Word: mann
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Thomas Mann and Miguel J. Moreno Jr., Panamanian ambassador to the OAS, finally agreed to accept the committee's delicately worded formula for restoring relations. Next day, however, President Johnson abruptly rejected the agreement, leaving the U.S.-Panamanian impasse exactly where it was eleven weeks ago, after the bloody Canal Zone riots...
More Muscle. While all this sounded good-as the Alianza's promises have all along-the Administration's performance in Latin American policy continued to raise questions. Word leaked that Assistant Secretary of State Thomas Mann told the U.S. ambassadors that the Administration planned to jettison as ineffective the U.S. policy of withholding diplomatic recognition and economic aid from new military regimes that take power by force. In the past three years, six Latin American governments-Argentina, Peru, Guatemala, Ecuador, the Dominican Republic and Honduras-have been overthrown by military coups. And in every case, temporary U.S. nonrecognition...
...When Mann denied any basic policy shift, a State Department spokesman explained: "U.S. policy toward unconstitutional governments will, as in the past, be guided by the national interest and the circumstances peculiar to each situation as it arises." This approach echoed the pragmatism Mann has been preaching since he took over the Latin America job in January. But now the tone seemed somewhat firmer in its suggestion that the Johnson Administration expects to employ greater flexibility and possibly more muscle in U.S. dealings in Latin America...
...Latin American policies, but President Johnson may have decided that the domestic political damage from concessions to Panama would outweigh the benefits for his Latin American policies. The "tough" and "pragmatic" approach, revealed last week in Johnson's speech to the OAS and in Assistant Secretary Thomas G. Mann's reported remarks to the assembled U.S. ambassadors, does not depend upon popular approval in Latin America. Neither does it attract popular approval, which the U.S. must have to champion democratic revolution as an alternative to Castro's kind. Therefore, the Administration should be especially careful to exploit every opportunity...
...That Mann would scuttle the Alliance was not unexpected in Latin America. Last November, former President Alberto Lleras Camargo of Colombia, a firm friend of the United States and of the Alliance, refused to head the inter-American committee which will administer the Alliance because he mistrusted Mann's views on social reform. But that the Alliance should be abandoned with so little ceremony was not foreseen. Mann's statement in effect gives a green light to the military in Latin America. With rightist elements in Brazil and eleswhere clamoring for military take-over in their countries, it will...