COMMUNIST AND ANTI-COMMUNIST REACTION TO THE NIXON VISITS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80M01009A000801160003-1
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 3
• Document Creation Date: December 23, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 8, 2013
• Sequence Number: 3
• Publication Date: June 24, 1958
• Content Type: MEMO

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UBJECT Communist and Anti-Coimminist Reaction
Paraguay: Negative Report
Uruguay:
24 Junet95
n Visits
1. Appearing?on 30Ma7-1958- in the independent, Montevide0. Weekly.
publication Marche is'a commentary on the Nixon visits by the former'
president of Guatemala, entitled: 111.0re4, Provocateur: Mister NIXON...-
. 2. The Cleverly written articleoccupies a full page of this anti --
Americap,third.position tabloid, and begins bran account of the attitude
of the Uruguayan university students which was that the lice President -
would not be 'welcome at. the University. -Arevalo-statesithat the American
Shabassy was aware of the situation and advised,Nixon,accordingly. _Never ?
theless.'Nixon went to the University =la, hostile reception. Arevalo
reports that an identical situationeXisted. in Buenos Aires,. Where the
students issued a. statement to, the effect that the Vice President WbuId7
not he.. welcome. In Buenos Aires, feelings. were.. so strong against the.
Vie. President that he was delayed in his arrival at the inauguration of
President Frondizik According to Arevalo, Nixon then went on the
log day to the University of Buenos Aires where be found_ the quarrel that
be. was looking for.:
3.- Arevalo says that -this activity was a definite indication of
. what was to follow and that it was clear that the phenomenon which began
in Montevideo would increase.
? .4. In Lima, Nixon forgot that he was representing the most powerful
-country in the world, and disregarding the-recommendations of the American
AMbassador? attended San Marcos University where, he WAS not wanted 4o-wet
- of Ali, be was foolish enough:to take his wife. Arevalo comments that
' Nixon went to an Marcos As if it were an adventure.
- 5. A proposal that the road to Caracas be lined by troops was turned
down because Nixon did not want people to think that he was a coward. As '
? a resat, Nixon, as well as his wife, received the greatest mass, out..
affront ever given a person of suet an important international
position.
6. .Arevalo says that the Nixon journey became 15 tragic days for
United States prestige which had more behind it than student insolence,
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sudden mdb outbreaks and resentment concerning economic policy. *remelt)
says that the true culprit or the greatest culprit was the Vice President
who acted in every situation *like a simple and common provocateur."
7. NiXon's only true mission was that of representing the United
States at the inauguration Of the Argentine president. The rest of the
schedules according to Arevalo, was set out by Nixon with the boldness for
which he is well known. He 'personally decided Which countries he would .
visit in his triumphal tour,. "advising the appropriate governments so that
they might receive him on a good neighbor visit."
? 8. Arevalo asks what business Nixon had in going to the universities
and arguing with the students. He asks if Nixon happened to be an illust-
rious professor from an American university or even a man of letters'.
9. Arevalo asks if President Eisenhower, Who is also not known as a
contributor to culture; had charged Nixon with the task of "catechising"
the young students of Latin America.
10, Arevalo states that Nixon's presidential ambition caused him to
provoke the historical events, "justbecause." "Nixon did not come as
Vice President Of the United States; he came as a presidential candidate."
Arevalo says that Nixon could not tolerate the idea that any sector within
a clauntry on the American continent would declare him 'persona non grata
and he had to give any such sector an opportunity for an exchange of words
in which he would be able to show holt wrong they were.
11. Arevalo refers to the general inability of the Mericans to under-
stand the Latin Americans and states that Nixon came to a new world deter-
mined to find "a personal, uneharable, intransferible triumph." "He came
in search for the greatest publicity possible; strident publicity, for the
purpose of furthering his personal political career, in which the news-
papers and photographers had to be involved:" 'Be wanted news in a shower
of sparks which could be seen from New 'fork; the peal of bells; bouquets
of flowers; speeches; photographs with a baby in his arms, when speaking
to a Negro or when he extends 'a democratic' hand to a beggar.* "Publicity,
more publicity." *He has faith." "He is counting on his great experience
in demogoguery." "His symbols are his teeth and long hand." Arevalo then
launches into a short diatribe: "National symbols. Laugh while one eats
and attracts to oneself the supplies of your neighbor. The good neighbor;
The associated neighbor. Associated so that he may see you eat and applaud.
Mister Nixon wanted a tumult to surround th banquet. He wanted the tumult-
so that he could return to the metropolis Jashingto7 garlanded with
flowers as if returning from Hawaii; or w th the sand of the colonies in
his hands; as Bonaparte from Egypt.*
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"flowever, not ?return in thtnnr. -Ee r
upon.- toned., booed,- very much bo&rd. ttaekect by themobs,
. pursued that he had to -seek ? lasYlvatt In his .'oen &tbssy. II looked.or
trouble lie persisted in seeing that it. would happen."'
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