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Jose A. Mora, Secretary General of the OAS, spoke Wednesday at a luncheon given at the Pan American Union to spur the Latin American fund drive.
After eight days on the scene in Panama, a five-nation OAS investigation team (Brazil, Costa Rica, Mexico, Paraguay, Uruguay) flew back to Washington last week, unwilling to side either with Panama or the U.S. on the Jan. 9 Canal Zone riots. Officially the investigators kept a diplomatic silence pending...
Behind the scenes, the OAS tried hard to bring the two nations back to the conference table. The U.S. repeatedly assured Panama of its willingness to discuss all grievances once diplomatic relations were resumed. But the Panamanians, if anything, were becoming even more rigid in their demands for an advance...
All OAS efforts at quiet mediation had failed. Nor would any U.S. gesture of conciliation shake Panama's deter mination for a showdown over the canal. And so last week, the OAS unhappily voted 16-1, Chile alone dissenting, to invoke the Rio pact and formally investigate Panama'...
Latin Americans have long complained that the Alliance for Progress is less an alliance than a series of bilateral aid agreements between the U.S. and 19 hemisphere nations. The U.S. now agrees, and at an Alianza meeting in Sao Paulo last November, an eight-man inter-American executive committee was...