Word: humphrey
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Consternation. Fulton charged, in effect, that Fellow Republican Humphrey, named by President Eisenhower "to speak for our nation," did not truly reflect U.S. public opinion. "Humphrey came down here with an empty briefcase," said Fulton. "The American delegation was told to keep its mouth shut and get it over with as fast as possible." Explaining that he had gone to Brazil "on my own, just to contest Humphrey's policy," Fulton proposed a "vigorous program of [Latin American] development comprehending an immediate billion dollars from United States public funds." There were, he went on, 370,000 unemployed...
...summer capital (see above), Latin American delegates to the inter-American economic conference last week opened their campaign for a massive new program of help from the U.S. (TIME, Nov. 22). The response was a blend of sweet reasonableness and polite standoff from U.S. Secretary of the Treasury George Humphrey. The Latinos wanted price floors for the raw materials they supply the U.S.; Humphrey countered that "We as governments should reduce . . . our own intervention in the fields of commerce and industry." The Latinos wanted outside financing totaling $1 billion a year; Humphrey suggested "intensified and expanded" loans by the Export...
...Quitandinha Hotel, and gathered a group of reporters around him. "I want to talk about financial aid from my country to Latin America," he announced quietly. What Fulton talked about, then and later, went off like a land mine under the official U.S. policy and its main author, George Humphrey...
Gamesmanship. But Fulton's interview had already exposed a real split in U.S. opinion toward Latin American aid. Humphrey's policy obviously fell short of the recommendations that Milton Eisenhower made a year ago to the President...
...same time Humphrey J. Fisher '55, Secretary of the Liberal Union, said that there were "possibilities of arranging a meeting over Christmas vacation between Senators Wayne Morse, Herbert Lehman, Hubert Humphrey and Huang to consider his problem...