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...presidential peers for such efforts and make a few suggestions for further progress. But by far the most serious talks would revolve around ways to check the subversive activities of Communist Cuba. The specific U.S. aim-to be pushed by Secretary of State Dean Rusk, Assistant Secretary for Inter-American Affairs Edwin Martin and Alliance for Progress Coordinator Teodoro Moscoso-is to cut the travel line to Cuba. At present, almost any Latin American can travel to Mexico on a regular passport, pick up special papers there to fly to Havana, then return home as a trained Red agent...
...Goodwin could see only bright horizons. Although not yet 30 at the time, and possessing no pertinent experience, he became Jack Kennedy's closest adviser on Latin America, wrote the President's 1961 Alliance for Progress speech. Shifting to the State Department as Deputy Assistant Secretary for Inter-American Affairs, he urged Kennedy to pay a state visit to Colombia and Venezuela. The President had some doubts: "Goodwin, if this doesn't work, you can just keep on going south." But the trip was a triumph, and Goodwin stood high in presidential esteem...
...Progress. The session was less than two days old when President Kennedy sent an emergency message summoning home U.S. Treasury Secretary C. Douglas Dillon. Before he left, Dillon did put the Latins at ease on one point. The U.S., he said, was prepared to replenish the coffers of the Inter-American Development Bank, would also provide $1 billion in aid next year to match the $1 billion earmarked last year...
Ernest R. May, associate professor of History and head of the Faculty Committee for Inter-American affairs, said yesterday that the committee "hopes to bring a distinguished Latin American scholar to the University next year," perhaps on a regular basis. Other sources implied more grandiose plans but were "uncertain...
...CLEANTHO DE PAIVA LEITE Executive Director Inter-American Development Bank Washington...