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Inter - American News
for English •
Speaking people
6th YEAR
e. A. SAN ROMAN. C. W. SMITH, 8. SMITH,
President. Vice President. Vice President.
FRANCISCO AGUIRRE, HORACIO AGUIRRE,
Vice President and Publisher Vice President Editor and Manager
Antonio Ruiz, Thomas A. Hill,
Managing Editor. Advertising Manager
FublUbcd daUy excspt Monday Entered u second class matter at tbe
Post Office of Miami Springs. Fla., on February J, 1954
EDITORIAL
DEMOCRACY AND DEMAGOGISM
The democratic system is ruled by sober philosophical
concepts which, within the scope of a reasonable freedom
and respect for the opinions of others, should not fall to
demagogic outbursts, because these usually interpret states
of mind of irresponsible persons, which throw the Re
public into chaos, completely alter the value of political
concepts, and confuse democratic freedom with disorder.
As the dictatorship of the right, demagogism, which
usually degenerates in dictatorship of the left or absolute
anarchy, is irreconcilable enemy of authentic democracy,
which means common sense, decorum and a sense of re
sponsibility.
Quite a few political movements of healthy orientation
at the beginning have been spoiled when leaders who are
masters in the art of demagogism engage in campaigns
aimed at discrediting democracy, offering in its name utopic
things and, even, worse, things that are incompatible with
the doctrinary reality of democracy itself. What they want,
of course, is to deceive the more or less naive masses, to
create for themselves a personality which, although arti
ficial, exercises influence in the political life of the country,
an influence which, naturally, benefits only the demagogues.
Unfortunately, the people cannot easily identifiy these
opportunists, because the abuse of certain psychological
knowledge by the demagogues, decreases the possibility of
being promptly recognized by certain popular sectors which,
without much reflection, aplaud insincere words and pro
mises that cannot be carried out. And while the people
suffer disappointments, those false leaders take advantage
of the undeserved support from the people, which they
win with only lies in their talks.
In the propaganda plans of legitimate democracies,
It is necessary not only to teach the people what this
system represents ideologically, but it is also convenient
to teach them to discover their enemies, in order to defend
democratic institutions, saving them from extinction under
the weight of dictatorship, or from being completely des
troyed bv the folly of demagogism, which is another form
of dictatorship, because demagogues are always seeking
ways to impose their will through compulsion and threats,
under the cover of the cheap applause of people who,
although they may be sincere, have little capacity for
analysis.
Latin American Finance
and Trade News Reports
COLOMBIA, BRAZIL AIRLINES
SIGN AGREEMENT
WASHINGTON The Colom
bian airline. Rutas Aereas de Co
lombia, Ltda. (RAS), has conclud
ed an agreement with REAL Aero
vlas of Sao Paulo whereby REAL
will act as general agent in Brazil
for the Colombian airline, accord
ing to an announcement by the
Executive Secretary General of
RAS.
REAL will serve Bogota as the
first loieign stop of its contem
plated Sao Pauio-Tokyo route. It
now intends to serve Tokyo via
Rio de Janeiro, Bogota, Mexico
City, Los Angels, Honolulu, and
Wake Island.
RAS experts to initiate in July
the first of its experimental flights
between Bogota and Sao Paulo via
Manaus and Rio de Janeiro. Plan
ned initial frequency of scheduled
service over this route is two
flights a weex. Under the agree
ment, no interchange of equip
ment of crews is contemplated be
cause RAS will use DC4-13's while
REAL has announced that it will
use Super Constellations only.
However in all probability, conso
lidated timetables will be employ
ed and operational costs and pro
fits snared
ECUADOR SIGNS P.
L. 480 AGREEMENT
WASHINGTON —A commodity
sales agreement providing funds
for lending in Ecuador by the Ex
port-import Bank of Washington
under Public Law 480 has been
completed by tbe United States
and Ecuador.
Pursuant to Section 104 (e) of
the Agricultural Trade Develop
ment and Assistance Act of 1054
(P.L.480, known as the Cooley
Amendment, 25 percent of the
sucres, or the sucre equivalent of
$460,000 to be derived from sales
under the commodity sales agree
ment with Ecuador will be made
available to the Eximbank for
loans in Ecuador
Under the legislation, the Bank
may lend these sucres to U.S.
firms or their branches, subsidia
ries, or affiliates for business de
velopment and trade expansion in
Ecuaooi or to either U.S. ot Ecua
dorean firms foi expanding mar
kets loi and consumption of U.S.
agricultural products.
