TROUBLE IN LATIN AMERICA
Devere & Allen, Marie
Trouble In Latin America By DEVERE and MARIE ALLEN SECRETARY Hull is getting nowhere very fast in his "corrections" of Argentina. Rather, he is get: ting a strong reaction against the United...
...Or let the Brazilians, in return, take over and fortify LaGuardia Field...
...While beef exports dropped a bit more than eight per cent, mutton and lamb jumped by a spectacular 46...
...When a minor war official swears we will, his voice is drowned by Senators, Congressmen, or political har-anguers crying that all our bu-lessed bu-bases must be kept...
...And Argentina's export trade, our attitude notwithstanding, continues to boom...
...Roosevelt and Dewey could really have taken foreign policy out of politics and got our Latin American prestige out of the red by assuring our southern neighbors that by a specific date after the war we shall surrender every military base on Latin American soil...
...2) we have made boners in our propaganda and official relations: (3) we refused to pay, coffee-growers the price they, rightly or wrongly, wanted...
...Hull is made the butt of ridicule or resentment...
...True, she provokingly allows pro-Axis papers to be printed...
...And he was talking for the vast majority of Brazilians when he said recently that his country must be on guard against "foreign control of Brazilian industry and resources...
...but so do other Latin American countries, including bitterly anti-Nazi Mexico...
...could be threatened not only through military invasion but by transfer of key industries, by cession of strategic materials, and by entrusting important elements of national defense to foreign hands...
...Here are reasons: (1) Dictatorship doesn't shock the rulers in Rio...
...The writers have urged Americans to distrust the Buenos Aires regime from the first, but the present policy only builds it up...
...She pledged herself not to harbor war criminals...
...The crux of the matter is that most Latin Americans believe, as the Argentine people believe, that we are trying to drive a neutral nation into war while its people even more than its Government desire to remain at peace...
...She gave the United Nations rights of ^non-belligerency, a non-neutral, anti-Axis step...
...Argentina has also broken off commercial exchanges...
...For the first seven months of 1944 it was 19 per cent higher than for the same period last year...
...Actually it is no more totalitarian than Russia, Brazil, or Portugal...
...Warning From Vargas President Vargas made gestures to pro-Argentine elements not only by firing Foreign Minister Aranha, United States' friend, but by giving jobs to semi-fascist representatives...
...Brazil Is Sore Thus the colonels appear heroes, while the once-revered Mr...
...Though some of these goods were from the United States, how can we stop them going to all countries south of the border ? Brazil is sore and secretly warming to Argentina...
...And to the chuckles of Latin America, the products we have denied Argentina as a disciplinary measure are being sent her by other Latin American lands which are almost openly sympathetic...
...It has made gestures —we think all too half-heartedly—-by breaking diplomatic relations with the Axis and its satellites...
...Messrs...
...Rather, he is get: ting a strong reaction against the United States from countries until recently united with Washington but now convinced that the Argentine, admittedly dictator-ridden, is no more dictatorial than half a dozen other countries we apparently dote on...
...He could have meant only the U. S. A. and its military bases when he declared that Brazilian sovereignty...
...Latin Americans find it hard to figure out how the colonels in Buenos Aires are worse than Dictator Franco in Madrid, whom we chide now and then, praise now and then, and recognize officially all the time...
...4) above all, despite rumors of a secret agreement, our Government has riot convinced Brazilians we mean to give back the military bases in Brazil after the war...
Vol. 8 • November 1944 • No. 47
