WITH THE DULLES BROTHERS IN DARKEST GUATEMALA

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP70-00058R000100100025-2
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 17, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 12, 2000
• Sequence Number: 25
• Publication Date: June 20, 1954
• Content Type: NSPR

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#w YORK ~I JUN 2 0 1954
Foster Dulles, the Secreteuy of Star
fair$ of other countries, but his broth
malan situation for a long time.
It was his associates who spotted
the big shipment of Czech arms from
Stettin to Guatemala in the first
place. They followed it through a
maze of phony manifests, from one
misleading port-of-cell to another,
have beetractive in the defense of the
arena ever' since.,
The. guess ; here I$ that 'the revolt
agIdnst the; Commuulits will succeed
it th0 Guateinwan Army. is as divided
Politically, the, United States hire
responded effectively -over;;tbelast
calryprinciples. Theodore,Booaevelt's
corollary` to the Mohrde -Doctrine of
1905 was revoked. The-Marrlnes were
withdrawn from NiCaragua'and Haiti.
The Platt Amendment was repealed,
Woodrow Wilson's unilateral doctrine
of non-recognition was abandoned;
and the good-neighbor policy estab-
lished.
Flaw ? in the Crystal.;
It Is one "of the ironies of the pres-
ent situation that officials in Wash-
ington are coming to believe that the
solution to this problem lies do the
development of a unified continental
economic system, which is about the
oldest principle of the Pan-American
ideal.
As Ezequiel Padilla, the former
Foreign Minister of Mexico. reminds
us in Foreign Affairs, the Pan
American Union was originally called
the Roosevelts the resentment against
war the dollar surpluses built up by
the sale of raw materials- from 1941
ican Republics." The first conference,
in 1889, put forward the idea-still
45 have vanished, and the condition bank to help develop Latin America.,
of the people has steadily declined. but whenever the question of con-
During the first five post-war structing a unified continental eco-
years the United States put out nomic system is raised the Pan-
more than $25 billion in grants and American spirit seems to wane.
et private direct investment capital
pment or the fields of education,
ealth, transportation, irrigation or
ent of raw materials for export.
While billions were crossing the
illusion. It resents the stronb Latin-
American support for the United
States at the United Nations,' It fears
United States bases of operation near
its own frontiers and is now obviously
trying to establish Communist Gov-
ernments near ours.
Mr. Dulles (Allen, that is) can rio
Gu te--ia-Rut-1 will
r Vulles an a ongfess "fo bring
about a policy-change that will deal
with the central nomic problems
conomies against the threat of com-"of the hemisphere.
n..w....... ~..
iunism Latin America's appeals for
perience in dealing with the misery
and nationalism of Indochina the Sec-
retary of State is in a mood to review
United States policies in the under-
developed areas of the world. As he
sees it, the great political battle of the
next generation is going to come in
these poverty-stricken areas, and the
'Guatemalan crisis is a reminder that
Latin America is o~e of the battle-
fields.
A -Disillusioned Continent
Latin America is not only fragmen-
tized politically rind economically but
disillusioned by the United States' em-
phasis on military power. The dreams
of continental economic solidarity, en-
couraged by Washington during the
last war,, have not been realized, and
the hopes of a post-war prosperity
have bean disappointed.
Marshall Plan of its own were Ig- t
ored. Washington's money, it
emed
il
bl
l
, was ava
a
e on
y to fight
e Communists, and this itself en-
an communism.
This very problem was foreseen !
rnatives were clear, and honest men
ffered about which policy to adopt. .
pursue limited objectives in Latin :
merica, such as procuring defense
ry support from our neighbors, or t
pursue the long-range objectives,
which Latin America was prima-'
oyment and productivity; improv-
g living standards; and sound and
panding economies."
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