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Most U.S. citizens still look on Latin America as a backward land of revolutions, strong men and cloak & dagger conspirators. In the July Foreign Affairs, a State Department planner who signs himself "Y,"* argues thoughtfully that surface appearances are misleading; beneath their often tempestuous politics, the Latin American nations are going forward toward orderly, democratic government. Writes...
...problems of India, and its people, including Jawaharlal Nehru, now Prime Minister. When the Punjab hired Mayer, Nehru said: "Let this be a new town symbolic of the freedom of India, unfettered with the traditions of the past." Designer Mayer was delighted with the prospect. Said he: "To a planner it is tremendously exciting. We start with just a blank sheet of paper and do as wonderfully or as badly as we can. It is an architect's dream...
Thermometer or Tool? He and Chairman Nourse were constantly at loggerheads. Nourse, onetime vice president of Brookings Institution, who thought of himself as an economist and nothing else, stuck pretty close to economic orthodoxy. Keyserling, an avid Government planner, was further to the left. The council's third member, John D. Clark, skittered around vaguely somewhere in between. The chief difference between Nourse and Keyserling was in their interpretations of CEA's job. Nourse thought it was chiefly to hold a thermometer under the nation's tongue and dispassionately report the results. Keyserling thought...
...Planner Keyserling could find plenty of pat reasons for assuring the President that there was nothing to worry about in the staggering $255 billion national debt. He could find fair-sounding reasons for supporting Harry Truman's threat to break into the steel industry with Government-run plants, reasons why the President should demand new curbs over business. Such glib reasoning was too much for Dr. Nourse, but judging from last week's appointment, it was just right with Mr. Truman. Businessmen, whom Keyserling recently had been trying to win over by soft words, kept their fingers crossed...
...year ago, when Stalin purged Economics Planner Nikolai Voznesensky from the Politburo, a top U.S. diplomat in Moscow said: "Voznesensky made one big mistake. He tried too hard to please Stalin by turning out capital goods [to rebuild Russia] instead of consumer goods. He thought the Russian people could wait a little longer while he made a good showing. What the average Russian wanted was a pair of pants...