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Dates: during 1950-1959
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¶ recommendation fromOregon's Senator Wayne Morse, visiting in Buenos Aires, that the U.S. aid state oil monopolies, such as Argentina's.
¶ complaint from Indiana's Senator Homer Capehart, who said after a tour of Latin America that the U.S. appoints too many do-nothing committees.*
¶ A sober warning by Central Intelligence Agency Director Allen Dulles that Latin American Communists gathered in Moscow last February, got orders to use the slogans of nationalism to "break the ties of friendship" with the U.S
Stop & Start. The main theme of criticism is that the U.S. merely reacts to events-"stop-and-start" diplomacy, Capehart calls it-rather than taking imaginative initiative. One example of policy drift was Panama, where the U.S. was hastening to make concessions after a series of riots. Other examples: the...
* Even Harry Truman got into the act, with a judgment that Fidel Castro "would be all right if he had a haircut and decent clothes."