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That was good enough to catch the promoters (and their dupes) of such notorious Communist fronts as the National Committee to Win the Peace.* Probably it would also catch the pink-tea groups, like the Congress of American Women and the Council for Pan-American Democracy. In the last analysis, if the U.S. was to have real security and no witch hunts, everything would depend upon the men running the machinery, and how they interpreted their instructions...
Larreta concluded that the U.S., through Pan-American machinery, "can contribute to democracy in the Hemisphere with a disinterestedness difficult to imagine in other powers...
Larreta. An interesting-and heartening-conflict of views on "sovereignty" v. "intervention" arose between Uruguay's Foreign Minister Eduardo Rodriguez Larreta and Sumner Welles, former U.S. Under Secretary of State. It was Larreta who urged that small nations, in the interests of a democratic Pan-American community, abandon their fears of U.S. intervention, and Welles who counseled restraint in interfering with the internal affairs of small nations. Said Larreta...
Welles. Before taking issue with Larreta, Welles made it plain that he had not lost any part of his faith in the Pan-American system he helped to build. "We would be unduly ingenuous," he said, "if we were overimpressed by the propaganda which is reaching our shores in ever-increasing volume, and which is designed to persuade us that our accomplishments are negligible, that our system is intended merely to benefit the strong at the expense of the weak, and that our form of Western democracy is an outmoded relic of a decadent past...
Welles refused to agree that "intervention" should be classified as a mere "fetish word." Referring to Larreta's attempt to force out Argentina's Peron by Pan-American action, Welles applauded the objective, but added...