The law requires that the loans
be mutually tm’eeable to the Ex
imbank and Ecuador, represented
by the Central Bank. The law pro-;
5 Cents—Outside Metropolitan area, 10 cents.
hibits loans for the manufacture
of products to be exported to the
United States in -competition with
products produced in the United
States, or for the manufacture or
production of commodities “to be
marketed in competition with U.
S. agricultural commodities or the
products thereof .
The loans will be made and will
be repayable in sucres. Maturities
will correspond generally to those
used in the Bank's dollar loans to
private borrowers. It is intended
that the interest rates will be si
milar *o those charged for compa
rable loans in Ecuador.
The bank is prepared to receive
applications for loans under the
Ecuadorean commodity sales agree
ment, application will be re
ceived either directly at the Ex
port-Import Bank in Washington
or at the American Embassy in
Quito Uoon request the Bank will
provide a detailed statement of the
information which will be required
of applicants tor loans.
Funas will not accrue to the
Eximbank for the purpose of leans
in Ecuador, however, until pay
ment is received under transac
tions authorized by the commodity
sales agreement and the Bank will
not authorize loans under appli
cations that may be submitted un
til the Bank is in receipt of such
funds.
FINANCING SOUGHT
FOR GARBAGE DISPOSAL
PLANT IN BOGOTA
WASHINGTON —The Secretary
of Hygiene, Special District of Bo
gota, has announced that the city
will welcome bids from American
firms foi the construction and
equipment of a plant for the treat
ment and utilization of garbage.
The proposed plant must be able
to handle some 700 metric tons of
garbage daily
U.S. firms interested in the pro
ject are requested to submit draw
ings ot construction plans with full
specifications for machinery and
equipment: an estimate of the cost
of the necessary machinery, plant i
construction, and other necessary
investment; terms under which
the American contractor would
consider financing the project.
Terms of financing should be
quoted in both U.S. dollars and
Colombian pesos (7.81 pesos to U.
S. $1)
Bids should be submitted to Dr.
Pedro M Carreno Mallarino, Sec
retary de Higiene, Call# U, No. i
7-60, Bogott, Colombia. |
The Americas Daily
Supreme Effort
for Peace Must
be Made by all
BRAZILIAN PRESIDENT KUBITSCHEK DECLARES
RIO DE JANEIRO (UPI)
President Juseelino Kubitschek
called upon the Interparliamenta
ry Union to mobilize in order to
“modify the feelings which lead to
war”.
The Chief Executive made this
request in a speech to more than
300 delegates of 47 nations at the
inauguration of the 47th confer
ence of the Interparliamentary
Union.
Kubitschek stated that now, as
never before, has humanity lived
under such an “unlimited destruc
tive force”. Thus, recalling that
two world wars have occurred in
this century, he stated; “in the
Know thy
Neighbor
By ANTONIO RUIZ
HONDURAS In a trip from
the Honduran capital, Tegucigalpa,
the quickest and easiest way to
reach Copan, and its famous ruins
is by plane. There are flights sev
eral times a week, which require
about two hours, because of stops
in several small communities. How
ever, a group can charter a plane
at quite reasonable cost per pas
senger and the larger the group is
the less the cost to each. Since it
is only forty five minutes direct
flight to Copan, it is possible to
visit the ruins and return to the
capital on the same day, which will
certainly be a memorable day for
anyone visiting Honduras.
Cop&n was inhabited, according
to the range of dates found in
scribed on monuments in the city
from ihe first century B.C. to the
sixth century A.D. It was the sec
ond largest city in the vast Old
Empire of the Mayas, and appears
to have been the cultural center
Os the whole region. Then, in the
seventh century, the people of the
Old Empire left this region and
migrated to the North, to Yucatan
Mexico, and the magnificent cities
they had built were left to the
silence of the jungle, which gra
dually enveloped them. No one
knows why the Mayas moved away
Perhaps it was famine caused by
depletion of their agrieulutral
lands or perhaps an epidemic;
: some have suggested civil war,
others earthquakes, but the mys
tery remains unsolved. Whatever
the reason, the Old Empire came
to an end, and only the enigmatic
| ruins of its cities remain.
