Word: tabooed
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...Salvador, an American fiscal expert made the mistake of wearing white shoes to the office. He was practically ostracized, until a friend tipped him off that white shoes are taboo in the country. Thereupon he bought a pair of brown shoes and "noticed the immediate im provement in reception of myself and my technical advice...
Ingrained Taboo. For generations, the world looked on the Monroe Doctrine as bedrock U.S. foreign policy. But the U.S. itself saw a need for supplementing the unilateral Monroe Doctrine with a system of hemispheric collective security. The result was the 1947 Inter-American Treaty of Reciprocal Assistance, better known as the Rio Pact, which provides that "an armed attack by any State against any American State shall be considered an attack against all the American States." The principle of inter-American collective security against aggression was reaffirmed in the charter of the Organization of American States, drawn up at Bogota...
...declaration against Castro, the U.S. must persuade a majority of Latin American nations to agree to take "appropriate action"-or at least endorse such action by the U.S. In trying to get the Caracas declaration translated into action, the U.S. runs smack up against the old, ingrained Latin American taboo against "intervention...
Compelling Task. Persuading Latin American governments to abandon that taboo and recognize that intervention in Cuba is necessary to the peace and safety of the Hemisphere is the Administration's most compelling diplomatic task in Latin America. Last week State Department officials in Washington and U.S. envoys all over the Hemisphere were urging upon Latin American leaders the need for an inter-American conference to draw up new rules that will enable the Hemisphere to cope with Communist subversion and rebellion...
...from speaking here about his case? (Willard Uphaus, who spoke in the fall of 1959, meets those specifications.) Or does the trouble come not from the case's pending nature itself, but from the possibility that Seeger will finally lose? If Seeger's appeal fails, will he remain taboo after his sentence is served? (Alger Hiss spoke at Princeton under those conditions.) The only circumstances under which court action could be relevant to a matter such as this would be if the individual concerned were in jail, and thus unable to appear...