BRAZILIANS STARVE, U.S. DALLIES

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP74-00297R001100670012-7
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 23, 2016
• Document Release Date: May 14, 2013
• Sequence Number: 12
• Publication Date: May 29, 1958
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2013/05/14: CIA-RDP74-00297R001100670012-7
WASHINGTON MERRY-GO-ROUND
Brazilians Starve, U. S. Dailies
(EDITORS' NOTE: Drcio Pearson Puts *ow
returned to Washington. He still has some int-
o portant news gathered behind thitiron Curtain
and will alternate this material with columns
from Washington.)
By DREW PEARSON
WASHINGTON, May 28?Here are some
of the backstage reasons why our good ?neigh-
bora in Latin America have soured on the
United States.
While Vice President Nixon was advocating
sports and culture to win friends in Latin
America, the State Department had dilly-dallied
about sending some of our huge reserves of
food to the starving population of sun-parched
eastern Brazil.
The blistering drought has burned up the
crops and dried up the streams of Brazil's
easternmost hump, causing terrible human suf-
fering. Poverty-stricken peasants, particularly
babies, have been dying by the dozens of mal-
nutrition.
One man in Washing-
ton who has tried to do
something about this
drought is Harold Coo-
ley, hard-working chair-
man of the House Agri-
:ulture Committee. Coo-
ley has been on the tele-
phone to the State and
Agriculture Depart. ments, calling for an
emergency airlift to
rush food from our sur-
plus stocks.
The North Carolina
Congressman learned,
however, that all the
State Department did
.about the Brazilian
famine was send one
cable offering dried
milk. Dried milk, of c?turs, requires water
to mix. Since people are acratng holes in
dry river beclt for water, the dried milk would
be about as %toeless as dust in most of the
stricken areas.
COOLEY HAS called upon the Agriculture
department fur a .Nrclete inventory of surplus
food at. allable her shipment to Brazil. He has
also asked thit their Department to cable Brazil
again to clear Aille way for food shipments.
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mittee to report on .Brazil's famine needs. ?
When State Deportment ottleiale heard M.
Cooley's plea to cell the ambeeoador,c4012'
cautioned it would violate diplomatic pr
A foreign ambassador they said does not ap-
pear before a etingsendowel cosonsittee. ?
'Protocol beet Worth a tinker's dent to
starving ptppitt" tles North Oar Whalen snorted.
Meanwhile, he has received reports that the
Communists are using
the, famine to stir 'up
lirstWs.ns against the
United States. Cooley
hopes to counteract
Coomtunist propaganda
with something more
tangible than good will
speeches.
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Dulles may .
calicZtards good will
gic South America
His ?I Say.
Allen.
head it Central Intelli-
gence, has warned him
that the Communists
are plotting riots
against him similar to
those against Nixon.
John Foster hadplan-
ned to visit the other South American ons
which Nixon skipped. Rep. Charles Rnitter,
vigorous critic of dictators, has bee ted
by Venezuela to visit Caracas. They 4feU
show the congressman how thtJ 'treat
Americans who share their views shE ? dicta-
tots. . Nixon returned from his gibe of ?
South America furious at the Stiitts6
ment. He's- now determined to do si trni
even if it means tangling with Secretv
He wants the resignation of as* Sec-
retary of State Rcjabottom of ,
Latin American plus n
? a
organization of the Amer! o and
the recall of at least 'four
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