Word: latine
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...once defined, was the most heartening. Back from the humiliation at the hands of Communist-led mobs in Venezuela came Vice President Richard Nixon. His first concern was not with redressing his personal grievances but with setting right the things that he had found wrong with U.S. policy in Latin America; it was challenge and response. On this course his perennial enemies the Democrats agreed, even though they swung on Nixon as a political target as a result of the trip (see The Vice-Presidency...
...YORK POST: VICE President Nixon's Latin American journey has ended in a total debacle for the U.S. No one can question the concern for Nixon's safety voiced by President Eisenhower. But the flamboyant flight of American troops to the scene will surely be recorded as one of the most monstrous blunders of our ill-fated Latin American diplomacy. The President, whose capacity for indecision has become historic, chose exactly the wrong moment and the wrong method to prove that he is a man of action. The President acted like the Communist caricature of the Yankee imperialist...
...WHAT a cowardly thing it would be for the United States Government to refuse to go ahead with trip previously announced and to give as the reason that it couldn't expect -from friendly governments -protection or security for a visiting delegation! Not only would the governments of Latin America have been offended, but they would have winced under the charge that they couldn't protect the distinguished visitors they themselves had invited...
Waiting for Trouble. In similar fashion, the dates of Vice President Nixon's visit to Latin America were well known in advance, and skilled agitators had only to direct a directionless mob to appropriate targets (see THE HEMISPHERE). In France, quite a different set of ambitious men (not Communist at all) anxiously watched the discontent that had long been fermenting in the exasperations of a 20-year recessional of unwon wars, in an army's disgust at political restrictions on all-out colonial defense, in a paratrooper mentality that blamed all military frustrations on the cynical surrenders...
Four hours after he reached Washington, Vice President Richard Nixon called to his Capitol office the newsmen who had traveled with him to Latin America and said: "The riots were a symptom. The real, basic question is why it happened...