EDITORS SEE LATIN RED PROBLEM

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP88-01315R000300220015-2
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: September 21, 2004
• Sequence Number: 15
• Publication Date: October 18, 1965
• Content Type: NSPR

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WASHINGTON POSE OCT 18 1965
Approved F1e(UN4W. CIA-RDP88-01315R000300220015-2
Eultors See. Latin
By Robert H. Esta brook
1. I Washington Post staff Writer
SAN DIEGO-Latin Amcri-
can editors view 'Communist
subversion as the biggest
problem in the Western Hemi-
E sphere, but they are not very
enthusiastic about social e-
couple of Latin American
presidents what he was doing
and why. He would not even
have needed to ask them. Or
he could have done the same
thing' by calling in a few'am-
bassadors."
Others, however, feel that
the United States has been
i form as a means of coprng too apologetic and should not
with it. have stopped short. They
e
also came from Roberto Cam-1
pos, Brazil's energetic Mini-
ster of, Planning, who con?
tended that "Fidelismo" has
lost some of its menace, The
great challenge to the Alli-
ance for Progress, he assert-
ed; is to improve agricultural
productivity, to absorb rural
masses becoming' urhanized
into national political life and
.to supplement economic aid
tion in the Dominican 1-tepub-' mestic poif.tica,i,concerns, not- 4.111...?b ???f-A ? N??...1 .Y. F' y
li rester toda than t inc the tendenby of some offi.nary products. Cull
the time of the American; in- cials to talk one way in private ` But a tough speech by Un I
i d S t f St t Th s-i
c
o
ma e .,
rc ar-y ' a e
tervention last April. I and another in public, er e
These are the principal1 Dominican editors in par- Mann was right in line with,'
conclusions invited' by the ticular complained that the fears of Communist subvert,` / .~
meeting of the Inter-Ameri- Communists had used , the sion. Mann also was applaud
can Press ''Association just truce ed, although a few found him
period to consolidate defonsive or "not simpatico."
completed here. Some 190 edi- forces; and train saboteurs. The extraordinary lengths' toi
tors from North. and South Three newspapers closed by
America were among the 400 the rebels last April - El which he went to reply to Fial-
participants, Caribe, Listin Diarlo and bright 'attested how really
net- tied the Administration was
Effects of U. S. Policy been enabled to reopen under by. rtiie criticisms, including
Talks with editors of many !the provisional government those/from sectors' of the
nationalities, also lead to sev-; although an overly Commu- American press.
eral other conclusions about nist organ, Patria, is flourish. In effect, .Mann denied that
the effect of American policy: ing. American policy on noninter-;
{ ? There is a consensus that Whether the preoccupation vention has changed or that i
r the Dominican intervention with Communist subversion there., is' such a thing as the',
was necessary to forestall an- rather than with ? reform- is Johnson Doctrine, But he left
are critical of method' andj lie opinion in Latin ? America subversion is, to be countered
others blame the United States) is open to question. speedily by collective means.
for not finishing the job.'
!Conservative Editors-'' Danbyer of Subversion
. m,,....,. . < , c
ing that the recent critical! The IAPA includes such re-
speech by Sen. J. William Ful- spected figures as Alberto
necessary questions and had' lisher, of La Prensa of Buenos
,,a mischievous effect because Aires which was closed by
of his position as chairman of
the Senate Foreign Relations
Committee. One Panamanian,
however, commented that
"Fulbright? agreed with me,"
? Opinion is sharply divided
.--about the Selden resolution
passed by the 1;Iouse of Repre-
sentatives, which appeared to
sanction unilateral military in-
jtervention to deal with Com-
munist subversion. Some think
that, the effect of the resolu-
tion was exaggerated. Individ-
.
iual editors from Argentina, ~ Progress as revolutionary and
Honduras and Mexico reported: dangerous.
no special concern'in their lo-; Some, however, may kiave,
ealitics. But the resolution' been shy about expressiing
caused impassioned reactions, dissent. "If the man -in the
.in Chile, Colombia, Panama; street gets the idea that the
.and Peru, among other places. only people interested. in help-
are the 'respect to the Domini-I one' editor prri at ly,t "he will of o levity byo charging that
an intervention, . one Ecua-, want to take their aid' and both his 'cousin and Campos'
orian editor remarked that, Communist influence will be had their speeches written for
many of the complaints could, enhanced"
i '
them.
have been avoided "if Presi-,
dent Johnson had just picked, Agricultural Need Seen ~..~?? au + ~ ~,..,af . '
up: the telephc~~;,41A~?I~ -RDP88-01315R0003002200:15-2
Peron, and' Pedro Beltran,
editor and publisher of La
Prensa of Lima and former
Prime Minister of Peru.
Nevertheless, Latin Ameri-
can editors who attend such
conferences ' tend to be a
pretty conservative lot. They
vigorously applauded a speech
by retired American Ambassa-
dor Ellis, O. -Briggs denounc-
ing the `emphasis on tax and
land reform in the original
concept of the Alliance
for
More emphatically, - he in-
sisted that the danger of sub,
version is real in "fragile" so-
cieties, and that any coopera-
tion with the Communists is
perilous. He quoted from
President Kennedy to this ef-
fect.
What Mann really seemed
to be saying is that reliance
on,reform through the demo-
cratic left is 'a mere slogan
and is not enough to avoid
subversion. The 'Hemisphere
must. look for, leadership to
strong anti-Communists such
as former- President Romulo
Betancourt of Venezuela or to
new forces emerging from the
military,, the church and or-
ganized labor...
, . , I-Iow well such an'essentially
,ideological prescription will
capture public imagination is
i another question. At 'any 'rate
it did: not satisfy a Texas
guest who described himself