GOODWIN'S IMPRESSIVE EXPOSITION

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000300180050-8
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 11, 2016
• Document Release Date: November 25, 1998
• Sequence Number: 50
• Publication Date: March 30, 1962
• Content Type: NSPR

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CPYRGHT
oodwin's
Impressive
Exposition
CPYRGHT
By VIRGINIA PREWETT
At the hemisphere's first public examination o the
Alliance for Progress, held by New York's Over seas
Press Club last week, initial interest centered on Dep-
uty Assistant Secretary of State Richard N. Goodwin.
Mr. Goodwin had just been
recognized in the U. S. press
is President Kennedy's top
ieutenant for expediting the
Alliance. Many of the forty
xperts from the hemi-
phere's labor, diplomacy,
overnment, business, educa-
ion a n d communications
vere frankly curious to see
ow a young man at thirty,
ewly come to their field,
ould perform under fire.
STUDENT
Richard Goodwin indeed
loes not claim long expertise
n Latin America, but he is
he world's second authority
n the Alliance for Progress.
fter President Kennedy, he
as been closest to this new
leparture in U. S. foreign
olicy. His well-organized
tatement on the Alliance re-
vealed that he has done an
mpressive amount of home-
vork on U. S. foreign policy
n d Latin American prob-
ems, past and present. At
~o time did the critical ear
atch the false notes he would
One of the toughest-minded
f the self-appointed critics
resent expressed a general
eaction when he said, "I hate
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to admit, but it was a fine
exposition."
Once established that the
young man who bears s ch a
tremendous responsibility for
this new hemisphere licy
can command the respe t of
his semi-hostile elders i
open forum-and New Fron-
tiersman Goodwin did this
right on thru the rough-and-
tumble question period-his
statement is important for
the light it sheds on the scope
of the Alliance.
Mr. Goodwin made three
striking points. FIRST, that
the Alliance is an attack on
"all the ills of Latin Amer-
ica. SECOND, the Alliance
will attempt to help "the
forces of progressive dem-
ocracy" in Latin America.
THIRD, it will try to bring
to Latin America in 10 years
the social and economic evo-
lution it has taken this na-
tion and Europe a century to
achieve.
Mr. Goodwin acknowledged
freely the magnitude and
dangers of this task, and that
all the Free World and all its
resources, public and private,
must be enlisted. The cost of
success is speculative, he said,
hut the cost of failure will be
RICHARD N. GOODWIN
even higher-"the establish-
ment of a neutralist or com-
munist area covering much of
this hemisphere ... "
The President's right-hand
man for the Alliance stressed
that we cannot impose all this
-we can only offer it and
work for it.
This writer's major reserva-
tion in contemplating the full,
almost stunning intention of
the Alliance is this: Will Lat-
in Americans themselves be
able to forego their much-
indulged luxury of anti-Yan-
keeism sufficiently to grasp
what this means? Will they
then discipline their national
affairs in such a way as to
derive full benefit from it?
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nevitably have struck with-
ut a t h o r o grounding in
hese subjects.