The United States at Rio, 1942: the Strains of Pan-Americanism *
The meeting of the Ministers of Foreign Affairs of the American Republics in Rio de Janeiro in 1942 was both the end of the series of inter-American meetings called in order to formulate an 'American attitude' toward the events in Europe and also the formalization of the war-time co-operation which followed. But, at another level, it was a clash of the foreign policies of Brazil, Chile, Argentina and the United States which both typified and shaped interAmerican relations well into the g95os. This discussion, which is largely based on United States government documents,1 examines the inter-meshings of these foreign policies at the Rio meeting and the immediate aftermath of that conference.