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| To
the opulent estancieros whose ranches cover most of Argentina
the smartest rendezvous on earth is El Jockey Club in sophisticated
Buenos Aires. One night last week the sumptuously baroque
club was con fiesta for some jovial Britons.
Champagne
popped and sizzled. Frankly the Britons admitted they were
out for Argentine trade. Hospitably they were toasted and
cheered. "Welcome! Welcome to Argentina!" cried
Dr. Joaquin Sanchez de Anchorena, oldtime toastmaster of El
Club. "I cannot praise too highly British achievement
in stock-raising and horse-breeding. Rest assured we are ready
to give preferential attention to the aims of your economic
mission."
The slender, patrician Englishman who rose to reply is Viscount
d'Abernon of Stoke d'Abernon. A brilliant master of conciliation
he scored heavily as the Empire's first Ambassador in sullen
Berlin directly after the War.
His
brain conceived the Locarno Pacts. When three other statesmen—Briand,
Chamberlain, Stresemann—carried through his idea and
each won a Nobel Peace Prize, he contentedly retired. Germany
had been brought back into the comity of nations and he did
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"Verdadero
exponente de la caballerosidad británico-argentina
fué el banquete servido por la Sociedad Rural Argentina
en honor de Mr. E. T. Campbell y capitán Fergus
Graham. Ambos y sir Malcolm Robertson expusieron conceptos
altamente valiosos para nuestro futuro ganadero, y nuestros
hacendados premiaron con entusiasmo la palabra de los
"gentlemen" británicos, cuya labor, con
respecto a la aftosa, finalizaron brillantemente, merced
a las visitas a las mejores cabañas del país."
Imagen de Caras y Caretas del 24 de noviembre de 1920
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the same spirit Viscount d'Abernon recently consented to
head the unofficial British Trade Mission to South America
which was champagned at El Jockey Club last week. For him
it is another adventure in conciliation. He will try to
win back as much as possible of the Argentine trade which
Great Brit ain has lost since 1914 to the U. S. and since
1920 to Germany.
Said
Lord d'Abernon sonorously: "The fact belongs to history
that England was the first foreign country to manifest sympathy
for Argentina and to offer material help." Then, while
his Jockey Club audience occasionally cheered, the Viscount
recalled that Britain has nearly two billion dollars invested
in Argentina, mostly in railways and cattle.
Humorously
he noted that Argentina's Prize Bull of 1929 had just been
bought at auction in Buenos Aires by the British Bovril
(Beef Extract) Co. (slogan: BOVRIL puts BEEF into YOU!).
"It seems to me," concluded Viscount d'Abernon,
"that the reciprocal friendship uniting our countries
is of a very special order."
Thus
far proceedings had been sufficiently decorous, but now
Sir Malcolm Robertson, British Ambassador to Argentina and
not a member of the d'Abernon Trade Mission, hove up upon
his feet and cried: "Let the price of Argentine meat
and wheat rise! Thanks to the work which you are going to
give the British workman he will be able to meet these conditions
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| "Señoritas
y caballeros de la colectividad britanica que asistieron
al baile de gala realizado en el Prince George's Hall, conmemorando
el dia del armisticio en su aniversario"
Caras y Caretas, 24 de noviembre de 1928 |
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| "It
is one of our priceless riches!" cried Toastmaster de
Anchorena. "It is something we preserve with tenderness
and care!"
Such
was the first inkling that Sir Malcolm might have roughed
out in recent months a reciprocal trade agreement between
Britain and Argentina which awaited only final negotiation
by Viscount d'Abernon and his confirmation in behalf of the
Imperial Government.
At Buenos Aires the Jockey Club banquet was followed by rapid,
intensive, well-hushed work. Paradoxically, the first official
announcement of success was made in far off London. To respectful
British newsgatherers a frosty official of the Foreign Office
cau- tiously revealed that: 1) The agreement signed by Viscount
d'Abernon last.
TIME,
Monday, Sep. 23, 1929 |
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| "El
embajador de Gran Bretaña, sir Malcolm A. Robertson,
rodeado por los concurrentes al baile organizado por el
«British Ex Service Club», el día del
aniversario del armisticio.
Caras y Caretas, 24 de noviembre de 1928 |
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