Excavation of Copan was begun
in 1885, and has been carried on
ever since, for a time by the Pea
body Museum of Harvard Univer
sity, and later by the Carnegie In
stitution of Washington. Today
you can walk through this once po
pulous city and see some of the
' finest examples of the art and ar
| chitecture of the Maya civilization.
From the field where the plane
lands, there is about one mile to
go by car to Copan. Before making
the trip, however, it is better to
study the model of the city at the
National Museum in Tegucigalpa.
In this way, it is easy to recognize
find your way through the
spacious courts, temples, palaces,
and stairways of the city.
At the Great Plaza one is trans
ported back into another age. On
the East rises the Acropolis, and
the other sides are surrounded by
stepped walls and platforms.
About the plaza stand striking
carved stone pillars, called stelae,
representing personages or gods,
adorned with lavish decorations,
and each bearing a date inscribed
in Maya numerals. Stelae like this
were erected in all the Maya cities
at regular intervals, usually every
twenty years, and constitutes a
glorious record of the development
of Mayan art.
In a corner of the Plaza is the
ball court, with seats on either
side; one tries to imagine as it
would have been fifteen centuries
ago. alive with players and specta
tors. The beautiful hieroglific
stairway, adorned with glyphs
from top to bottom, takes you
from the plaza up onto the Acro
polis, or upper level of the city.
Two large pyramids, serving as
bases for temples, rise from this
level, and there are several sunk
en courts. Everywhere there are
examples of the remarkable stone
carvings of the Mayas, huge heads
of animals, representations of gods
and hieroglyphs. A small museum
near the ruins contains many arti
cles which aid further in evoking
the life of the ancient inhabitants,
with the enchantment of their ci
vilizatin which grew, flourished,
and then departed from what is
now • remote and, until recently,
inaccessible region.
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For m better understanding between the Americas
MIAMI SPRINGS, FLA., SATURDAY, JULY 26, 1958
space of a few years we have wit
nessed acts of cruelty which can
not but seriously worry those who
meditate on the destiny of human
ity”.
The President indirectly refered
to the Near East question, saying
that “we are still under a strain
which keeps us in constant sus
pense”.
“Although many, he said, still
try to ignore it, we all know that
the people of entire continents
can now be transformed into
ashes”
He then said: “Under present
circumstances, we should concen
trate on a supreme effort for
peace”.
He added that if scientific ad
vances had been negatively ap
plied in the past, man would ne
ver have left the woods and that
if atomic power, which now threa
tens the world, is used for peace
ful development, it will begin an
era which will eliminate poverty
and ignorance. Upon stating that
the struggle against misery de
pends on understanding among
nations, Kubitschek told the dele
gates that peace depends on mu
tual respect and recognition that
no one possesses the key to ab
solute truth”. If we decide not to
fall back on force and violence in
order to impose our ideas, the tri
bulations which beset us will ma
gically disappear”.
He continued by saying that if
a small part of the funds used to
manufacture war machines were
used constructively, a wealth
which would end injustice and mi
sery would be created”.
Regarding the matter of regulat
ing foreign investments, which fi
gures in the theme of the confer
ence, Kubitschek stated that the
Latin American nations are great
ly interested in this phase, which
is important for the undercevelop
ed countries and added: “America
is aware of being the source of a
great material, demographic, and
spiritual heritage which should be
used for our own benefit and for
that of all humanity”. He added
that the struggle for development
depends upon the cooperation of
everyone.
The Soviet delegation to the
meeting tried once more to have
the question of the Middle East
included in the agenda, but the
Secretary General of the Organi
zation, Andre Blunay, reminded
the head of the delegation, Alex
ander Volkov, that, according to
the Rules once a resolution has
been rejected, it can be included
in the agenda only with a two third
majority vote of the conference,
and asked the Russian to submit a
draft of a resolution which will be
put up for discussion.
