Word: interamerican
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Unique among postwar efforts to aid the world's poor, the new bank-a brainchild of the U.N.'s Economic Commission for Asia and the Far East-was inspired largely by Asians themselves. In contrast to the U.S.-led World Bank and the U.S.-dominated InterAmerican Bank, it will be run largely by Asians. At Bangkok this week and next, the sponsoring nations are expected to decide how the organization will be set up and where it will be located, thus paving the way for a ministerial meeting to be held Nov. 29 in Manila to sign...
...institutions such as Columbia University, Stanford University, the New York University School of Law, the American Institute of Foreign Trade at Phoenix, Southern Methodist University, Tulane University Law School, and the University of the Pacific at Stockton, California. I appreciate, too, that the Ford Foundation, the Rockefeller Foundation, the Interamerican Bar Association, the Institute of International Education and other organizations support many worthwhile activities, scholars and otherwise, in or concerning Latin America...
...eight years Milton Eisenhower traveled through Latin America as personal representative and Special Ambassador for his brother, the President of the United States. From those ramblings and a "life time of interest," Dr. Eisenhower has compiled a wealth of wisdom about the interamerican community. Part anecdote, part admonition, The Wine Is Bitter (Doubleday, 342 pp., $4.95) is the story of an American and the Americas...
...Eisenhower's book is more representatively American than even he intended. "The United States," he remarks in passing, "is in a very real sense the heart of the interamerican system." Looking at the hemisphere through North American eyes, this may seem credible. But for the better part of the 250 million people who live south of the Rio Grande, the Yankee and his institutions are strange and often repugnant animals. The fact that the United States with seven per cent of the world's population produces 50 per cent of the world's goods does not necessarily endear Uncle...
...enthusiasm for interamerican unity, Dr. Eisenhower glosses over the differences in North and South American heritage. It is inconceivable to him that a "Latin Republic" might want to shove itself into the 20th Century by means not wholly to our liking nor entirely dictated by our image. He is totally American in his inability to understand communism. "Now two revolutions smolder in the hemisphere: the Alliance for Progress and Castro communism. One is dedicated to democracy, justice, and economic growth; the other, conceived in bloodshed, is dedicated to violence, totalitarianism and the destruction of human freedom. The former will take...