NEW REALITIES OAS GROWS UP

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00001R000100160126-1
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• Document Creation Date: December 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 23, 2000
• Sequence Number: 126
• Publication Date: May 26, 1965
• Content Type: NSPR

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New Realities ? ? ? ? By William S. White
OAS Grows Up
which in,the \orth"Atlantic decent.
cial points This sort of attack is
that it will Treaty Organization has long
be no dicta- protected Europe from Com nothing new to any head of
torship or "` munist military encroach- the C e n t r a l Intelligence
ment has been forged at last Agency, in whatever eircum-
either far- h stance. It was a little odd as
left or far- in this hemisphere. to Adm. William F. Raborn,
right. Seen in perspective, in the CIA's brand-new head
the Domini- n ently largely Yankee, it' is :first. And he does not be-
lieve that all.Anicrican husi
can Repub- an honest-to God common
lie, except to sh?teld. The sort cif shield ness hi Latin America is in-
note the cru-
IT 16 ear y to ore- today in the Dominican Re- ?
cast" the precise outlines of public under the command crime is unforgivable. I3e
openly believes that the life
the government which is at of a Brazilian officer. And .'~ and death interest's of the
length to come to power in though its troops are pres-.. United' States must `come
It is not l1'hlte deed, this act of American since Raborn had absolutely
responsibility has put a
~o early, nothing to do with the deci
however, to salute two im- check to Communist expan Sion and did not even now
mense new realities which ! i-ionism nu less ~significaht of it until after it had been
have emerged from the in- hnn was its arrest on the made. The showdown came
tervention of the United ether side of the Atlantic on the very day, he was
States Government into the:.. nearly two, decades ago,
being sworn in; for a few
Dominican chaos. They tow-. An inter-American policy I hours, therefore, he was un-
cr like mountains above all .? of common sense has sue-; derstandably occupied with
the small, fretful complaints
of the American left-wingceeded an inter-American family and friends..
,.
and all the petty pacifist non-policy which allowed j BUT IT IS a new experi
earpings from abroad. mortal peril to us all to en?? enee for that tough-minded
The first is that the Unites trench itself in/Cuba. These I. egghead, McGeorge Bundy,
States has halted' a mortally are the dimensions of a his- the President's principal
dangerous attempt to set up ?; toric victory for American White House assistant on
another Castro type of 1Fadership. Not all the nit-1 foreign affairs. Bundy's old picking of those who snilae.cll Harvard gown, though long
armed Communist lodge- } tirelessly at this action, sug- since packed away, had Be-
ment. The second is that lit gesting that it was some - fore this protected him. But
the lodger sense the United 'adventure in "militarism," the shouters are after him,
States has brought genuine can possibly rub out this too, now. For they have
triumph, made the ghastly discovery
collective security to this that he does not regard any
hemisphere. THERE IS Irony hei-e;? conceivable employment of.
THE ORGANIZATION ofj and not least in the criti- American power, however
cism automatically flung at honorably used for honora-
American States, which had this intervention by some of le purposes, to be ' neces-
been incapable of acting the same men who persuad-1r, sarily an irredeemable sin.
ed John F. Kennedy, not tot,
with real power and deci? _ ?isss, United Features avaaicga
sion anywhere, is being ;. act decisively as to Castro;
Cuba until it was almost too;
made a force for the com- late. They have been' not so
mon safety of the new world, much after President John-
Latin America, under Wash- son - who was of course.
ington's leadership, has .at, solely responsible for it all
-as after his advisers,
last grown up. This, sort of attack is~.
The great, the almost in- nothing new to the brilliant _
credible, fact that for the Under Secretary of State,.
first time in dozens of years Thomas Mann, whose pre-,
of trying an inter-American vious services had included
helping save giant 'Brazil
peace - keeping force has from Castroism. To the ul-
come. into being. It stands tra-liberals Mann has,always