Word: timed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...clearly intends to point with pride to the base agreement in the forthcoming Philippine off-year elections, was quick to praise Bohlen's statesmanship and to declare that "less capable hands" might have imperiled U.S.-Philippine friendship. But Garcia's warmth did not necessarily augur an easy time for Bohlen's prospective successor, John D. Hickerson, now U.S. Ambassador to Finland. Still left for Hickerson to settle: the long-standing dispute as to how much jurisdiction Philippine courts should have over U.S. servicemen...
...opportunity for the Latin American swing came from Western dawdling that failed to put Turkey into the race until last month. That gave Poland time to ask for commitments from the Latin Americans. They agreed because of three factors...
...Nervo puts it, "the Latin Americans do not follow instructions from anybody except their own governments." Compared to the Soviet bloc, which votes solid on every question, Latin America is ruggedly independent. In 1957, for example, Mexico, Guatemala, Haiti and Bolivia disagreed with the U.S. more than half the time...
...same time the people who were already in the city "find their own customs and way of life under the pressure of strangers they do not understand. They fear the threat to their own values. This is the fear that is reflected in the gradual creation of a stereotype of the Puerto Rican as criminal...
Only on major cold-war issues does Latin America usually side with the U.S. -and even then there is always the temptation to pluck a feather from the eagle. Example: admission to the U.N. of Red China, which has been staging a major propaganda drive across Latin America (TIME, July 27). Last month Cuban Delegate Manuel Bisbe made the first open gesture by abstaining from backing the block-Red China bloc. Now Brazil's U.N. delegate, Augusto Frederico Schmidt, blusters that "popular outcry in our countries is becoming so strong on the Red China issue that we may soon...