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...hand with Ike will be Secretary of State John Foster Dulles and Henry Holland, the Assistant Secretary for Inter-American Affairs. In the intervals between the banquets, meetings and wreath-layings, Ike and his aides should have plenty of time for relaxed private talks with the Latin Americans. Probable results: no momentous decisions or policy changes, but a healthy cementing of old friendships and a better understanding of common problems...
...school's first class in 1913, Ackerman became dean in 1931, turned the school into a one-year graduate institution with as stiff requirements and standards as any in the country. He helped found the American Press Institute and the Maria Moors Cabot awards for journalists who serve inter-American understanding. His own Gresham's Law: in a free press, "good news, meaning truthful information, always has and always will drive bad news, meaning false information, out of circulation...
...front of the presidential palace, using tear-gas bombs made by chemistry students as weapons. The weight of numbers favored the anticlericals. At length Aramburu accepted Dell'Oro's resignation (offered by telephone from Lima, where Dell'Oro had just been elected president of an inter-American conference of education ministers...
...State Department can hardly create an American market for Argentine meat. Nor can American industries be expected to make products cheaply enough to competes with the Czechs. But inter-American relationships can be strengthened by a strong American interest and effective action in eliminating barriers to trade and in granting aid. United States exporters at present employ a conservative and intractable credit system, a strong deterrent to countries which already have trouble meeting our inflationary prices. Even more important, South American countries need capital and technical assistance to build the hydroelectric developments and highways which they vitally need...
While statesmen and would-be states men debated Communism's latest moves at the rooftop level of foreign policy last week, Attorney General Herbert Brownell brought the subject right down to lock-jimmying level where it belongs. Speaking in Dallas to a meeting of the Inter-American Bar Association, Brownell said: "The primary objective of the Communist conspiracy today is to create the illusion that it is not a conspiracy. But every shred of available evidence shows that the conspiracy is conducting business as usual, if not on an intensified scale...