736, 736–737, 739; Ambassador Bowers’ views on scope and objectives of conversations, 746–751; implementation of program, U.S. recommendations, 741, 745, 746, 751, 752, 754–755
    • Lend-Lease: Disequilibrium in airplane deliveries, Chilean complaints of, 738, 739–740; status of Chilean account and payments due, 742–743, 753–754; termination of program following cessation of hostilities with Japan, 752
    • Missions, training, and equipment (see also Airfields, etc., supra):
      • Establishment of U.S. ground mission in Chile, 744–745, 751, 752
      • Military and naval matériel, Chilean request for, and discussions leading to U.S. approval of interim program, 737, 745, 746, 753, 754
      • U.S. Naval Mission to Chile, British reaction, 734, 737–738, 739, 740–741, 753
  • Lend-Lease. See under Hemisphere defense.
  • Petroleum supplies for Chile, U.S. interest in, 845
  • Strategic materials, negotiations to procure from Chile for United States, 788–809
    • Copper: Discussions regarding total value of U.S. purchases, and orderly curtailment thereof, 789–795; political implications of purchases of copper from U.S. Commercial Company vs. Chilean small industry, 800–804; possibility of extending subsidized copper purchases, 809
    • Gold ores and concentrates, 790, 799, 800, 803
    • Manganese, 794, 804
    • Nitrates and synthetic nitrogen plants, 792, 795–796, 796–799; negotiations for further purchase discontinued, and Chilean reaction, 804, 805, 806–808
    • Overall Minerals Agreement: Extension effected by exchange of notes, Feb. 10 and March 17, 1945, 796; final extension, 815
  • Trade controls and trade agreement, discussion between United States and Chile regarding, 824–845
    • Decentralization plan of export control, discussions and recommendations, 824–828; liquidation of plan announced, and subsequent Chilean queries on U.S. quota and licensing restrictions, 836, 837–838, 838
    • Exchange controls, 838–841, 844
    • Proposals to broaden existing provisional commercial agreement, and negotiations for a new trade agreement, 828–836, 841–844, 844–845
    • Temporary reduction of import duties on commodities from United States, exchange of notes, July 30, 1945, 836–837
  • Uruguayan Proposal on human rights, Chilean position on, 198, 209
  • Visit of President Ríos to Washington, 817, 820n
• Chiriani, Juan Horacio, 14, 196n , 1279–1283 passim, 1297, 1299n , 1300
• Cicognani, Archbishop Amleto Giovanni, 281–282
• Clark, DuWayne G., 670, 675, 686–688, 719, 720, 721, 729, 731
• Clattenburg, Albert Edwin, 44, 278–280, 869
• Clayton, William L., 122, 172, 245n , 396, 341, 463, 516, 529–530, 571, 580–581, 640, 688, 725, 743, 744, 788–789, 800, 806–808, 835, 836, 935, 1076, 1119n , 1174
• Cochran, William P., Jr., 31, 278, 279, 282–283, 884, 885–888, 1067–1068, 1072–1074, 1076n , 1095, 1209, 1223–1225, 1229–1230, 1252–1253, 1275, 1276, 1277
• Coffee. See Inter-American Coffee Board and under Colombia and Brazil
• Collado, Emilio G., 44–45, 172–174, 178–179, 246, 1119n
• Collett, J. C., 700
• Colombia, 846–882
  • Agreement between United States and Colombia relating to a waiver in respect of tariff preferences accorded Ecuador by Colombia under a treaty of commerce between Colombia and Ecuador, July 6, 1942, as amended October 14, 1943, signed April 17, 1945, 882
  • Chapultepec Conference, Colombian participation in, 13, 20–21, 24–25, 122
  • Coffee, U.S. purchase of, 870–882
    • Quota decision of the Inter-American Coffee Board, Colombian reaction to, and U.S. views, 351, 870–873
    • Sale and delivery of coffee to U.S. for Army use, negotiations and terms of sale, 873–876, 877–880
    • U.S. price ceilings for coffee, Colombian efforts to obtain increase in, and reaction to announcement of, 876–877, 881–882
  • Defense questions, discussions between United States and Colombia concerning, 846–860 [Page 1452]
    • Bilateral staff conversations: Arrangements and program for, 850–853; report on, 854–855; simultaneous conversations with Peru, desirability of, 850–851; State Department position regarding implementation of, 857–858, 859
    • Lend-Lease: Colombian concern over Lend-Lease assistance to Peru, 847–849, 850; equipment for Colombian Army and national police force, 846–847, 849–850; status of Colombian account, 858–859
    • U.S. Naval Mission to Colombia, 855–857, 858, 859–860
  • Financial transactions involving the Axis, efforts of United States and Colombian Governments to control, 860–870
    • Colombian expropriation program (see also Proclaimed List, infra):
      • Elimination of Axis spearhead firms, discussions regarding, 860–864, 865–866, 868; reluctance of López government to proceed with, 864, 865–866; signing of Colombian executive resolution ordering liquidation of firms, 868
      • Replacement program and repatriation of Germans, 866–868
    • Proclaimed List: Discussions on reduction of, 862–863; postwar Anglo-American policy on withdrawal of, 661–663, 864–865
    • Reparations claims from Axis property, 869–870
  • Uruguayan proposal on human rights, Colombian position regarding, 217–220
• Colombo, Gen. David M., 1379
• Connally, Tom, 24, 130, 132–133, 140, 150, 585n
• Contal, Maj. Oscar C., 458, 472, 473
• Cooke, Juan, 406, 409–410, 414–415, 423, 434, 478n , 481, 489, 521n
• Corliss, James C., 1076n , 1095
• Correa Elías, Javier, 6, 1340n
• Corson, H. G., 1342
• Cortesi, Arnaldo, 383, 421, 506, 509, 510, 511
• Costa Rica, 883–895
  • Agreement with United States authorizing the establishment of a four-year military mission to Costa Rica, signed Dec. 10, 1945, 885
  • Axis business interests, U.S. efforts to secure the cooperation of the Costa Rican Government in elimination of, 304–307, 327–329
  • Chapultepec Conference, participation in, 5
  • Enemy aliens interned in the United States, efforts of the Costa Rican Government to secure return of, 268, 271–272, 274–275, 277, 281–282
  • Financial conditions of Costa Rica, U.S. efforts to improve, 885–895
    • Attitude of U.S. officials toward a further loan, 885–888, 888, 889–890; credit position of Costa Rica, summary, 890–891; mission of Interior Minister to Washington, and plan proposed, 888, 889, 891–893; passage of financial reforms, 888, 890, 891
    • Export-Import Bank, negotiations with, leading to revision of amortization schedules of the outstanding debt, 891–895
    • Inter-American Highway loan, 890, 891n , 892n , 895
  • Military and naval cooperation between United States and Costa Rica, discussions regarding, 883–885; establishment of a four-year U.S. military mission to Costa Rica, agreement signed Dec. 10, 1945, authorizing, 885
  • Recognition of the Aguirre government in El Salvador, 1070–1071
  • Uruguayan proposal on human rights, position on, 197, 198, 210
• Courand, Claude, 1337n
• Cox, Oscar, 137
• Crittenberger, Gen. Willis D., 1238
• Crowley, Leo T., 573, 645, 789–792, 794–795, 813n
• Cruchaga, Miguel, 755
• Cuba, 896–973
  • Agreements with United States (see also Strategic air bases, infra):
    • Coaling and naval stations, lease to United States of lands in Cuba for, Feb. 16 and Feb. 23, 1903, 908n
    • Military and naval cooperation between United States and Cuba, Sept. 7, 1942, 896n , 906
    • Military cooperation between United States and Cuba, June 19, 1942, 896n , 909–910
    • Naval and coaling stations in Guantánamo and Bahía Honda, lease to United States of areas of land and water for, July 2, 1903, 908n
  • Axis business interests, U.S. efforts to secure the cooperation of the Cuban Government in elimination of, 330–332
  • Chapultepec Conference, participation in, 6
  • Labor disputes affecting American interests in Cuba, U.S. policy with respect to intervention in, 969–973
