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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...
...backing for a united Latin American front against Castro's Cuba. As the futile talk ended, Berle stuck out his hand to say goodbye. Quadros refused to shake it. Then, to the undisguised dismay of Brazilian Foreign Minister Afonso Arinos, Quadros pointedly turned his back on the special envoy of the President...
...accounts of the incident spread across Brazil, a chorus of protest arose. Editorialized Rio's Correio da Manhâ: "The way Jânío Quadros received, or rather dismissed, President Kennedy's special envoy deserves sharp criticism from all Brazilians." The criticism spread to include the whole subject of Quadros' headlong rush to "neutralism" during his six weeks in office. Wrote the influential Jornal do Brasil, heretofore one of Quadros' staunchest supporters: "Quadros, who in his campaign stressed the impossibility of ignoring the importance and existence of Red China, now appears to ignore...