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...because the new U.S. aid program coincided so transparently with the U.S. need to counter Cuba's and-Yankee campaign, Latin American skeptics call it "the Castro plan." Ike recently sent a personal note to Brazilian President Juscelino Kubitschek concerning the September meeting in Bogota of the "Committee of 21," a committee dreamed up by Kubitschek to guide the hemisphere's economic growth and win U.S. aid. Kubitschek thought the letter would amplify Ike's promise of U.S. loans for social ends, such as housing and land reform. Instead, Eisenhower merely hoped in general for "concrete results...
...chance of a warm official welcome elsewhere is slight. All the major Latin American Presidents-Argentina's Frondizi, Mexico's López Mateos, Brazil's Kubitschek, Venezuela's Betancourt, Chile's Alessandri, Colombia's Lleras Camargo-are authentic, elected democrats, friendly to the U.S. and fearful of letting Khrushchev get a foothold in the Western Hemisphere. But though Latin America is gifted with many mature and responsible top officials, it also has masses of poor and illiterate people whose grievances can be exploited. From his platform in Cuba, Khrushchev undoubtedly hopes to talk...
President Juscelino Kubitschek. creator of Brasilia, was enraged. To the Health Minister he snapped, "If you don't return, you'd better resign." To his Labor Minister he said: "Better show up here soon." When there were still only five Ministers for a Cabinet session, Kubitschek passed the word to all hooky players: "I'm accepting resignations." Back came the Cabinet-eight by week's end. Kubitschek pressured the Senate into returning May 16, ordered every Institute president to the capital within eight days, and decreed a full eight-hour working day for Brasilia...
Cruising around town in a new Brazilian version of the Alfa Romeo called the JK, Kubitschek signed autographs and shook hands by the thousands before turning up at a special midnight Mass. Out of bed after four hours of sleep, he raised a flag over the new capital, attended a joint session of Congress (where the air conditioning failed), watched a parade of 5,000 troops and 10,000 workers as 38 tons of fireworks...
Though others were fainthearted (the Senate adjourned to Rio until June 1), Kubitschek declared: "On Monday we start another blitz to finish Brasilia...