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...Colossus." A Latin American delegate might...
...casualty of the war. In the past, without strength of arms, we pushed the notion of sacred sovereignty as far as it would go. We had to do that, because only by asserting our moral inviolability as sovereign states could we build a moral defense against the Colossus of the North...
Marshall Field, who owned no publishing property at all a half dozen years ago, is on the verge of becoming a journalistic colossus. Besides papers in the nation's two largest cities, and his explorations into the magazine and country weekly fields, he now owns a Cincinnati radio station (WSAI), a syndicated Sunday supplement (Parade), and parts of two big book-publishing companies (Simon & Schuster and Pocket Books, Inc.-TIME, Nov. 13). But reports that he is about to set up a newspaper shop in Philadelphia and Denver are false, he says: "I don't think I believe...
...impact of the meeting produced a historic change in Pan-American policy. Latin neighbors who had always feared, baited and resented "the colossus of the North" suddenly begged the colossus to move south with money and arms, promise far more "intervention" than the U.S. wanted to offer...
Their great worry is: will they be the pawns of the Colossus of the North, or honored, respected associates? The test of Nelson Rockefeller's long and earnest efforts to win Latin American friendship will be whether or not this Latin worry is deflated at Mexico City. If this fear is not removed, no Western Hemisphere working arrangement will be durable. If the worry is intensified, sooner or later Latin Americans will turn to some other power, perhaps to Britain or Russia, to counterbalance a new U.S. imperialism...