  • Lend-Lease and other financial obligations, U.S. representations regarding Cuban delays in settlemen of, 956–969
    • Claims of American nationals against the Cuban Government and U.S. efforts to obtain settlement, 956–963; Cuban proposal for payment, and year end survey of claims payments, 963–965, 966–969
    • Lend-Lease, status of Cuban account, 965–966, 966
  • Strategic air bases in Cuba, proposal by United States for joint control and operation of, 896–916
    • Bilateral military staff conversations, 898–906
    • Postwar use of bases: Cuban position based on provisions of existing U.S.–Cuban cooperation agreements, and formal request for return of bases, 896–898, 906–910; transfer of facilities to Cuba, and negotiations for an agreement concerning reciprocal use and joint control, 910–916
  • Sugar crops, negotiations for U.S. purchase of, and related efforts to stabilize food prices in Cuba, 917–955
    • Price control and rationing system in Cuba, deterioration of, 922–923, 931–933, 934–935, 936–937, 940–941
    • Stabilization program, discussions concerning, and formalization of agreement, 922, 926, 927, 930, 931–933, 940–941; U.S. refusal to extend, 953, 954
    • Sugar purchase negotiations:
      • 1945 crop, 917–920, 921–922, 924–929; signature of con tracts for purchase of sugar, molasses, and alcohol, 930, 931n
      • 1946 crop, 923, 933–934, 934, 935–936, 937–940, 941–952; negotiations recessed, 953–955; probable effect of termination of hostilities in the Pacific on, 937–940; violation by Cuba of 1945 purchase agreement, 948–950
  • Uruguayan proposal on human rights, Cuban position on, 212
• Dagley, George H., 598
• Daniels, Paul C., 353, 692–693, 696
• Dartigue, Maurice, 1098
• Davis, Bainbridge C., 857–858, 869, 1427n , 1429–1430
• Davis, Chester, 554
• Dawson, Allan, 1403
• Dawson, William, 204
• Dearborn, Henry, 1010, 1021–1022, 1023–1027, 1053–1055, 1058, 1059–1060
• Deerwester, Col. Charles H., 1110n
• Denby, Alfred, 1084–1088 passim
• Desvernine, Eugene, 972–973
• DeWolf, Francis C., 44n , 47
• Diego, Mario de, 1248, 1249
• Dodd, Commodore Harold, 648
• Dodsworth Martins, Adm. Jorge, 260n , 648n , 649
• Doleman, Col. Edgar C., 566
• Domínguez Campora, Alberto, 1389
• Dominican Republic, 974–997
  • Agreements and conventions:
    • Agreement to grant privately owned aircraft of U.S. registry general peacetime rights of innocent passage and landing without previous authorization, Dec. 12, 1945, 997
    • Convention with United States modifying convention of Dec. 27, 1924, respecting the collection and application of customs revenues of the Dominican Republic, Sept. 24, 1940, 981n
  • Axis business interests, U.S. efforts to secure the cooperation of the Dominican Republic in the elimination of, 302–303, 310–311, 315–318, 344n
  • Chapultepec Conference, Feb. 21–Mar. 8, 1945, Dominican participation in, 19, 26–27
  • Recognition of the revolutionary junta in Venezuela, 1411n
  • Relations with Haiti, 974–975
  • Trujillo administration, U.S. policy to avoid action which would constitute an endorsement of, 974–997
    • Appraisal of Dominican situation, 974–978
    • Financial and other obligations of the Dominican Republic, non-fulfillment of: Food purchase program, 976–978; International Highway, 978–979; Lend-Lease account, 979–980
    • Military equipment: Dominican requests for ammunition from United States and Great Britain, and positions taken by the two Governments on, 987–988, 990, 993–994; ground force, size and equipment of, U.S. views on, 984–986
    • Political activity by American citizens, and U.S. position of non-intervention in the internal affairs of the Dominican Republic: Financial contribution to political campaigns, 977–978; organization of op position parties, 983–984; Trujillo’s request to certain American sugar companies to engage in informational activity, 989–993, 995–997
  • Uruguayan proposal on human rights, Dominican position on, 211
• Donnelly, Walter J., 353, 1271–1272
• Dowman, Gerald B., 504
• Drake, J. F., 1413
• Dreier, John C., 55n , 283–285, 1235–1236
• Duggan, Laurence, 56, 116
• Dumbarton Oaks Proposals (1944), 16n , 45, 48n , 85, 127, 131, 133, 136, 140, 141, 142–143, 144, 146, 747n , 1114n , 1313, 1363, 1364
• Dunn, James Clement, 229–230, 742, 1033, 1319, 1320
• Dunn, William E., 804n , 824, 861
• Dutra, Gen. Enrico Gaspar, 621, 622
• East, Julio L., 1326, 1329n , 1343
• Ecuador, 998–1061
  • Agreement with United States defining the military service due by nationals of each country residing in the other, effected by ex change of notes Apr. 2 and Apr. 5, 1945, 1037
  • Axis business interests, U.S. efforts to secure the cooperation of the Ecuadoran Government in elimination of, 1037–1051
    • Decrees of the Ecuadoran Government affecting Axis property, and U.S. and British views on, 1037–1039, 1040–1044, 1046–1048
    • Italian property, disposition of, 1044–1045
    • Proclaimed List, reduction of, 1045–1046, 1048–1050
  • Boundary dispute with Peru, 365
  • Chapultepec Conference, participation in, 21–23, 23–24
  • Economic development of Ecuador, U.S. participation in, 1051–1061
    • Ecuadoran Development Corporation (see also Export-Import Bank, infra):
      • Activities and reorganization, 1051–1053, 1053–1057, 1060
      • Indebtedness to Export-Import Bank, 1056
      • Queva-Manta Highway project, 1052, 1056–1059, 1060
      • Rubber and cinchona programs, 1053–1055
      • Export-Import Bank, discussions on credit extension to Ecuador:
        • Galápagos base question. See under U.S. bases, infra.
        • Public works and related projects, 1010–1013, 1014–1015, 1019–1020, 1023–1025, 1052, 1056–1059, 1060
  • Enemy aliens interned in United States, efforts of Ecudoran Government to secure return of, 285–287
  • Entry into a state of war with the Axis powers, and adherence to the United Nations Declaration, 998–1006, 1019
  • Lend-Lease: Status of Ecuadoran account, 1033; termination of program following cessation of hostilities with Japan, 1021
  • Uruguayan proposal on human rights, position on, 206–207
  • U.S. bases on Ecuadoran territorry, and other defense problems, negotiations concerning, 1007–1036
    • Galápagos base question: Bilateral staff conversations, 1007–1008, 1013–1014; Joint Chiefs of Staff, views on monetary value of base, 1020–1021; postwar use of base by United States, and relationship of loan payments and treaty for use of base, 1007, 1009–1010, 1015–1020, 1021–1023, 1024–1025, 1026–1027, 1029–1030, 1059–1060, 1061
    • Salinas base, U.S. arrangements for turning over to Ecuador, 1026, 1028, 1031–1033, 1034–1036
• Edwards, Gen. I. H., 378
• Edwards, Col. Parmer W., 849–850, 1377n
• Edwards, Vice Adm. Richard S., 860
• El Salvador, 1062–1080
  • Aguirre government, recognition by United States and other American Republics, 1065–1074
    • Consultation with other American Republics prior to Chapultepec Conference, 1065–1072; position taken by Bolivia, 1070; Costa Rica, 1070–1071; Guatemala, 1067, 1068, 1069; Mexico, 1070, 1071–1072
    • U.S. recognition, justification of, 1072–1075
  • Axis business interests, U.S. efforts to obtain the cooperation of El Salvador in elimination of, 325–327, 345–346
  • Chapultepec Conference, participation in, 27, 37, 39–40, 42–43
  • Enemy aliens interned in the United States, efforts of El Salvadoran Government to secure return of, 275–276
  • Loan contract of June 24, 1922, in formal assistance by Department of State to representatives of the holders of Salvadoran bonds under, 1075–1080
  • Military and naval cooperation with United States, discussions regarding, 1062, 1065
  • Uruguayan proposal on human rights, position on, 213
• Emergency Committee for Political Defense, 44, 95n , 1066n , 1409n
