Word: envoys
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Uruguay meeting of OAS economic ministers to hammer the Alliance for Progress into shape. Curiously enough, the delay was a sign of progress. Several Latin American nations requested more time to prepare their requests for U.S. aid. Reporting on his trip to Washington's National Press Club, Envoy Stevenson presented the plight of Latin America's single-product nations, vulnerable to commodity price wobbles, by emphasizing the situation of the 14 countries whose economies depend primarily on coffee. "The change in the price of coffee by half a cent per pound can wipe out all of the economic...
...dictator's most recent concern began three weeks ago with the arrival of Adlai Stevenson. President Kennedy's special envoy dutifully heard Stroessner out, then had U.S. embassy cars sent to fetch half a dozen opposition delegations. In his farewell airport message. Stevenson said pointedly: "The protection of civil rights, free elections and democratic procedures would greatly enhance international respect for Paraguay, and confidence in her future development and prosperity...
Home last week after a ten-nation tour of Latin America, Presidential Envoy Adlai Stevenson was the bearer of uneasy tidings. The leaders of Latin America's democratic governments were still in a state of "mental shock" over the Cuban disaster; U.S. prestige was in sharp decline. Though everyone recognized the danger of Castro's Communist Cuba, the bearded dictator loomed so large across the Caribbean that no one was willing to join in strong, concerted action against him. The one immediate hope, reported Stevenson, was a mild plan, advanced by Colombia, for a call to Castro...
...real struggle. The revolutionary regime confiscated most of the family property; her sister, mother and grandmother died under the guillotine. Adrienne herself was saved only by the intervention of U.S. Minister Gouverneur Morris, who warned that her death would anger the U.S. With the help of a later U.S. envoy, James Monroe, Adrienne was finally released from her French prison and promptly set out to join her husband in his Austrian one. She collected her two daughters (her son, George Washington de La Fayette, had been sent to the U.S.), argued approval out of Austrian Emperor Francis II, and eventually...
...discussing the future of their continent, several Ambassadors stressed the hope for an eventual United States of Africa. Guinean envoy Conte, whose French was translated for the CRIMSON by Charles L. Mack, Jr. '48, maintained that "the road to union passes through independence...