FOREIGN RADIO REACTIONS TO THE HAVANA ECLA CONFERENCE

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• Document Release Date: March 8, 1999
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• Publication Date: July 18, 1949
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FOREIGN DOCUMENTS OR RADIO BROADCASTS
INFORMATION FROM
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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGE
Approvec0IfiII&T
COUNTRY Foreign Radios
SUBJECT .Fc IG N RADIO REACTION TO $APANA
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HOW
P1 B1! ISH D Monitored' Radio Bro east
DATE
PUBLISHED 1.20 June 1949
LANGUAGE Several
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I ODUCTION: Co ent. frcma monitored European sources on the FCLA conference at Ravana
thich b6gen on 29 May and ended on 11 A me, is non-exixtent, while Latin American redia offer
5nly a few advance rfferences of limited local interest, mostly announcing that We or that
3fficia has been appointed to, or has departed for, the conference.
So iet comment,* also light on the Subject of the conference as such, is integrated Into
.be maj theme of "Yankee imperialism" and its schemes to bring Latin America undEr its heel.
broadcast by commentator gergeeva, who jointly attacks the LCLA conference iu Ha'i.na and the
LO regional meeting at Montevideo, sets the pace by stating that "the U.S. plan fcr the
-evel gat of backward territories aims solely at enslaving the colonial countries and
ha it the hegemony of the American monopolies." (in French, 14 June 1949)
Later, there is a TASIS report-.repeated by an ano ous comlmentator over Mosec.a's "Latin
erieaA Listening Post"--that the FCLA conference "closed down without having acccapliehed any
tactical measures towards alleviating the increasing economic difficu],ties in the majority of
3ie Latin American countries.94 (TABS, in Ziglieh Morse to Europe, 16 June; Moscow Overseas
ervice, in Spanish voice to Latin America, 20 June)
See also FBIB's weekly SUR OF USSR RADIO BROADCASTS, Vol. II, No. 25, 23 JVW 1949,
pp. A 7 and R 5-6; and No. 26, 30 J -me 1949, p. E 2.
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U.No ~s He1~ U S. Exolait Latin America: On the surface, says commentator Serireeva, the
Havana conference had the "highly respectable" task of implementing the'Truman plat for aiding
backward areas, but in reality, the aim of the American plan is to "provide the A wican
monopolies with suitable conditions for penetrating colonial countries." And spearing in the
came breath of ILO's Montevideo conference, she adds that this conference "was hell officially
for the purpose of examining the problem of the industrialization of South America, but ;a
ract to transform ILO into an instrument for the economic expansion of the United ")tates 1m
South America."
"One may ask what need the United States has of international bodies such as -,he
U.N.-and ILO to penetrate into South'America, where they are already at home, as it
were. 'The explanation is that the enormous appetites of the monopolies encouiter
considerable difficulties in these countries: American capital stifles the n3,ional
industries; American monopolies get hold of raw materials, exploit the people- and
hamper the industrial development of the countries of South America. In thee'
circumstances, opposition to U.S. imperialism represents areal danger, and ptwr-
fidiouc plans must be made to chain the backward countries." (in French, 14 Tune
1949)
the above-mentioned 20 dame broadcast (in Spanish to Latin America) seems to eombito the TASS
statement of 16 dune, that the conference adjourned without any practical results, with large
segments of the Sergeeva commentary quoted above. "In appearance," it says, "the : ;-1an discussed
in Havana is praiseworthy. ... But in reality, its true purpose is very different, as has been
:-eyealed not by ECLA but by the press controlled by the American monopolies."
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