Word: castros
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Until the last hour, the U.S. had hoped to win Argentina and Brazil to its side against Castro, but Latin America's two biggest nations would not come around at Punta del Este. Last week in their home bailiwicks, Brazil's and Argentina's leaders had some explaining to do. In Brazil, Foreign Minister San Thiago Dantas went before an angry Parliament to explain his stand. Skillfully dividing and goading the Deputies into ineffectual quarreling, he escaped uncensured. In Argentina, President
Arturo Frondizi, who had also balked at voting Castro out of the hemisphere, ran into an ultimatum from his country's powerful and conservative military men. In the end he was forced to make Argentina the 14th hemisphere nation to break diplomatic relations with Cuba...
Giving In. He made his reluctance plain. Though Argentina's President personally abhors both Communism and Castro (whose Foreign Minister once called Frondizi a "viscous blob of human excrescences"), he finds it politically expedient, both at home and abroad, to play the neutral. Maneuvering for time, he went before the nation to make an angry speech defending Argentina's-and his own-independence in world affairs. If Frondizi expected an outburst of public support, he did not get it. When the military men backed up their ultimatum by boycotting a presidential state dinner for Belgium's visiting...
...goal the United States must not aim for is a short-range effect like a vote against Castro in the U.N., added co-panelist Morton H. Halperin, research associate in the Center for International Affairs...
Earlier in the week, another Kennedy Frontiersman, passing through Canada, got himself on the bad side of Ottawa. In Vancouver en route to Tokyo, White House Aide Arthur Schlesinger Jr. declared in an airport interview that "anything that supports Castro threatens the prospects of democratic success in Latin America." Retorted Canada's External Affairs Secretary Howard Green in the Commons: "If it was made in the terms suggested, it was a most unusual and, I think, improper thing for an official of another country...