I think the people over here are coming to realize what would happen if Germany and Italy won a European war. We would be out of t...he picture entirely.... If I were a German conqueror what would I do? Obviously I would have the British navy out of the way and the French army out of the way.... The first thing I would do is look around and say, "What outside territories do I want to take for myself?"... We are not quite ready to take on the United States but we can do it by indirection very nicely. We are going to dominate South America ... without violating the Monroe Doctrine. [FDR set forth a scenario of economic domination of Latin America by giving Argentina a choice of agreeing to German domination of its army by economic blackmail by virtue of the fact that Germany controlled all the agricultural markets in Europe on which Argentina depended for livelihood and the same for Brazil.] It is a perfectly open and shut thing and, if you have the complete, physical power to do it, you win.... [F]rom Hitler's point of view, it is rational. And, if any of us were in his place, with his methods, we would do it. I made myself a hump-back, dyed my skin in several places with great spots of yellow; so that, when I look'd in the glass, I was almost frighten'd at my own figure.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Everywhere--all over Africa and South America ... you see these suburbs springing up. They represent the optimum of what people wa...nt. There's a certain sort of logic leading towards these immaculate suburbs. And they're terrifying, because they are the death of the soul.... This is the prison this planet is being turned into.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Indeed, I believe that in the future, when we shall have seized again, as we will seize if we are true to ourselves, our own fair ...part of commerce upon the sea, and when we shall have again our appropriate share of South American trade, that these railroads from St. Louis, touching deep harbors on the gulf, and communicating there with lines of steamships, shall touch the ports of South America and bring their tribute to you.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
John Forbes: You were voted the prettiest girl in the class; I was voted the boy most likely to succeed. Something should happen t...o people like that. Sue Forbes: Well, something did. They got married. John Forbes: Whatever happened to those two people who were going to build a boat and sail around the world? Sue Forbes: Well, I had a baby. I never did hear what happened to you. Oh, come on, wanderlust, you've got a family to support. John Forbes: No South America? Sue Forbes: Not today.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
A million butterflies rose up from South America, All together, and flew in a gold storm toward Spain:... Eastward, the annual legend,LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I have, indeed, even omitted facts, which, on account of their singularity, must in the eyes of some have appeared to border on th...e marvelous. But in the forests of South America such extraordinary realities are to be found, that there is assuredly no need to have recourse to fiction or the least exaggeration.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I sincerely hope that the incoming Congress will be alive, as it should be, to the importance of our foreign trade and of encourag...ing it in every way feasible. The possibility of increasing this trade in the Orient, in the Philippines, and in South America is known to everyone who has given the matter attention.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
As usual I finish the day before the sea, sumptuous this evening beneath the moon, which writes Arab symbols with phosphorescent s...treaks on the slow swells. There is no end to the sky and the waters. How well they accompany sadness!LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »