FAILURE IN SOUTH AMERICA
Rodell, Katherine
Failure In South America WHAT THE SOUTH AMERICANS THINK OF US, . by Carleton Beals, Herschel BriekettrSamuel Guy In-man, and Bryce Oliver. Robert M. McBride & Co. $3. . Reviewed by Katherine...
...From these basic criticisms come other comments and conclusions—that most South Americans have a good deal of sympathy with Argentina's success in standing up to United States pressure...
...Oliver is particularly useful for the refreshingly clear light it throws on the enigmatic Vargas...
...and the reactionary, indeed almost fascistic, attitudes of many U. S. businessmen in South America...
...The others wrote merely as working journalists...
...Brickell wrote as assistant Chief of the American Republics Section of the Division of Cultural Cooperation in Washington and that his experience in Colombia was largely gained while he served as Cultural Attache to the United States Embassy in Bogota...
...Inman, and Mr...
...that the British, shrewdly exploiting the resentment and suspicion of the United States, are far more popular than we are...
...The four authors, each dealing with a different country or group of countries, give an unvarnished picture of the United States as seen through Latin eyes, and it is not a pretty one...
...Reviewed by Katherine Rodell "WHAT the South Americans Think of Us'r is' not a book to read if you want to keep any illusions you may have as to what a great, democratic, noble, and efficient country the United States is...
...Beals, Dr...
...The accounts of Mr...
...With unpleasantly emphatic unanimity they agree that the greatest criticism of the United States stems from three causes—our unwillingness or inability to distinguish between dictators and democrats in Latin America ; our race consciousness and Jim Crowism...
...Oliver are excellent, and that of Mr...
...that in promoting our long-term commercial well-being and even our national safety we have been stupid to the point of imbecility for refusing to understand the interests and attitudes of our nearest neighbors...
...Brickell's section on Venezuela and Colombia is the poorest of the lot—full of vague and fuzzy generalities...
...It is perhaps significant that Mr...
Vol. 9 • November 1945 • No. 46
