Word: press
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Lunch. Sukarno won all down the line. While Moscow and Peking clamored their willingness to send hordes of "volunteers." Washington did a nearly complete about-face. Secretary of State John Foster Dulles told a press conference that the rebellion was, of course, an "Indonesian matter" to be dealt with by Indonesians alone; the State Department promptly issued licenses for the immediate sale of small arms and munitions to Djakarta; the U.S. eagerly agreed to send Indonesia $5,500,000 worth of badly needed rice. All of these measures had been proposed even before the rebellion began by the then...
Before a standing-room-only audience of newsmen in Washington's National Press Club, Vice President Richard Nixon spoke for far-reaching revision.* Said Nixon: "What we must do is to show that when private enterprise and the United States come into Latin America, we do so not for the purpose of simply keeping in power the elite." He deprecated U.S. diplomats who concentrated on "white-tie dinners," adding that "the universities and the labor movement [are] the wave of the future." Do we leave the field to the Communists? If we do, said Nixon, "we are going...
Dulles Speaks. Secretary of State John Foster Dulles stood up for current U.S. policies. But he was not intransigent; he told his press conference that "our policy must constantly be adapted to new situations. But I do not believe there is anything basically different that we can do." Dulles pointed out that if the U.S. began drawing distinctions between Latino governments "on the basis of whether they were dictatorial or not," it would violate "one of the cardinal doctrines for this hemisphere . . . noninterference in the internal affairs of other countries...
...Latino press, Nixon's stand for revision was enough to transform him into a hemisphere hero. Said Caracas' El National: "Nixon [did] not lose sight of the vast problems of Latin America, which have nothing to do with Communism, and Nixon has moved a large section of North American opinion." Said the Mexico City weekly Siempre: "We stand with Mr. Nixon...
Last week, for the first time in this century, Argentina's navy fired in anger at a foreign target-maybe. President Arturo Frondizi called a press conference at the Casa Rosada to announce the news. The President disclosed that an Argentine squadron had sighted a periscope while on fleet exercises in Golfo Nuevo, a quiet Patagonian bay, and carried out four depth-charge attacks when the sub ignored the warning to surface as required by international...