• Enemy aliens interned in United States, efforts by the Department of State to prevent their return to the American Republics, 266–301
  • Deportation of enemy aliens from United States after termination of hostilities, exchange of views between Secretaries of State and War concerning, 266–268, 268–269
  • Evidence against enemy aliens, requests for and discussion of (see also Position, etc., infra), 268, 269–271, 274–277, 283–285, 287–290, 293–297
  • Legal authority of the State Department to deport aliens, discussions concerning, 278–281; proclamations by President Truman authorizing the Attorney General and Secretary of State to deport, 271, 283, 287, 291
  • Pope Pius XII, appeal in favor of a group of German internees in the United States, 281–282
  • Position taken by certain other American Republics, and efforts of these Governments to secure the return of internees: Costa Rica, 271–272, 274–275, 277, 281–282; Ecuador, 285–287; El Salvador, 275–276; Guatemala, 282–283; Peru, 272–274, 276–277, 298–300
  • Repatriation of enemy aliens, policy and procedures, 283–285, 287–289, 291–297, 299–301
• Escalante, Diógenes, 372, 1419, 1421
• Escobar, José de la Asunción, 595
• Escobar Serrano, Héctor, 213
• Escudero, Gonzalo, 124
• Esperanza Suay, José, 1077n
• Espinola Castro, Gen. Mauro, 1063n
• Espinoza de los Monteros, Antonio, 102–104, 1131, 1153
• Espy, James, 43–47
• Estrada, Victor Emilio, 22n , 1025n
• Estrada Doctrine, 20n , 30, 53–54, 101, 1410n
• Export-Import Bank, activities in Bolivia, 590–592; Brazil, 644; Chile, 813, 817–821, 822–823; Costa Rica, 887n , 892–893, 894–895; Ecuador, 1010–1012, 1014–1015, 1018–1020, 1022–1025, 1029–1030, 1052, 1059–1060; El Salvador, 1076, 1077; Haiti, 1091–1093, 1096, 1097, 1099, 1102, 1104, 1105; Mexico, 1163–1167, 1168–1173; Paraguay, 1299–1303, 1308–1311
• Fabrega, Octavio, 1236
• Farrell, Gen. Edelmiro J., 186, 369–371, 421, 424, 448, 449, 450
• Fernán Cisneros, Luis, 153
• Fernández, Alfonso, 809–816 passim
• Fernandez, Andres Augusto, 1406n
• Fernandez, Edmundo, 1404
• Fernandez Davila, Guillermo, 1332n
• Fernández Fernández, Joaquín, 15, 125, 198n , 733–734, 756, 757, 760–767
• passim
• Ferreira Braga, Antonio de, 726
• Fetter, Frank W., 246
• Fiore, Luis, 438–439, 451, 452, 454–456, 469
• Flack, L. James, 44n , 46, 1322–1324, 1412–1413, 1416, 1427–1428
• Flournoy, Richard W., 278, 279
• Fordham, A. S., 345
• Foreign Bondholders Protective Council, 1075, 1076
• Foreign Economic Administration (FEA), 443, 531–537, 541–549 passim, 573–574, 584–585, 597, 599, 638, 640, 645, 682, 721, 790, 802–808 passim, 824, 826, 838, 922, 969–970, 1340, 1341
• Forrestal, James, 858, 860
• Fowler, William A., 943
• Fox, Walter, 989–990
• Franco, Carlos, 1359, 1360
• Frantz, Harry W., 62n , 378
• Freude, Ludwig, 409, 484
• Friele, Barent, 696
• Frova Mazzoni, Antonio Domingo, 1387
• Fuel oil. See Petroleum and Argentina: Trade and shipping
• Furniss, Edgar S., 884, 1427
• Gainza Paz, Alberto, 518
• Gallagher, Manuel C., 121, 125, 1313–1315, 1326, 1329–1330
• García Arias, Rodolfo, 371–372
• García Granados, Jorgé, 1088n , 1089n
• García Robles, Alfonso, 90–95, 114
• Gardel, L. Delgado, 173n
• Gardiner, Arthur Z., 573, 581, 799
• Garland, Eduardo, 1316
• Gates, Brig. Gen. Byron E., 621
• Geist, Raymond H., 1146n
• Gerberich, A. H., 869–870
• Gibboney, Carl, 920, 926
• Giffen, Vice Adm. Robert C., 1426
• Gill, Enrique, 434
• Gilmore, Eugene A., 386–388
• Glover, Robert G., 1390
• Godoy, Gaston, 943, 944
• Gohl, Karl, 661
• Gold policy statements of Feb. 22, 1944, 45, 102
• Gomes, Maj. Brig. Eduardo, 637
• Gómez, Marte R., 1192n
• Goncalves, Capt. Jeronymo Francisco, 648
• Goyeneche, Gastón, 772
• Grau San Martín, Ramón, 896–897, 911–912, 915–916, 923n , 928–929, 953, 958n , 958–960, 964–965
• Gray, William F., 833
• Green, David S., 699n
• Green, Theodore Francis, 1217
• Greenup, Julian, 1326, 1328, 1349
• Grew, Joseph C., 121n , 223–226, 266–268, 400–401, 624n , 640, 1281–1282
• Griswold, Richard W., 490n
• Grow, Capt. Harold B., 855–856
• Guardía, Ricardo Adolfo de la, 1240–1245 passim, 1249, 1265, 1269
• Guatemala, 1081–1089
  • Agreements with United States:
    • Agricultural experiment station, Mar. 10, 1945, amending the agreement of July 15, 1944, 1089
    • U.S. military aviation mission, Feb. 21, 1945, 1082n
    • U.S. military mission, May 21, 1945, 1082n
  • Axis business interests, U.S. efforts to secure the cooperation of the Guatemalan Government in elimination of, 340–344, 347–349, 350
  • Chapultepec Conference, participation in, and position on the seating of the Salvadoran delegation, 27, 31–32, 37–38
  • Enemy aliens interned in the United States, efforts of Guatemalan Government to secure return of, 282–283
  • Military and naval cooperation between United States and Guatemala, discussions and agreements regarding, 1081–1084
  • Protection of American interests in the expropriation of an airline in Guatemala, 1084–1089
  • Recognition of the Aguirre government in El Salvador, 1068, 1069
  • Relations with the Soviet Union, 227–228
  • Uruguayan proposal on human rights, Guatemalan position on, 209
• Guichon, Juan F., 1389
• Guirola, Carlos Alberto, 326n , 1077n
• Gulf Oil Corporation, 1413
• Gutiérrez, Francisco de P., 887n
• Gutiérrez Sánchez, Gustavo, 133
• Habana Conference (1928), 194n , 221, 1234
• Habana Foreign Ministers’ Meeting (1940), 192, 759
• Hackworth, Green H., 122, 156
• Hadow, Robert Henry, 260n
• Haedo, Eduardo Victor, 1374
• Haiti, 1090–1107
  • Agreements with United States:
    • Cooperative rubber plantation investigations, by exchange of notes Dec. 19, 1944 and Jan. 8, 1945, 1092
    • Termination of offices of fiscal representative and deputy fiscal representative and modernization of fiscal machinery set up in 1915, Sept. 13, 1941, 1092
  • Axis business interests, efforts by United States to secure the cooperation of Haiti in elimination of, 333–334, 344n .
  • Chapultepec Conference, participation in, 40–41
  • Foreign debt, U.S. efforts to ease the burden of, while protecting the interests of American bond holders, 1090–1106
  • Military and naval cooperation between United States and Haiti, discussions regarding, 1090
  • Recognition of the Revolutionary Junta in Venezuela, 1411–1412
  • Relations with the Dominican Republic, 974–975
  • Rubber. See Agreements, supra.
  • Uruguayan proposal on human rights, position on, 210–211
  • Venezuela, Haitian recognition of Junta in, 1411–1412
• Haley, Bernard F., 44n , 46
• Halifax, Lord, 649n
• Halle, Louis J., Jr., 175–176, 183, 184, 1305–1306
• Hamilton, C. W., 1413
• Hardaway, Gen. F. P., 564, 565
• Hardigg, Gen. Carl A., 688
• Harris, Gen. A. R., 384n
• Hasler, Frederick E., 1028
• Hauch, Charles C., 1095–1097
• Heck, Victor C., 304–305
• Hellmuth, Osmar Alberto, 425, 483, 485, 495
• Henriquez y Vasquez, Francisco A., 983
• Henry, Maj. Gen. Guy V., 1110n
• Herrera, Gustavo, 1402n , 1403, 1437
• Hertford, Gen. Kenner F., 534, 1205n , 1428
• Heurtelou, Daniel, 41
• Hillenkoetter, Capt. Roscoe H., 859–860
• Hiss, Alger, 156
• Hodgman, W. A., 349, 350
• Holmes, Julius C., 174n , 271
• Homer, Gen. John L., 854, 1034–1036
• Honduras, 1108
  • Agreement with United States for a military mission, signed December 28, 1945, 1108
  • Agreement of July 31, 1942, as amended April 25, 1945, between the Rubber Reserve Company and Honduras, granting the company exclusive purchasing right to all of Honduras’ exportable rubber, termination of, 1108
  • Axis business interests, U.S. efforts to secure the cooperation of Honduras in elimination of, 334–337, 344
  • Chapultepec Conference, Honduran participation at, 6, 8–9, 32–35
  • Military cooperation with United States, discussions regarding, 1108; military mission, agreement signed Dec. 28, 1945, 1108
  • Rubber purchase agreement. See Agreement of July 31, supra.
