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...rush about the world cautiously filling in holes their policy-making superiors have dug. Perhaps it is so; Mr. Dean Rusk, being neither a diplomat or policy-maker, but a little of both, has been digging and filling furiously during the past two weeks. He insisted on the Punta del Este conference, and had to spend his time in Uruguay extricating himself from...
With a good deal of unwarranted confidence Mr. Rusk sailed into Punta del Este asking that the O.A.S. invoke diplomatic and economic sanctions against Cuba; we must keep the hemisphere pure, he said, the Alliance depends on it. By the time the most important O.A.S. members made it perfectly clear that they could not follow Mr. Rusk's logic, that they could not, in fact, see that sending coffee and Ambassadors to Cuba would injure the Alliance, Mr. Rusk's efforts shifted direction. To his credit, he persuaded Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Bolivia, Ecuador, and Mexico to abstain from his resolution...
...despite President Kennedy's curious enthusiasm about the results of the conference and the Secretary's ingenious diplomacy, the effect of Punta del Este has been, if anything, divisive. Dr. Castro has not penetrated South America by means of his currency and rep-resentatives; his principal value to the Latin American Left has been symbolic. That value, by virtue of what the Left calls imperialist persecution, has lately increased considerably, and one may reasonably expect the outbreaks of violence of the last month to continue...
...Right, particularly the military, which has always stood as one embarassing obstacle to social reform, begins already to object to the abstention. Argentina provides at the moment the most conspicuous example; the wavering President Frondizi can scarcely cope with his generals. The nation coldest to the U.S. resolution at Punta del Este, Brazil, is also a nation where President Quadros resigned partly because of the Right's heavy criticism of his decoration of Mr. Guevara, and where a trio of generals kept a crisis going for weeks because of their hostility to the substitute President's leftist politics...
...gone to Punta del Este hoping to form a solid front with the twelve other nations* that had voted to hold the conference in the first place, and that were presumably prepared to vote for the same sort of judgment handed down against the Dominican Republic of Dictator Rafael Trujillo: joint diplomatic and economic sanctions. Only one vote was necessary for the two-thirds majority of 14 needed for approval. Six† were opposed to sanctions but apparently agreeable to less drastic action. Uruguay decided to wait...