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President Eisenhower got his first chance last week to mend some of the damage done to U.S.-Latin American relations by the attacks on Vice President Richard Nixon. In a letter to Brazil's President Juscelino Kubitschek, Ike suggested "that our two governments should consult together as soon as possible with a view to approaching other members of the Pan-American community, and starting promptly on measures that would produce throughout the continent a reaffirmation of devotion to Pan-Americanism and better planning in promoting the common interests of our several countries...
...Puerto Rico's retiring New Dealing Governor Rexford Guy Tugwell chose The Stricken Land as the title for his book about the island. Today Puerto Rico: CJ Boasts a per capita income of $443 (v. $742 for West Germany, $2,009 for the U.S.), which is surpassed in Latin America only by oil-rich Venezuela. ¶ Costs the U.S. Treasury next to nothing. ¶ Governs itself in orderly democracy within an imaginative new "Commonwealth" relationship to Washington. ¶ Gives the world, anxiously watching Algeria and Cyprus, a shining example of an experimental colonial policy that turned out well...
...independence is unnecessary or even bad." Later, when Congress, piqued by anti-U.S. riots in Puerto Rico, briefly considered an independence bill that would have pushed the island outside U.S. tariff walls, Muñoz had switched his views so much that he likened the bill to the Latin American ley de fuga-the custom of freeing a prisoner and shooting him in the back "while he escapes...
...nchez Vilella, now Secretary of State (Vice-Governor). Rex Tugwell. named Governor, implanted an efficient civil service and a knack for the kind of economic planning that is flexible enough to improvise when necessary. By long tradition, the Puerto Rican government had-and never lost-a notably un-Latin reputation for incorruptibility among top officials. With these assets, Muñoz started the institution islanders call Fomento (development), a plan to "free the human spirit" in Puerto Rico by raising living standards above the animal level through industrialization...
...Puerto Rican advance is a textbook of imaginative lessons. In helping underdeveloped nations, the U.S. could well consider: ¶ A measure of tax forgiveness for corporations operating overseas, advocated by former Treasury Secretary George Humphrey to induce foreign investment. ¶ Support for big common markets-such as the proposed Latin American customs union-that will provide markets such as Puerto Rico has in the U.S. ¶ Official coolness to dictators, who are often corrupt and ultranationalistic. ¶ Greater tolerance for mixed economies in the Puerto Rican style, less insistence on making private enterprise a condition in granting loans...