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Peacemakers. At his press conference last week. President Eisenhower said that "there is no sense closing our eyes to the situations in Central America and the Caribbean; but we do look primarily to the OAS to take the initiative, otherwise we again could be called dollar imperialists or something else...
In Washington the Organization of American States met, listened to a Panamanian plea for help against "international pirates," sent an investigating team. While patrol boats and planes contributed by the U.S., Ecuador and Colombia scouted the Caribbean and the Panamanian coast for signs of a rumored reinforcement fleet, Invader Chief...
Only real winner: Dominican Republican Dictator Rafael Leonidas Trujillo, who has a firm precedent for appealing to the OAS if and when Cuban rebels try to help overthrow him.
Peace Voter. In 1954, Lleras gave up his plush OAS post, returned to Bogotá as a private citizen. Talking and writing, he made himself the sober advocate of truce in the passionate political war, of a return to political sanity. Then, flying to Spain, he sat down amicably with...
In the U.N. last week Russian and Guatemalan delegates had struggled to make any investigation of the war a Security Council matter-Russia doubtless relishing the potentialities for propaganda and mischief. But the U.S. point of view-that ending the war was a task for the Organization of American States...