MANN UNDERLINES FARM REFORM AS VITAL TO LATIN DEVELOPMENT

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• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP73-00475R000100400008-5
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• Document Creation Date: December 27, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 30, 2013
• Sequence Number: 8
• Publication Date: May 14, 1964
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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NEW :YORK TIMES
MAY 4 1964
Vann Underlines Farm Reform
As Vital to Latin evelopmerat
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Aide Asserts Success
? . .of Alliance Also Requires
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r LargeAmountsof Capital
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. Special to The New York Times
WASHINGTON, May 13
.The United States continued
?ttoday to define its policies on
M16 Latin America.
.1; The Assistant Secretary of
-..zState for Inter-American Al-
fairs, Thomas ? C. Mann, -vie-
f.scribed the Administra:tion's
f.economic and social objectives
;under the Alliance for Progress
an address to the Washing-
kon Institute of Foreign Af-
fairs.
; Mr. Mann's speech followed
;by two days President John-
,son's major statement of United
I?States policies in an address to
mbassadors from Latin-Amer-
ican republics at the White
House. r
's The President's speech, widely
-"praised by ?Latin-American
i diplomats, emphasized mainly
t.the political aspects of the
1t:United States' attitude: toward
? ? !the Alliance?the support for
vlemocratic regimes and for a
democratic social revolution.
Mr. Mann concentrated on the
specifity and concreteness" of
the program. ,
This was Mr. Mann's first
statement since he be-
came the chief coordinator of
'4United States. policies in Latin 7
l'America last December.
Farm Problem Stressed
He said tha t the Alliance was
7giving a "high. priority" to the
'LLatin-American farmer because
.half the population of the re- ?
lives in rural areas and .
farm production must be in-:
creased to raise the income of,
;?t,the whole society.. ? I
"A technological revolution inj
FJ..atin?American agriculture", is,
'inecessary, he said. It should in-'
.L.'clude such elements of a sound,.
`2agrarian reform- program. as
'improved tenure systems and
zfarm-to,market ? roads,"...:. he
tadded. ' A
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Thomas C. Mann
"the Alliance is as conderned! ?
:,..about the worker as it is abouqr,-- -
'Torts of the `developing country
',..the farmer," h2r. Mann ob- II
i
!I :serVed, because it cannot sue-to create conditions propitious'
ceed "unless it develops a labor for,
economic growth and social
force of, growing skills and in- 1,progress,"' he said.
?,,, creasing ability to produce in a
.modern society. . U.S.' Ag?eni..---y Assailed -
,.
He said that Latin-American
'
,economies would require "very RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil,
;large amounts of capital," for
1 o'? f ra rh el3Fo(oAdPior-Pe The
pdriorgeratom
'their development and one way
fi
in Brazil charged today that to get it is to increase ? taxi
revenues substantially. Each !bureaucracy of the United Slate
i
'..'country must decide on its own !Agency for International De-
tax reform policy, he said.
rvelopment was "destroying the
While the United States wiulAlliance for Progress.'
?,..!
? go on meeting its obligations; Leonard Wolf, a former
*under the Alliance in providing! United States Congressman
f. development capital, the Latinifrom Iowa, said in an vew that, the United States inter-
American countries must .takel
t
"adequate self-help measures,"Iforeign aid program was bog-
Mr. Mann said. .
1 ged down in a "system de-
" .relate the amount of oWe therefore must cohtinudi signed to eliminate the pose
to 1,1 ' unsibility of personal identifica-
ition .
inanciai assistance to the ef-
With a mistake" ,
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