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Argentina Orders
Three Freighters
BUENOS AIRES (UPI)
Well informed sources said that
Freneh and West German ship
yards have received contracts
from the Argentine government
for the construction of three car
go ships, at an estimated cost of
$l5 million dollars.
Recently, the government asked
for bids from several European
and Asiatic countries. The results
of these bids wil’ be officially an- j
nounced within the next few days j
HEMISPHERIC EVENTS
Latin American News in Brief
Venezuela Denies
Uprising Reports
CARACAS, July 24 —(UPI)—
Official sources denied that an up
rising had occurred at Maracay
Military Base. The same 'rumors
about presumed uprisings in Va
lencia, which circulated last night,
were denied by the Governor and
the Commander of the Valencia
Military Garrison. Caracas was in
a state of alert last night.
Rear Admiral Carlos Larrazabal,
brothei ot the President of the
Government Junta and Comman
der of the Navy stated that the
“fleet was on a war footing as long
as the present situation, provoked
by “ploters” continued.
Meanwhile, leaders of the four
principal political parties of Vene
zuela, including the communist, vi
sited Rear Admiral Wolfgang La
rrazabil yesterday, to inform him
about the demonstrations held
throughout the country in his sup
port. , „
The visitors included Rafael Cal
Officials Agree
on Greater Role
for Latin America
in World Affairs
WASHINGTON —(UPI)— U.S.
officials here agree that Latin
America should be represented at
any summit meeting within the U.
N. Security Council.
They have made this statement
regarding the request of the Pres
ident of Brazil, Juseelino Kubits
check, that a more important role
be given Latin America in inter
national affairs.
Kubitschek expressed his view
point in a letter to President Ei
senhower, in which e said it is
his opinion “that this vital part of
our continenr (Latin America)
should be emancipated from the
secondary position it has occupi
ed until now in the international
picture and her voice should be
heard in the discussions of the
destiny of all the peoples of the
world”.
Official sources said they were
in complete agreement that Latin
America should be represented in
that meeting, in which regions of
the Middle East and Asia will be
represented, adding that Eisenho
wer will send an answer soon to
President Kubitschek.
They also said that it would be
natural that all members of the
Security Council are represented
by their Chief Executives in case
of a conference within that agency.
Colombia and Panama are the two
Latin American countries repre
sented by their Chief Executives
in case of a conference within that
agency. Colombia and Panama are
the two Latin American countries
represented now at the Security
Council.
High ranking State Department
officials said they don’t know what
steps have been taken to invite
the two presidents, adding they
would like very much that the
Presidents of Panamfi and Colom
bia attend the meeting.
Honduras Appoints
Consul in Miami
TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras
(UPI) — President Ramon Villeda
Morales has piomoted Francisco
Aleman from consul in Miami to
ambassador to Cuba. Raul Caceras,
until recently consul in New York
has been named to succeed Ale
man in Miami.
Castro Delivering
Prisioners to Govt.
GENEVA —(UPI)— The Inter
national Red Cross announced that
Cuban rebel chief, Fidel Castro,
started delivering to the govern
ment of his country, numerous re
gular army, wounded, and gravely
ill soldiers, which he had held as
prisoners,
The transfer operation of these
prisoners, which the Red Cross
reported was being made in the
presence of two of its representa
tives, was arranged by the authori
ties of the organization after Fi
del Castro, at the beginning of this '
montn. called the institution and
offered to unconditionally release
these persons.
The Red Cross adds that the
operations are being carried out
with ihe active cooperation of the
Cuban Red Cross.
The number of prisoners is not
known, but it is thought to reach
about thirty-five.
dera, Copey, Party; Jovito Villalba
Republican Democratic Union;
Gonzalo Barrios, Democratic Ac
tion, and Gustavo Machado, Com
munist.
Tropical Winds Lash
Caribbean Countries
A wide area of tropical agualls
howled through the Caribbean to
ward Cuba and Jamaica yester
day.
But the weather bureaus said the
400-mile long disturbance apparen
tly had diminished a little during
the night after lashing Puerto Ri
co, the Virgin Islands and the Do
minican Republic with winds up to
45 miles per hour and torrential
rains.
Forecasters estimated the high
est winds today were about 30
miles per hour. The disturbance
at 6 a.m. was stretched across the
Caribbean between the Dominican
Republic and Cuba, It was moving
westward at about 15 to 18 miles
per hour.
