Background
Carlos Saavedra Lamas was born in Buenos Aireson November 1, 1878, to a family of the porteño aristocracy.
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Carlos Saavedra Lamas was born in Buenos Aireson November 1, 1878, to a family of the porteño aristocracy.
In 1903 he earned a doctorate of laws at the National University.
His career in public service began with appointments as director of public credit (1906 - 1907) and as secretary of the Buenos Aires municipality (1907). He spent two terms in the National Congress, where he promoted the "Saavedra Lamas Law" of 1912, which protected domestic sugar producers from foreign competition. In 1915 he headed the Ministries of Justice and Public Education. Saavedra Lamas presided over the International Labor Conference in Geneva in 1928. He served as ministerof foreign affairs (1932 - 1938) and represented Argentina at several international conferences. He presided over the League of Nations Assembly in 1936, which Argentina had recently rejoined in an effort to engage in world affairs. A long-smoldering Bolivian-Paraguayan boundary dispute led to the Gran Chaco War (1932 - 1935), which defied the peacemaking efforts of Latin American nations and the United States and enabled Saavedra Lamas to assert Argentina's influence in hemispheric affairs. After failing to terminate the conflict by relying upon the League of Nations conciliation machinery, he engineered a permanent truce in 1935. At the 1936 Inter-American Conference in Buenos Aires, Saavedra Lamas sought to safeguard hemispheric security through the League of Nations, thereby opposing the United States efforts to strengthen the inter-American system. Although President Franklin Roosevelt attended the conference and made many concessions in the interests of promoting inter-American cooperation, Foreign Minister Saavedra Lamas remained basically unmoved. Apparently he foresaw little danger to Argentina in the rise of European dictators, although later he became friendlier toward the United States and supported the Allies after the outbreak of World War II. Still, his policies helped to perpetuate the United States-Argentina estrangement. After leaving the Foreign Ministry in 1938, Saavedra Lamas served at the National University as president (1941 - 1943) and as a professor of economics (1943 - 1946). He produced many books and articles on public education, economics, and international law. He died in Buenos Aires on May 5, 1959.
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An ardent nationalist, Saavedra Lamas sought to increase his country's prestige by increasing ties with Europe and by assuming leadership of Spanish American nations. These policies intensified a long-standing United States-Argentina polarization in hemispheric affairs, countered the traditional United States Pan-American policies based upon the Monroe Doctrine, and hampered the Roosevelt administration's efforts to increase hemispheric solidarity by the new "good-neighbor" policy, which promised to treat all Latin American countries on a basis of equality. Nevertheless, Saavedra Lamas and U. S. Secretary of State Cordell Hull reconciled some of their countries' basic differences at the 1933 Inter-American Conference held in Montevideo.
Quotations:
"Unemployment is a great tragedy. The man who goes about hopelessly seeking work in order to earn bread for his children is a living reproach to civilization. "
"War of aggression, war which does not imply defense of one's country, is a collective crime. "
"America is the world of peace and must be made the continent of its definite consequence. "
"War implies a lack of comprehension of mutual national interests; it means the undermining and even the end of culture. "
He was married Rosa Sáenz Peña González and they had a son.
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November 8, 1887 - September 30, 1977
September 29, 1921 - March 24, 2011