  • Uruguayan Proposal on human rights, Honduran position on, 217
• Hooker, John S., 1059n
• Hoover, John P., 1440n
• Hoppe, Ernest, 483, 485, 495
• Huertematte, Julío Ernesto, 1275, 1276
• Hull, Cordell, 159, 391, 408, 1175n
• Ibarra García, Oscar, 368–369, 402
• Illanes, Fernando, 828
• Illanes, Mario, 786, 828, 833
• Ingram, Adm. Jonas H., 606, 641
• Inocente, Alberto Alvarez, 6n , 212
• Inter-American Coffee Board, U.S. interest in problems of, 351–364
  • Inter-American Coffee Agreement (1940), U.S. position on renewal of, and Brazilian objections, 357–361; renewal for one year by resolution June 13, 362
  • Quotas, resolutions authorizing in creases in, 351–352, 361–362
  • U.S. ceiling prices on coffee: Increase requested by Inter-American Coffee Board, 362–363; by rep representatives of coffee producing countries, and U.S. denial of, 356–357; revision of, 364; Brazilian reaction, 700–701; Colombian reaction, 881–882
• Inter-American Conference for the Maintenance of Peace, Dec. 1–26, 1936, Buenos Aires, 78n , 191, 1305
• Inter-American Conference for the Maintenance of Peace and Security in the Continent, proposed, 154–171
  • Inter-American Treaty of Mutual Assistance: Informal conversations with Latin American Ambassadors in Washington on, 155, 165–166; U.S. policy, and tentative draft of provisions, 156–158, 168–171
  • Postponement of the conference due to the Argentine situation, and selection of a new date, 154–155, 159–165, 166–168, 1121n
• Inter-American Radio Conference (Third), Rio de Janeiro, Sept. 1945, U.S. participation in, 222
• Inter-American Social and Economic Council, beginnings of, and postponement of the Inter-American Technical Conference, 172–184
• Inter-American Technical Conference, postponement of, 174–175, 177–180, 181
• International Conference of the American States, Seventh, 1933 (Monte video), 194n , 1305
• Intervention in the affairs of states through multilateral action. See Uruguayan proposal, etc.
• Irigoyen, Ceferino Alonso, 399, 468
• Jackson, Wayne G., 44n , 45–46, 47–50
• Japan, 281, 375, 376, 442, 460, 641, 677, 1236n , 1237
• Jimenez, Enrique A., 1233n , 1241, 1251, 1272n , 1274
• Jiménez, Roberto, 25, 124, 1240n , 1241, 1265–1266
• Johnson, Vice Adm. Alfred W., 1110n
• Johnson, Hallett, 885n , 889–890, 891–892
• Joint Chiefs of Staff, 232, 243, 626, 643n , 742, 1020–1021, 1027
• Kekich, Thomas, 887
• Kelchner, Warren, 50n
• Kelly, Sir David, 466
• Kempter, C. W., 534
• Kennedy, D. D., 818n
• Kennedy, Edward, 383n
• Kidd, Philip C., 637n
• Kilbourne, E. I., 989–990, 992–993
• King, Adm. Ernest J., 600n
• King, Nat B., 438n
• Kingman, Rear Adm. Howard F., 1008, 1318, 1321
• Kingsley, J. Donald, 1151, 1152
• Knox, Charles F., Jr., 1440n
• Korkegi, Harri J., 387, 707
• Kroner, Brig. Gen. Hayes A., 606, 629
• Kuhlman, Clarence E., 504n
• Labarca, Santiago, 812–813
• Lacroix, Abel, 1098, 1102, 1103
• Laguarda, Maj. Gen. Faustino, 1380
• Lainez, Silverio, 217
• Lander, William, 1005
• Lang, Gen. John W., 384
• Lares, Arturo, 1412, 1413, 1422n , 1427, 1429, 1430, 1438n
• Laso, Luis Eduardo, 22, 1009, 1024, 1028, 1052n , 1053, 1054–1055
• Latin American–Soviet diplomatic relations, U.S. informal good offices in the establishment of, 223–230
• Leahy, Adm. William D., 267
• Lend-Lease Agreement of Mar. 3, 1942, cited 242, 256, 567, 568, 638, 639, 743, 753, 858, 1195
• Lend-Lease obligations by the American Republics, U.S. policy concerning settlement of and sale of arms and munitions of war (see also individual countries), 231–264
  • Directives by the President restricting Lend-Lease to use in war against Japan, interpretation of, and effect on current programs, 243–244, 245–249; recommendation by Joint Chiefs of Staff, 243
  • General U.S. policy: Summary of Lend-Lease program, 231–237; termination of program, and subsequent supply of maintenance items, 256–257
  • Military cooperation in future years, policy statement and discussions concerning, 241–243, 249–254, 256–257, 257, 258–259
  • Military staff conversations (bilateral). See Military cooperation, supra.
  • Political aspects of military aid to other American Republics, 255, 261–263, 263–264; U.S.–British cooperation in avoiding an arms race in Latin America, 260–261, 263
  • Reimbursement payments, discussions concerning, 237–241, 244–245
  • Status of Lend-Lease accounts and value of Lend-Lease shipments, 231–232, 235, 237–238, 240–241
• Lenroot, Katherine F., 141
• Leoni, Raul, 1404
• Lescot, Elie, 974, 1090–1105 passim
• Lescot, Gérard E., 40–41, 210, 1094n , 1098, 1411
• Lewis, Samuel, 1241, 1247, 1252–1253
• Liataud, André, 1096, 1097
• Liehr, Oscar, 483, 485, 495
• Lima Declaration (1938), 39, 756, 1313
• Linhares, José, 636, 712
• Linville, Francis A., 941
• Litvinov, Maxim, 227
• Livesey, Frederick, 1076–1078, 1079
• Lleras Camargo, Alberto, 121, 852n , 853, 855n , 856, 857, 859, 864–868, 878
• Lockett, Thomas H., 881–882, 1175n
• Lockwood, John E., 47
• Lomuto, Oscar, 507, 508, 517
• Londono Palacio, Arcesio, 871
• Londono y Londono, Fernando, 217
• López Contreras, Gen. Eleazar, 1401
• López Pumarejo, Alfonso, 21, 846–848, 851, 864–868 passim, 872–877
• passim
• Losa, Otto, 1336–1339, 1342–1343
• Lovett, Robert A., 631
• Low, Sam D. W., 803, 826n
• Luti, Luis S., 1415n
• Luzardo, João Batista, 480n
• Machold, William F., 85, 102–105, 114–115
• Machuca, Gen. Vicente, 1282, 1283, 1298
• Macrea, Russell Duncan, 990n
• Madueño, Ricardo, 1356, 1357
• Masso, Romeo, 1387
• Mañach y Robato, Jorge, 956n
• Mañas, Arturo, 919, 943, 945, 948
• Mancheno Cajas, Col. Carlos, 1036n
• Mandl, Fritz, 375, 464
• Mann, Thomas C., 44n , 45, 180, 1329, 1330, 1384–1385
• Marshall, Gen. George C., 247
• Martínez Franque, Horacio A., 1406n
• Martins, Carlos, 155, 183n , 223, 372
• Matos Diaz, Rafael, 1406n
• Matthews, H. Freeman, 230, 625–626, 1020–1021
• Mattiauda, Luis, 1377n
• Mayfield, Adm. Irving H., 753
• Maylott, Marcia V. N., 44
• McClintock, John C., 50n , 378, 456, 533, 706, 1010–1013, 1053
• McCrea, Rear Adm. J. L., 626, 629
• McDermott, Michael J., 493
• McIntyre, Donald, 740–741
• McKeller, Kenneth, 24
• McNair, Rear Adm. L. N., 1324