Billion Dollar Contract
With Foreign Oil Firms
Announced in Argentina
KAISER INDUSTRIES
EXPANDING PLANT IN
CORDOBA, ARGENTINA
WASHINGTON (UPI) In
dustries Kaiser Argentina announ
ced today that it will build a $2,-
000,000 integrated forge facility at
its Cordoba, Argentina, automo
tive manufacturing plant.
The facility will permit IKA to
provide the forgings for a wide
variety of requirements in manu
facturing its jeep vehicles, includ
ing station wagons and trucks, and
the kaiser carabela passenger car.
The company is now producing
24,000 automotive units a year.
The majority of the forced parts
now used in the Cordoba plant are
imported. Thus, the facility will
save exchange for dollar-short Ar
gentina.
The forge plant is expected to
produce 10,000 tons of forgings by
the end of 1961. By that time, the
company will be producing more
forgings than it requires and will
be able to sell a limited quantity
to other manufacturing concerns.
The plant is scheduled for com
pletion early in 1959. It will be
a joint project with the Steel Im
provement and Forge Company
Cleveland, Ohio. IKA will build the
plant at a cost of $1,000,000 and
the Forge company will supply $l.
000,000 of equipment.
AMERICAN'S DEATH IN
CUBA INVESTIGATED
HAVANA. (UPI). - The Amer
ican Embassy was investigating
the circumstances surrounding the
death of Frank Burns, 31, of Wa
terbury, Conn., whose demise at
nearby Cardenas was reported last
Sunday.
Burns until recently was employ
ed by an American Sugar Compa
ny as private tutor for the children
of its executives at a sugar mill
in the interior of Cuba.
Burns had been living at Vara
dero Beach in recent weeks. Po
lice at Cardenas arrested Burns
last Thursday on a complaint filed
by a Varadero hotel owner for
non-payment of his bill.
Police said the American bad
succumbed after a heart attack
Sunday. His body was being held
at a Varadero funeral parlor pend
ing word from his relatives as to
its disposition. I
Latin American Coffee Growers to Decide
Soon on Scarcity Program to Boost Prices
WASHINGTON —(UPI)— La
tin American coffee producing na
tions, beset by competition from
African growers, will decide in the
next 10 days on a planned scarcity
program that might send U. S. cof
fee prices skyward.
The Latin Americans are trying
to persuade their African compe
titors to join them in withholding
coffee from world markets in a
The weather bureau labeled the
disturbance as an easterly wave,
a long line of squalls. An easter
ly wave is sometimes the forerun
ner of a hurricane.
But the bureau emphasized
there were no indications the dis
turbance would build up into a
full-fledged tropical storm or hur
ricane. A Navy hurricane hunter
plane flew through the squall area
Monday and reported no signs of
circular motion.
SOLDIER KILLED IN
ARGENTINE EXPLOSION
BUENOS AIRES (UPI)
One soldier was killed and another
man disappeared in a violent ex
plosion of the powder magazine of
the Military explosive Factory in
Pilar.
The explosion happened after the
personnel of the factory, some two
hundred workers, had left for the
day. The victims, including one
wounded man, were from the civi
lian and military guards of the fac
tory.
U. S. AND SOVIET UNION INCLUDED
IN COUNTRIES GETTING CONTRACTS
BUENOS AIRES; July 26 (UPI)
The President, Arturo Frondizi,
reported by radio to the nation
last night that a group of U.S., Eu
ropean, and Soviet Union compa
nies will invest a billion dollars in
Argentine oil exploitation.
Frondizi stated that this invest
ment will permanently solve the
present oil shortage suffered by
Argentina.
He added that Argentina will
be able to export oil within a six
year period. He said that Argenti
na had signed a contract with the
following companies:
U.S. group: Atlas Corporation,
Splendor Mining Company, Petro
Atlas, Williams Brothers, (famous
oil pipeline constructors now work
ing in Bolivia and Paraguay), Mid
Continent Exploration Company,
Ferrostaal Ag. German Steel Com
bine.
This group will invest $700,000.
