Word: inter-american
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...stood quietly but firmly against them. Last week the church in Cuba shifted adroitly into opposition to Strongman Fulgencio Batista by calling for a "national-unity government" to replace his. By contrast, the U.S. State Department has sometimes had an unhappy knack of appearing to back the dictators. Former Inter-American Affairs Chief Henry Holland publicly hailed Peron as a "great Argentine." Secretary of State Dulles took time during one of his two visits to Latin America to pay a courtesy call on Colombia's Strongman Gustavo Rojas Pinilla. since kicked out. The recent U.S. Ambassador to Venezuela. beaming...
...maintain the present high level of exports to Mexico. But how can Mexico keep up its imports if the U.S. cuts our ability to pay for them, if we get less for our zinc and lead?" Concluded ex-Diplomat Henry Holland, who was the State Department's Inter-American Affairs chief until last year: "InterAmerican trade is in greater danger than at any time in years...
...reactions often combined realism with optimism. In Uruguay, the daily El Plata joked about the U.S. reluctance to go in for Latin American giveaways. "The U.S. knows only too well the similarity between Latin American economic administration and sacks with holes or barrels without bottoms." On vacation in Newport, President Eisenhower examined the conference's results, reflected most delegates' reactions by calling them "an outstanding statement of the principles and objectives of inter-American economic cooperation...
PLACES! exclaimed a headline on the Chicago Tribune editorial page last week. The editorial below explained that Jules Dubois, the Trib's veteran Latin America correspondent, had been permanently barred as an "agitator" from Strongman Rafael Trujillo's Dominican Republic. Reason: as chairman of the Inter-American Press Association's press freedom committee, Dubois had recommended that two Trujillo-owned dailies, El Caribe and La Nation, be expelled from the I.A.P.A., because there is no freedom of the press under Trujillo. "Mr. Dubois must consider it an honor to be denied Dominican hospitality," the Tribune applauded...
Good Partnership. When President Eisenhower took office, "the wholesome concept of good neighbors" prevailed in inter-American relations. But "we foresaw a bond stronger than any yet achieved here or in any other community of world states." As a result, Eisenhower "called for a thorough study of the entire field of inter-American relations, the first integral examination ever made of our relations in the hemisphere. The man who did this job was the President's brother, Dr. Milton Eisenhower, who submitted an exhaustive report in November 1953. Dr. Eisenhower's recommendations on hemisphere partnership became and still...