YOU ASKED FOR MY REACTION TO YOUR CARIBBEAN AIR POWER PAPER. THESE IS THEM.

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• Document Release Date: June 29, 2001
• Sequence Number: 49
• Publication Date: July 27, 1948
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27 July 1948
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SUBJECT s You asked for my reactions to your Carribean Air Power paper.
Then Is then.
As it is wmritteno I don't th3ni this would do such for the public
but bewilder it. It may be a mare reflection of s pelarsonal ignorance,
but the more information that Cuba, Haiti, Venesussla, Gu&tae+ .a, and
Costa Rios are in opposition to Nicaragua, the Dominican Republic, and
Honduras (while 31 daalvaador whatavw- that is Minntains difficult neutrality)
would come, I should think, as a distinct mhoso to 99k of each
100 readsria. The allegation that in this area the "dictatorships" are
wabattled against the "demooracise' night well alarm the ant reader
while be secretly wondered which was which.
Ott I should visualize instead of this pages' would be a treatment:
In which, after a polite bow to the obvious US Interest in Caribbean
stability, the beenamea' sligma sots amend, reaasons thwcefipw would br# s~cpla'la~ed.
That might aaeei sight not made' a fairly odeapoehsnsivi -study. Then,
you sated to bring In this matter of Mr. Trujillo'a air pOw.r?>-strictly
in relation to the power blocs and subordinate to tbow-you might do so.
To auaauw, as the paper does, a prior knowledge of international
.politics in the area, and then to dwell, on the fact that one country
jpst got a shipment of five mosquitoes, is on the Cm hand to engage In
unwarranted flattery and on the other to baffle a majority who think of
the Dominican Republic an ' ' an island which could have the world's
largest ad moutpc srful air fleet without makig the slightest difference
to atmbody.
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