Word: mann
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Since Kennedy's death, this clear vision has been replaced by myopia. Thomas C. Mann, Assistant Secretary of State for Inter-American Affairs, indicated Wednesday that he was unable to distinguish between democratic regimes and rightist dictatorships in Latin America. This is doubly alarming, since Mann has been entrusted by the President with sole responsibility for U.S. policy in this area; his speech therefore indicates what Johnson's Latin American policy will probably...
Speaking at a briefing of high-ranking officials, Mann said that the former U.S. policy aimed at restraining dictatorships had proved unworkable. He further stated that the new administration's aims would be four: 1) Fostering of economic growth, 2) Protection of U.S. investment, 3) Non-intervention in the internal affairs of the republics, and 4) Opposition to Communism...
...certain sense, of course, Mann is right. As the futile ten-year struggle to oust Peron demonstrated, American attempts to unseat Latin American dictators have been largely ineffective. The danger of a policy of supporting dictatorships, however, is that they eventually fall. At that time, those who supported them become targets for legitimate resentments aroused by the dictators...
...Mann's four points, they sin more by omission than commission. There is no mention in his speech of the struggle for economic reform and social justice to which the United States pledged itself at Punta del Este. The agrarian reform and changes in tax structure which are fundamental prerequisites of meaningful development in Latin America can scarcely be attained by a policy of protecting U.S. interests. Mann's declared policy aims represent, in fact, the abandonment of all the promising features of the Alliance for Progress, and a regression to the diplomacy of short-sighted pecuniary interest characteristic...
Princeton's Jed Graef was another league swimmer who fell victim to an upset-minded non-Ivy. North Carolina's Thompson Mann knocked off the Tiger captain in the 100-yard backstroke