• Medina Angarita, Isaias, 1401n , 1402–1404, 1408, 1418–1420, 1424–1425
• Mehaffey, Gen. Joseph C., 1234n , 1241, 1248
• Mejía, Manuel, 878–879
• Menéndez Villoch, Salvador, 902n
• Mercante, Hugo, 421
• Messersmith, George S., 122, 227–228, 1067–1068, 1134–1137
• Mexico, 1109–1192
  • Agreements with United States:
    • Expropriation of petroleum properties, effected by exchange of notes Nov. 19, 1941, 1123n
    • Mutual aid agreement, Mar. 18, 1943, 1173
    • Reciprocal trade agreement, Dec. 23, 1942, 1176n
    • Settlement of claims for the expropriation of agricultural lands, effected by exchange of notes Nov. 9 and Nov. 12, 1938, and Apr. 17 and 18, 1939, 1123n
    • Temporary migration of Mexican agricultural workers to United States, effected by exchange of notes Aug. 2, 1942, amended Apr. 26 and Apr. 29, 1943, 1137n
  • Axis business interests, U.S. efforts to secure the cooperation of Mexico in elimination of, 320–325
  • Chapultepec Conference, Mexican participation in, 3–4, 7, 8, 9–10, 11–12, 72–73, 79–82, 85–87, 90–99, 102–105, 111–114
  • Export-Import Bank loans for the improvement of railway, road, and electrification systems, 1163–1173
  • Expropriation of American-owned lands in Mexico, U.S. efforts to induce action on cases reported subsequent to the Claims Convention of Nov. 19, 1941, 1188–1192
  • Import restrictions of Mexico and Trade Agreement revision, U.S.-Mexican discussions regarding, 1173–1187
  • Mexican Air Force Fighter Squadron, 1109, 1120–1121, 1129
  • Mexican Government control of a New York State commercial bank, U.S. objection to, 1187–1188
  • Migration of agricultural and other workers into United States for temporary employment, arrangements regarding, 1137–1158
    • Agricultural workers: Employment program for 1945, discussions regarding, 1137–1139; illegal entry of workers into United States, and U.S. efforts to de port, 1139–1140, 1143–1144; return of workers to Mexico, and problems caused by lack of transportation facilities, 1143, 1149–1153, 1158; termination of War Food Administration recruiting activities, 1144–1146; U.S. efforts to extend employment program to 1946, 1156–1158
    • Railroad workers: Termination of War Manpower Commission’s recruitment program, and Mexican position, 1146–1149; U.S. proposals for repatriation to Mexico, 1153–1156; U.S. request for increased quota of non-agricultural workers, and Mexican compliance with, 1141–1143
  • Military cooperation with United States, 1109–1137
    • Civil Pilot Training School, question of equipment for, 1129–1130
    • Joint staff conversations, summary of final report, and commentary by Ambassador Messersmith, 1110–1118, 1125
    • Lend-Lease account, discussions regarding Mexican payment of, 1119–1125
    • Mexican Air Force: Discussions on formation of a Joint Mexican–U.S. Technical Advisory Committee to, 1125–1129; on transfer of U.S. aviation equipment to, 1131–1137
    • Mexican Air Force Fighting Squadron, 1109, 1120–1121, 1129
  • Petroleum industry, U.S.-Mexican conversations concerning operation problems of, 1159–1162
  • Public works. See Export-Import Bank loans, supra.
  • Railways, U.S. efforts to rehabilitate and to hasten the return of freight cars to United States, 1159
  • Recognition of the Aguirre government in El Salvador, 1070, 1072
  • Relations with the revolutionary junta in Venezuela, 1409–1414
  • Uruguayan proposal on human rights, Mexican position on, 213–216
• Michels, Rodolfo, 794
• Military missions to the American Republics, question of advisability of sending, 265, 1321–1322
• Miller, James, 518
• Misuraca, Guiseppe, 1406n
• Moheno, Augusto, 91, 114–116
• Monroe Doctrine, 747
• Monsma, George N., 180
• Montagne, Adhemar, 1332
• Montenegro, Carlos, 8
• Montero Bernales, Carlos, 1358–1361
• Montero Vela, Jorge, 1052n
• Mora, Marcial, 179n , 372, 765, 766, 768, 820, 1365
• Morales, Carols, 1407, 1441n
• Moran, Col. Manuel, 1402n , 1427n
• Morazan, Ulloa, 43
• Moreaux, Achilles, 676
• Moreno, Miguel J., 1271
• Morgan, Stokeley W., 44n , 46
• Morgenthau, Henry, Jr., 1182
• Morínigo, Gen. Higínio, 1279n , 1281, 1304n
• Moscosco, Rodrigo Jacome, 1046n
• Mulliken, Jean H., 941–943
• Muniz, João Carlos, 162
• Munñoz Meany, Enrique, 31–32
• Munro, Dana G., 50n , 1216n , 1217n
• Munro, H. H. H., 575
• Munroe, Vice Adm. William R., 378, 379, 623, 624, 1282, 1376, 1378, 1380
• Murray, Churchill, 1145
• Nasht, John, 519, 520
• Neal, Jack D., 44n
• Ness, Norman T., 887n
• Newcomer, Gen. F. K., 1242n , 1271–1272
• Nicaragua, 1193–1230
  • Axis business interests, U.S. efforts to obtain the cooperation of the Nicaraguan Government in elimination of, 303–304, 307–310, 337–340, 344n
  • Chapultepec Conference, participation in, 5
  • Military Mission Agreement (1941), extension for a two-year period by exchange of notes Feb. 1 and Sept. 20, 1945, (see also U.S. Military Mission, infra), 1208
  • Military supplies and training, discussions regarding U.S. assistance to Nicaragua, 1193–1213
    • Aircraft, Nicaraguan negotiations to purchase, and U.S. policy regarding, 1209, 1210–1213
    • Arms shipments to Nicaragua: President Somoza’s letter to President Roosevelt concerning, and President Truman’s reply, 1193–1195, 1199–1201; U.S. position on, 1195–1196, 1202–1208
    • Bilateral military staff conversations, objectives of, 1196–1198, 1201, 1201n , 1206
    • Lend-Lease, question of purchase of supplies under, 1195, 1199, 1205, 1208–1209, 1210, 1211
  • President Somoza’s bid for reelection in 1947, U.S. efforts to discourage while maintaining a policy of non-intervention in Nicaragua’s internal affairs, 1213–1230
• Noble, Sir Andrew, 479n
• Noble, Col. Meredith C., 1380
• Norregaard, Nelson, 917n
• Norweb, R. Henry, 902n
• Notter, Harley A., 62n , 63
• Nufer, Albert F., 921, 933, 937, 967
• Nyhus, Paul O., 533n
• O’Connell, Joseph J., Jr., 727–729, 731–732
• O’Donoghue, Sidney E., 1143, 1146, 1147, 1149
• Office of Strategic Services (OSS), 1054n
• Ogilvie–Forbes, Sir George, 1413n
• Oil. See Petroleum under Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Mexico, and Uruguay.
