SQUALLS BELOW THE RIO GRANDE
Devere & Allen, Marie
Squalls Below The Rio Grande By DEVERE And MARIE ALLEN ANTIPATHY to the "Yanqui" is still strong in the minds of many Latin Americans, but few have made a more forthright case than the Mexican...
...Because of this, Cosio Villegas fears, the days after the war are likely to see an increase in hostility toward the nephews of Uncle Sam, on the part of the Latin American peoples...
...Tourists as ambassadors fall very low in the esteem of this out-spoken critic...
...Yankee statesmen he finds equally lacking in psychological finesse...
...he asserts that no less a figure than President Nicholas Murray Butler of Columbia University, at the awarding of the Moors-Cabot prize in journalism last year to a Latin American newspaper, "wishing to be amiable to us, extended himself in a grand eulogy of the progress achieved by the 'democracy' of Santo Domingo !" Yankee patronage of dictators in general, this critic appears to feel, lies behind most of the unfavorable reactions of the peoples south of the Rio Grande...
...Cosio Villegas, among other things, contrasts the German and the North American...
...DO we like dictators ? Cosio Villegas thinks so, if we go by the record...
...all in good faith, but with total ignorance of Latin idiosyncrasies...
...Prof...
...The fawning of some North American intellectuals on Dictator Tru-jillo of the Dominican Republic, who has recently been spurned by the new Venezuelan government, stirs him deeply...
...they apply in relations with the southern neighbors the same methods they use in local politics—"a little bluff, much rudeness, table-pounding, a complete absence of sensitivity...
...The former, he says, is excellent as an individual, but in the mass becomes unbearable, nationalistic, and dangerous to the world...
...But the North American in the aggregate builds a fine, progressive, productive civilization, whereas he is intolerable as an individual...
...Squalls Below The Rio Grande By DEVERE And MARIE ALLEN ANTIPATHY to the "Yanqui" is still strong in the minds of many Latin Americans, but few have made a more forthright case than the Mexican economist and author, Daniel Cosio Vil-legas...
...His frank strictures were originally written for the Revista de America, but they were taken up by the Bogota daily, El Tiempo, and have been given wide circulation throughout the continent...
...There is nothing in the world," he exclaims, "more lamentable than a nor t earner icano who travels...
Vol. 9 • December 1945 • No. 49
