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...that there would be shouts and shoving, mostly against the U.S. So, right on schedule, it came to pass. In Moscow, well-organized throngs marched on the U.S. embassy to toss inkpots and rocks; they were easily kept from getting really riotous by a phalanx of Soviet militiamen. In Rio de Janeiro, Bogotá, La Paz, Caracas, Mexico City and Buenos Aires, unruly mobs of students and workers milled in the streets and battled with police and one another. In Tokyo, left-wing students and Communists stormed around the U.S. embassy. In Egypt, Nasser-organized squads of yelling youths tried...
...Latin American nation. The sum under discussion: $500 million, with more to come. Washington's only formal announcement was a brief statement by Treasury Secretary C. Douglas Dillon noting that Brazil needs new funds for development and to consolidate its crushing debt. This week the secretary goes to Rio for a board meeting of the Inter-American Development Bank. With Brazilian planners, he will start working out the details of the aid program...
...Cubans, who knew the accuracy of the indictment, paid it the tribute of calling it "trash cunningly dreamed up by eggheads"; but unfortunately, it seemed to miss the rest of the hemisphere almost completely. The text went unpublished in Bogota and Caracas, drew not a single editorial in Lima, Rio or Buenos Aires...
...Rio de Janeiro...
...accounts of the incident spread across Brazil, a chorus of protest arose. Editorialized Rio's Correio da Manhâ: "The way Jânío Quadros received, or rather dismissed, President Kennedy's special envoy deserves sharp criticism from all Brazilians." The criticism spread to include the whole subject of Quadros' headlong rush to "neutralism" during his six weeks in office. Wrote the influential Jornal do Brasil, heretofore one of Quadros' staunchest supporters: "Quadros, who in his campaign stressed the impossibility of ignoring the importance and existence of Red China, now appears to ignore...