• Olano, Col. Manuel Jose, 383, 455, 464, 467, 469, 470, 504–505
• Opie, Redvers, 25, 26, 112, 115, 118–119, 120, 125, 626–627
• Opium Advisory Committee, 1096, 1098
• Opium, International Conference at Shanghai (1909), 1068, 1086; at The Hague (1912), 1068, 1078, 1087
• Oreamuno, J. Rafael, 136, 183
• Pacheco, Lt. Col. Alfredo, 598
• Pacheco, Eduardo Juvenal, 399
• Padilla, Ezequiel, 3–4, 72–73, 85–87, 90, 121, 122–123, 129, 142, 514, 516, 1067, 1071–1072, 1109, 1141n , 1142, 1164, 1175–1176
• Padillo Nervo, Luis, 1137–1138, 1141–1143
• Panama, 1231–1278
  • Agreements with United States:
    • Commercial aviation agreement of 1928, 1234; of 1929, 1257, 1258, 1259
    • Defense Sites, agreement of 1942, 1235, 1236, 1259
    • Detail of U.S. military officer to serve as adviser to the Panamanian Minister for Foreign Affairs, agreement continuing in effect the agreement of July 7, 1942, by exchange of notes Feb. 27 and Apr. 7, 1945, 1239
  • American business interests in Panama, protection from restrictive legislation and proposed treaties of commerce and trade, 1264–1278
    • Commercial treaty vs. treaty of friendship, commerce and navigation between United States and Panama, discussions regarding, 1265–1267, 1269–1270, 1262–1273, 1275–1278
    • Nationalization of Commerce Act, and other restrictive legislation affecting American interests, discussions regarding, 1264–1265, 1266, 1268, 1273–1275
  • Axis business interests, U.S. efforts to secure cooperation of the Panamanian Government in elimination of, 318–319, 344n
  • Canal Zone (see also Constitution and Problems presented, etc., infra):
    • Commercial air traffic rights in peacetime, discussion of, 1256–1257, 1261n
    • Labor practices and alleged discrimination against Panamanian nationals, 1269, 1271–1272
  • Chapultepec Conference, participation in, 12, 25–26, 30
  • Commercial Aviation Agreement designed to facilitate development of peacetime commercial aviation in Panama, discussions with United States regarding, 1256–1264
  • Constitution, provisions in new draft:
    • Canal Zone, status of, discussion and amendment, 1233–1235, 1238–1239
    • Foreign commercial interests in Panama, 1263–1265, 1273–1274, 1274–1275
    • Foreign ownership of church properties, removal of provisions restricting, 1278
  • Defense problems, discussions with United States on, 1231–1239
    • Bilateral military staff conversations: Preparation of agenda, 1231–1233; Panamanian requests and U.S. recommendations, 1235–1236
    • Defense sites leased by United States, return to Panama after termination of hostilities with Japan, 1236–1238
    • Jurisdiction over the air space above the Republic of Panama, provisions in draft of proposed Constitution affecting, 1233–1235, 1238–1239
  • General treaty of friendship and cooperation (1936), cited, 1234, 1235, 1239
  • Problem presented by political opponents of Government of Panama taking up residence in the Canal Zone, 1239–1251
    • Development of political crisis, information concerning, and U.S. attitude, 1239–1242
    • Expulsion of opposition members from Canal Zone, President de la Guardia’s request for, and discussions concerning, 1242–1246
    • Extradition, question of, 1245–1246, 1247n , 1248–1249
    • Outbreak of violence in Panama City, and U.S. countermeasures, 1246–1250; termination of alert, 1250
    • Political situation following departure of certain politicians to Costa Rica, 1250–1251
    • U.S.–Panamanian extradition treaty of 1904, relation to, 1245–1246, 1247n , 1248–1249
  • Severance of relations with Nicaragua, Honduras, and Dominican Republic, initiation of consultations preliminary to, 1227n
  • Treaty of Nov. 18, 1903, cited, 1239, 1256
• Pan American Airways, 630, 631, 634–635, 1084n , 1088, 1089
• Pan American Grace Airways (Panagra), 566
• Panama Declaration (1939), 756, 1313
• Panama Foreign Ministers’ Meeting (1939), 191, 756, 1313
• Paraguay, 1279–1311
  • Axis interests in Paraguay, U.S. concern in elimination of, 1299
  • Chapultepec Conference, participation in, 14, 15
  • Declaration of a state of war with the Axis powers, and adherence to the United Nations Declaration, 1279–1282
  • Defense measures sponsored by United States, application and maintenance of, 1282–1299
    • Aircraft, military materials and equipment, programs for, and discussions regarding, 569–570, 1285–1293
    • Bilateral staff conversations, report on, and U.S. Embassy comments, 1283–1285
    • Lend-Lease, Uruguayan request for equipment under, 1285–1287; status of account, 1298–1299
    • Military Aviation Mission Agreement, developments leading to suggestion by U.S. Embassy to terminate, 1293–1298
    • U.S. attitude toward visits to Washington by members of Paraguayan Cabinet, 1282–1283
  • Export-Import Bank loans. See Financial obligations, infra.
  • Financial obligations and provision of loans for internal development, U.S. concern with, 1299–1311
  • Military domination of civilian affairs, 1289–1293, 1304–1305
  • Uruguayan proposal on human rights, Paraguayan position on, 196
• Pardo, Carlos, 404n
• Parisius, Herbert W., 934n
• Parra-Pérez, Caracciolo, 16–18, 121, 142, 1402, 1418, 1425n
• Paschal, Brig. Gen. Paul C., 744–745
• Pasvolsky, Leo, 122, 156
• Patino, Simon I., 589n
• Patterson, Robert P., 258–259, 637–638
• Pearson, Drew, 353
• Pearson, Lt. Col. Harold J., 1286, 1296
• Pearson, Thomas, 1092n
• Peluffo, Gen. Orlando Lorenzo, 369, 505
• Pena Batlle, Manuel A., 26, 125, 211, 975, 992
• Pefia Morua, Julio, 886
• Penna, Manoel Augusto, 676
• Penteado, Eurico, 689
• Pérez, Gen. Genevo, 902n
• Pérez Alfonso, Juan Pablo, 1414–1415
• Peris do Rio, José, 712n
• Perón, Col. Juan D., 369, 380–385, 392, 399, 406–407, 418, 421–423, 430, 433, 447, 507–519 passim, 524, 734
• Peru, 1312–1361
  • Agreement with United States defining the military service due by nationals of each country residing in the other, effected by exchange of notes May 23 and June 12, 1945, 1324
  • Agreement on reciprocal trade between United States and Peru, May 7, 1942, 946n
  • Axis business interests in Peru, U.S. efforts to secure cooperation of the Peruvian Government in elimination of, 1325–1333
    • Peruvian controls, and question of post-resistance measures, 1325–1326
    • Proclaimed List situation, appraisal of, 1326–1327, 1328–1329
    • Reparations from German assets, Peruvian interest in, 1332–1333
  • Boundary dispute with Ecuador, 365
  • Chapultepec Conference, participation in, 5–6
  • Defense questions, discussions between United States and Peru concerning, 1317–1324
    • Bilateral staff conversations, 1317–1318, 1320–1321
    • Dive bombers, Peruvian request for, and U.S. position, 1318–1319
    • Talara air base, discussion concerning U.S. postwar rights, 1319–1320, 1322–1324
