Word: manne
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Dominican Republic, notably Arkansas' Democratic Senator J. William Fulbright, charge that the U.S. has destroyed the concept of nonintervention and has set a perilous precedent for acting against any Latin American movement into which Communists have insinuated themselves. Last week Under Secretary of State Thomas C. Mann, chief architect of hemisphere policy, set the record straight...
...Nonintervention is a keystone of the structure of the inter-American system," Mann told the Inter-American Press Association in San Diego, Calif...
...frustrate such intervention, the U.S. had to move militarily into the Dominican civil war. The U.S., said Mann, supported neither the so-called "reactionary" right nor the "constitutionalist" left, but worked for a cease-fire and a long-range solution. Would the U.S. do it again? Of course, suggested Mann. At the same time, it is ridiculous to assume that the U.S. will send in the marines any time, any place someone cries Communists. "A number of Latin American governments have been able to stand up against subversive elements. But it is equally true that other states are vulnerable simply...
...precisely these weaker nations that may sometimes need more help than Alianza aid or other good works to thwart Communist aggression. "In my experience," concluded Mann, "the men who have contributed most to the social, economic and political reform in this hemisphere are men who have understood that the Communist danger is not met by good works alone...
...Jacques Rousseau declared that education should strive to prepare a child for the world about him, not for the hereafter. Switzerland's Johann Pestalozzi urged schools to stop the "empty chattering of mere words" and help children to learn through observation, experimentation and reasoning. In the U.S., Horace Mann, contending that education could become "the most effective and benignant of all the forces of civilization," vastly strengthened the Massachusetts system of free public schools for the poor as well as the rich...