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...standard remedy for cold-war frustrations: more money for economic aid. Secretary Rusk declared that the "real issue" in Latin America was not Castroism but the "rising expectations" of the poverty-pinched masses. President Kennedy told his press conference that the U.S. was urging a special meeting of the Inter-American Economic and Social Council in mid-July to draw up a program of "realistic economic development in the Americas...
Ingrained Taboo. For generations, the world looked on the Monroe Doctrine as bedrock U.S. foreign policy. But the U.S. itself saw a need for supplementing the unilateral Monroe Doctrine with a system of hemispheric collective security. The result was the 1947 Inter-American Treaty of Reciprocal Assistance, better known as the Rio Pact, which provides that "an armed attack by any State against any American State shall be considered an attack against all the American States." The principle of inter-American collective security against aggression was reaffirmed in the charter of the Organization of American States, drawn up at Bogota...
...intervention in Cuba is necessary to the peace and safety of the Hemisphere is the Administration's most compelling diplomatic task in Latin America. Last week State Department officials in Washington and U.S. envoys all over the Hemisphere were urging upon Latin American leaders the need for an inter-American conference to draw up new rules that will enable the Hemisphere to cope with Communist subversion and rebellion...
...House backed him up. Although the action was in many ways regrettable and ill-advised, it had the desired effect. The Council had to begin an agonizing reappraisal of itself. Almost overnight Bill Bailey had become a rallying point for reformist sentiment, and his proposal for a smaller, limited inter-House Council began to pick up support...
Monro has long propounded his notion of an inter-House Council, and it hardly matters whether Bailey and the Dunster House Committee got the idea, which isn't necessarily the best anyway, from him or by spontaneous cogitation. In fact, Monro told the CRIMSON at a press conference that though he would like to "get rid of the anachronism of Class representation and have the Houses represented the way they want," the Dunster move is "a danger signal," not a sign of hope. He said "there is no reason for other Houses to think about seceding, if the issue...