    • U.S. military mission to Peru, question of, 1321–1322
  • Enemy aliens interned in United States, efforts by Peruvian Government to secure return of, 272–274, 276–277, 298–299
  • Entry into a state of belligerency with the Axis powers, and adherence to the United Nations Declaration, 1312–1317
  • Foreign debt, discussion of, 1333
  • Lend-Lease payments, discussion of, 1333
  • Relations with Soviet Union, 229–230
  • Strategic materials, continuation of U.S. program to procure from Peru, 1333–1343
    • Overall Metals and Minerals Agreement of 1943: Revision of Dec. 6, 1944, Peruvian views on, and U.S. Embassy comments, 1333–1335; U.S. purchase of lead, zinc and copper in Peru, curtailment of pro gram, 1340–1341
    • Rubber agreement: Exchange of views between U.S. Embassy and State Department on extension of, and coordination of economic programs in Peru, 1336–1339; notice of termination of the agreement, and of its extension to June 30, 1947, 1336, 1339
    • Rubber Development Corporation: Judicial proceedings against, and U.S. position on, 1341–1342; sale of equipment to the Peruvian Amazon Corporation, 1342–1343
  • Trade controls, discussions between United States and Peru regarding, 1343–1361
    • Decentralization Plan, liquidation of, 1351–1352
    • Exchange and import control measures: Restrictive measures instituted by Peru, 1344, 1348–1349; State Department investigation of reasons for, 1345–1346; U.S. protests and Peruvian position on, 1352–1354, 1359–1361
    • Negotiations for a new trade agreement, 1354–1355; U.S. Embassy survey of Peruvian finances and trade controls that may influence negotiations, 1355–1359
    • Tax discrimination on American import merchandise in violation of Peruvian-American Trade Agreement: Peruvian position on, 1346–1348; U.S. representations against, 1343, 1344–1345, 1349–1351
  • Uruguayan proposal on human rights, Peruvian position on, 221
• Petroleum. See under Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Mexico and Uruguay
• Pettigrew, Robert L., 1103n
• Pflücker, Wilfredo, 1326, 1329n , 1352n , 1357
• Picado, Teodoro, 197, 271–272, 886
• Pierson, Warren, 1164, 1165
• Pigrau, Andrés Blay, 483, 485, 495
• Pinedo, Federico, 434n
• Pinto, Col. José Celestino, 42, 203–204
• Plate, Juan, 1299n , 1301, 1303, 1304
• Plaza, Galo, 23–24, 141, 285–287, 1007, 1010–1011, 1016, 1018–1019, 1022–1025, 1027, 1029–1030, 1034, 1056, 1058
• Podesta Costa, Luís, 369
• Ponce Enriquez, Camilo, 21–22, 123n , 999–1004 passim, 1019n
• Pope Pius XII, 281–282
• Portales M., Gen. Alfredo, 744n
• Prado y Ugarteche, Manuel, 1313n
• Proudfit, Arthur T., 1415n
• Quijano, J. Hortensio, 414, 418, 479–480
• Quintana Burgos, Alfonso, 400, 413
• Rabe, Fritz, A., 1391
• Rabe, Hans J., 1391
• Ramirez, Pablo, 765–766
• Ramos, Samuel, 82, 94
• Ramsey, Henry C., 583n
• Randolph, Archibald R., 1088
• Rasco, Manuel, 943, 945
• Rayner, Charles, 680
• Raynor, G. Hayden, 122n
• Reed, Edward L., 506
• Remington Arms Company, 988
• Renick, Abbott, 583n
• Reyes, Zelaya, Gregorio, 9
• Rickard, Joachim D., 803n
• Rigley, Lt. Col. Orin H., Jr., 905n
• Rio de Janeiro Foreign Ministers’ Meeting (1942), 39, 45, 178, 192, 280, 439, 530, 667, 770, 1331, 1338, 1388
• Ríos Morales, Juan Antonio, 198, 762–763, 768–770, 807, 820n
• Rockefeller, Nelson A., 7, 50, 54, 55, 62–63, 122, 128, 176–177, 227, 372, 403, 462, 574, 644, 788–789, 793–794, 884, 903, 1016–1017, 1053, 1085, 1087, 1095–1097, 1142, 1213–1214, 1222n , 1340
• Rodriguez, J. R., 978n
• Rodríguez Larreta, Eduardo, 185–196 passim, 207, 210, 212
• Rodriguez Malpica, Vice Adm. Mario, 1110n
• Rogers, Edith Nourse, 140
• Rogers, James Grafton, 1075, 1079
• Rajas, Rodolfo, 1435n
• Romero, Gonzalo, 577n
• Roosevelt, Edward F., 1092n
• Roosevelt, Franklin D., 25n , 123, 126, 151, 612, 758–759, 1163, 1166, 1182, 1199n , 1281, 1306n
• Rosa, Julio Alfredo de la, 1434n
• Routledge, Rodham C., 504n
• Rowe, Leo S., 148, 177–178, 183–184
• Roy Hérard, 41
• Royall, Kenneth C., 263–264
• Rubber. See Strategic materials under Bolivia and Peru; also Brazil: Rubber agreements
• Rubber Development Corporation, 555n , 575–578, 580, 588–589, 596–599 passim, 701–711, 1054, 1336–1343
• Rubin, Seymour J., 456n
• Sabin, Samuel H., 919–920
• Safehaven project, 45, 130, 274, 276
• Salgado Filho, Joaquim Pedro, 630n
• Salinas, Ezequiel, 1388–1389
• Sanders, William, 11n , 44, 55, 57–62, 73–82, 90–96, 114–116
• San Francisco Conference. See United Nations Conference on International Organization.
• Sanjines, Alfredo, 8
• Santamaria, Carlos Sanz de, 856, 857, 867, 868, 869, 880
• Santos, Alfonso dos, 1300n
• Santos Filho, Francisco Alves de, 650n
• Saugstad, Jesse E., 44n
• Scherer, George F., 919–920, 924–926, 943–945
• Scheuer, Sidney H., 797–799, 801–802
• Schnee, Alexander, 808, 1359–1361
• Schroeder, Rear Adm. Gustavo A., 1380n
• Schwalb, Fernando, 1332
• Scott, Denis K., 583n
• Scotten, Robert M., 1022–1023, 1057, 1058
• Seiglie y Martínez, Oscar, 918n , 921, 924–926, 943, 945, 948, 951
• Sellon, Perry K., 696n
• Sepúlveda Contreras, Alberto, 368–369
• Serrano, Gustavo P., 105n , 133n
• Serrato, José, 26, 1366, 1388, 1396
• Sevilla–Sacasa, Guillermo, 1193n , 1213–1214, 1229
• Shaw, Geo P., 1014
• Shugg, Gen. Roland P., 621
• Silva, Mario Moreira de, 706n
• Silva Peña, Eugenio, 27
• Silveira, Manuel, 1401n
• Simmons, John F., 1068n
• Simon, Walter, 469
• Sindreu Cavatorta, Juan, 483, 485, 495
• Skelton, Byron G., 438n
• Smith, H. Gerald, 44n , 47–50, 183–184
• Smith, Gen. John P., 847, 848
• Smith, Gen. Luther L., 734, 736, 739, 748, 1197–1198
• Snow, Thomas Maitland, 864n
• Snyder, John W., 1151–1152
• Solano, Gen. José D., 856n
• Somoza, Anastasio, 1193–1195, 1202–1204, 1206, 1213–1230 passim Somoza, Capt. Luis, 1202–1204, 1207, 1212
• Soto Harrison, Fernando, 888n
• Souza Costa, Arthur de, 358, 689–698
• passim, 714–715
• Soviet Union:
  • Axis external assets in Argentina, 462–463, 474–476, 478
  • Establishment of Soviet diplomatic representation with certain American Republics, informal good offices of United States in establishment of, 223–230
  • Relations with Bolivia, 227, 228–229; with Brazil, 223–226, with Uruguay, 207–208
• Spaeth, Carl B., 44n , 156
• Sparks, Edward J., 1380, 1392, 1400
• Spears, Rear Adm. William O., 242
• Stagni, Maj. Pablo, 1285, 1286, 1295, 1298
• Standard Oil Company of New Jersey, 1416
• Standley, Adm. William H., 847, 848
• Stein, Harold, 808
• Stenger, Jerome J., 894
• Stettinius, Edward R., Jr., 7, 121–126 passim, 142, 376–377, 382, 516, 587n , 795–796, 1163, 1319
• Stimson, Henry L., 249, 268–269, 741
• Strategic materials. See under Bolivia, Chile, and Peru.
• Stuart, Wallace W., 599
• Suárez, Eduardo, 1161, 1163–1170 passim, 1181–1186 passim
• Sugar. See under Cuba.
• Supervielle, Manuel Fernandez, 959n , 967
• Surplus War Properties Act, approved Oct. 3, 1944, cited, 249, 745, 752
• Taft, Charles P., 44n
• Tamplin, William, 590n
• Taussig, Charles, 1245
• Taylor, Wayne C., 63, 122, 892–893, 894–895, 1010–1012, 1023–1024, 1058, 1060, 1171, 1172
• Teisaire, Rear Adm. Alberto, 378, 440, 506, 509
• Tello, Manuel, 91, 1180, 1190n , 1191, 1410
• Tewell, Harold S., 659, 718
• Tewksbury, Howard H., 471, 483, 554, 1009n
• Thermann, Baron Edmund von, 432
• Thorp, Willard L., 558–559, 802–803, 842
• Tierney, John L., 1253n
• Tin. See under Bolivia: Strategic materials
• Toledano, Lombardo, 138
• Toomey, H. W., 630n
• Toriello, Guillermo, 32, 227–228
• Toriello, Jorge, 31, 1088n
• Torranzos, César, 595n
• Townsend, Rex, 680n
• Transportes Aereos Centro-Americanos (Taca), 1250n
• Treaties, conventions, etc. (see also Agreements under individual countries):
  • Gondra Treaty (1923), 77n
  • Inter-American Arbitration Treaty (1929), 956
  • Non-intervention, additional protocol relative to, between United States and other American Republics (Dec. 23, 1936), 977n , 1072n
  • Treaty of friendship, commerce and navigation between Argentina and Prussia (1857), 455n
  • Treaty of friendship, commerce and navigation between United States and Liberia (1938), 1266n
• Trujillo, Hector B., 987
• Trujillo, José Vicente, 1019n
• Trujillo Gurría, Francisco, 1142n
• Trujillo Molina, Rafael Leonidas, 974–982 passim, 989, 991–993, 1406
• Truman, Harry S., 159–160, 243n , 251n , 271, 283, 516, 628, 883, 1129, 1199–1201
• Truslow, Francis A., 575n , 577, 703–706
• Turbay, Gabriel, 179n
• United Kingdom, 260–261, 263, 302–303, 310–315, 345–346, 389–393, 395–396, 397–398, 405, 411–412, 415–417, 445, 446, 460, 474, 478
• United Nations Conference on International Organization held at San Francisco Apr. 25–June 26, 1945, 755n , 853, 864, 889, 1009
• United Nations Declaration of Jan. 5, 1948, cited, 45; of Jan. 1, 1942, 371, 759, 769, 1173
• United Nations Monetary and Financial Conference held at Bretton Woods, New Hampshire, July 1–July 22, 1944, 45, 102, 812, 839, 1182, 1361
• United States Commercial Company, 584–585, 596–597, 599, 799–806 passim, 969–971, 1333–1335, 1341
• United States informal good offices in the establishment of Latin-American–Soviet diplomatic relations, 223—230
• Uruguay, 1362–1400
  • Axis business interests and activities, efforts to secure the cooperation of the Uruguayan Government in control of, 1387–1400
    • Confidential List of Unsatisfactory Consignees, revision of, 1389–1390
    • Elimination of spearhead Axis firms, Uruguayan accomplishments, and Congressional op position to, 1387–1389, 1392, 1393–1395, 1398–1399
    • Espionage agents, arrests of, 1387–1391, 1393
    • German assets in Uruguay, estimate of, 1399–1400
    • Proclaimed List, U.S. Embassy views on reduction of, 1397–1398
  • Chapultepec Conference, participation in, 26, 27–28, 38–39
  • Declaration of a state of war with Germany and Japan, and adherence to the United Nations Declaration, 1362–1374
  • Defense of Uruguay, assistance by United States on measures for, 1375–1386
    • Bilateral staff conversations: Political and financial conditions in Uruguay affecting implementation of, 1381–1384; report on, 1376–1377, 1377–1378, 1380
    • Lend-Lease: Deliveries of matériel to Uruguay, 1378–1379; pro gram terminated, 1380–1381; status of Uruguayan account, 1384–1386
    • Military missions to Uruguay, discussion of, 1375–1376
  • Petroleum and linseed oil problems, U.S.-Uruguayan discussion on, 1400
• Uruguayan proposal for intervention in the affairs of states through multilateral action in cases of flagrant violation of human rights or non-fulfillment of freely contracted obligations, 185–221
  • Argentine situation, considerations by Uruguayan Foreign Office, and U.S. reply (see also Initiative, infra), 185–187; sanctions by Argentina, question of, 187
  • Initiative of Uruguayan Government in drafting inter-American declaration on human rights: Discussions concerning, and U.S. support of, 188–190, 195n , 196n , 198, 204–206; Uruguayan note to U.S. Secretary of State and to representatives of all other American Republics (text of proposal), 190–196; views of Secretary of State Byrnes, 204–206
  • Position taken by other American Republics: Argentina, 198–203, 204; Bolivia, 203–204; Brazil, 208–209; Chile, 198–209; Colombia, 217–220; Costa Rica, 197, 198, 210; Cuba, 212; Dominican Republic, 211; Ecuador, 206–207, 207–208; El Salvador, 213; Guatemala, 209; Haiti, 210–211; Honduras, 217; Mexico, 213–216; Paraguay, 196; Peru, 221; Venezuela, 196
  • Reaction in Uruguay, 207, 209, 210, 212
  • Soviet reaction, 207–208
• Utz, F. W., 707n
• Vago, Julio, 437
• Vallarino, J. J., 1275, 1276
• Vandenberg, Arthur H., 585n
• Van Hyning, Capt. Thomas C., 1285, 1295, 1298
• Varela, Jacobo, 123n
• Vargas, Getulio, 41–42, 154, 480n , 601, 612, 625, 651, 680, 702, 712n
• Vargas, Capt. Mario, 1404
• Vargas, Nariño, Alberto, 177
• Vega, Simon, 1241, 1250
• Velasco, Col. Filomeno, 385, 418
• Velasco Ibarra, José Maria, 998–1000, 1004, 1020, 1060n
• Velasquez, Celso R., 121, 1299
• Velloso, Pedro Leão, 14, 121, 154, 164–165, 223–226, 514, 627, 642, 669, 671, 714
• Vendemia, José, 1391
• Venezuela, 1401–1442
  • Agreement with United States defining military service due by nationals of each country residing in the other, effected by exchange of notes, May 10, and May 11, 1945, 1430
  • Axis business interests, U.S. efforts to secure the cooperation of Venezuela in elimination of, 1430–1442
    • Liquidation program of Axis properties, 1434–1435, 1438–1442
    • Proclaimed List: Saboteurs of Allied shipping, inclusion in, 1433–1434, 1436, 1438; U.S. and British postwar policy regarding maintenance of, 1430–1433, 1438, 1442; Venezuelan position, 1437–1441
  • Chapultepec Conference, participation in, 15–18
  • Defense problems, discussions between United States and Venezuela concerning, 1425–1430
    • Bilateral staff conversations, 1425–1426
    • Lend-Lease: Military matériel, Venezuelan request for, 1427–1428, 1429–1430; status of account, 1428
  • Entry into state of belligerency with Axis powers, and adherence to the United Nations Declaration, 1418–1425
  • Revolutionary junta, consultations concerning and recognition of, 1401–1417
    • Activities by rebel forces against Medina government, information regarding, 1401–1405; incidents involving U.S. Embassy and other diplomatic missions, 1402, 1403, 1404, 1406, 1408
    • Diplomatic Missions, protection of, and problem of refugees, informal meetings of Diplomatic Corps to discuss, 1406, 1408
    • Members of junta, list of, and program and decrees, 1404, 1405, 1407–1408
    • Protection of American oil interests, discussions regarding, 1405–1406, 1412–1414, 1414–1415, 1416–1417, 1417
    • Recognition after consultation among the other American Republics, 1407, 1409–1413, 1414, 1415–1416, 1417
  • Uruguayan declaration on human rights, Venezuelan position on, 196
• Villalba, Jóvito, 1140
• Villarroel, Maj. Gualberto, 7, 560, 580, 592
• Viñals Corsi, Lt. Col. Luis, 1110n
• Vinson, Fred M., 918
• Von Bauer, Peter Paul, 867n , 868
• Wade, Col. Leigh, 908
• Wagner, Frederick, T., 666
• Wallace, Henry A., 813n , 912n
• Wallin, Paul J., 454–456, 503
• Walsh, Gen. Robert L., 636, 857
• War Food Administration, 541, 926
• War Production Board, 585, 722, 802, 805, 807, 919–920, 1338
• War Shipping Administration, 529, 683–684, 713, 804
• Warren, Avra M., 122, 156, 179–180, 250, 255, 283, 515, 1003–1004, 1053, 1065, 1119, 1151, 1201, 1205–1208, 1241n , 1318, 1321–1322
• Warren, Fletcher, 44, 1201n , 1202–1204, 1219n
• Waters, Gen. Jerome, 1297, 1298
• Wechsler, Herbert, 278, 279
• Wells, H. Bartlett, 899–902, 915
• Wells, Milton K., 272–274, 737–738, 1332–1333
• Western Cable Company, 525–526
• Whitman, Walter, 919–920
• Wiechers, Luciano, 102–105, 111–114
• Wilcox, M. L., 918
• Wilcox, Sidney W., 1253
• Williams, W. H., 1092n
• Wilson, Earl B., 917, 924–926, 943–945, 948, 950–952
• Winant, John G., 260–261, 546, 552, 555n
• Winchester Repeating Arms Company, 987, 988, 993
• Wise, Murray M., 1260–1261, 1262–1263, 1273, 1274, 1275–1277
• Wolf, Franklin W., 1382, 1383
• Woodward, Robert F., 1084
• Wooten, Gen. Ralph H., 247, 606, 607, 614, 629, 636, 640, 642, 1282–1284, 1376–1378, 1380
• Wright, James, 808
• Wright, James H., 906, 933n , 971, 1029n , 1420–1421
• Yalta Conference, 123n , 126
• Zarco Kramer, Jorge, 572
• Zevada, Manuel J., 102–104
• Zopf, Homer, 838n
• Zuazo Cueca, Julio, 580n