000. Using the money to: furnish
the Argentine Government Oil
Monopoly with equipment for the
next three years for a value of 50
million dollars, which will be paid
partly in pesos and partly in dol
lars during following three years;
will drill about 4,000 wells within
the next six years, in locations
chosen by the Government Oil Mo
nopoly; construct, in Argentina,
an oil equipment factory valued at
leats 5 million dollars; provide a
credit to the Government Oil Mo
nopoly of at least 18 million bar
rels of crude oil and byproducts
for the next two or three years;
construct, over a route yet to be
decided upon a second gas pipe
line between the ComodOro Riva
davia Wells and Buenos Aires; and
request a 30 million dollar credit
for the Central Bank for a 6 year
period to finance this contract.
Frondizi also reported that the
Soviet Ambassador had told him
that Russia is ready to offer oil
drills and other equipment valued
at 100 million dollars for Argen
tine agricultural products which
would be exported over a long pe
riod.
Frondizi dramatically described
the oil situation and told his com
patriots that one of the main obs
tacles against progress in Argen
tina is that the country has to im
port steel and oil products, which
affects her sovereignty, especially
move to reduce huge surpluses and
restore sagging prices.
The task will not be easy and
may require State Department
pressure on the Africans.
Representatives of 14 Latin
to decide what they will do about
it.
agreed to a draft convention un
der which, during the next crop
year, Brazil would withhold 40 per
CHILDREN’S LIBRARY
DONATED BY U.S.
GUATEMALA —Director of the
National Library Ricardo Castane
da Paganini announced last week
the donation by the U.S. Embassy
of furniture, books and materials
for completing the children’s sec
tion of the library. The important
contribution from the Embassy is
now being installed and opening
of the children's section is expect
ed at an early date.
SIXTH FORESTRY
CONFERENCE
GUATEMALA —The SixthTa
tin American Forestry Conference
to be held in Guatemala next No
vember under the sponsorship of
the United Nations Food and Agri
cultural Organization is currently
being prepared by a work commit?
tee. The Conference will study the
wider and better utilization of for
ests in Latin America. Although
45 per cent of Latin America is
covered with forests, imports of
wood and wiod products exceed
exports by an estimated $3OO mil
lion a year.
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Press Association ,
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Hemispheric Solidarity
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in case of the outbreak of a new
world war.
Frondizi added that inflation is
causing havoc in the country and
that machinery is running out.
“The country is almost at a
standstill he said. Argentina
cannot continue this way.”
He added that he hopes to reach
other agreements for importing
smaller quantities of oil from Ru
mania, Venezuela, Bolivia, Mexico,
and Peru.
Frondizi also reported that ihe
Government Oil Monopoly (YPF)
will be completely reorganized and
that he regrets the loss of many
brilliant Argentine oil engineers
who have gone abroad. He said
that “atrophyied bureaucracy will
be eliminated from the YPF and
that the company will be admin
istered the same as any commer
cial company, with strict cost con
trols”.
He insisted on the government
and the people giving their sup
port to the Government Oil Mono
poly.
He also insisted that the Mono
poly shall be the main instrument
in all these operations and that
none of the countries under con
tract Will have any part of the
country.
Frondizi reported that he will
send a message to Congress asking
it to approve a law m which,
among other things, it will be
clearly defined that the coal and
oil from Argentine soil shall be
the exclusive property of the na
tion.
Section Completed
in Pan Am Highway
MEXICO —(UPI)— The Guate
malan section of the Panamericaa
Highway will be finished when a
series of bridges which will be
constructed within the next four
months in the Malacatan region,
are completed, stated Guantema
lan engineers Mario Camalero and
Jesus Anzueta.
These two returned to Guatema
la from the U.S., after buying two
gigantic 80 ton cranes which will
be used in the construction at
these Dridges.
cent of its production, Colombia
15 per cent, and the other produc
ing nations 10 per cent.
However, the draft agreement
is not binding on the governments
concerned. They have until Aug. 5
decide what they will do about it.
Meantime, representatives of
Brazil, Colombia, Mexico, El Sal
vador and Costa Rica will seek to
convince African producers to
agree to a withhold program.
While the meetings at which the
draft agreement was worked out
were secret, it is known that some
of the other Latin American coun
tries have not been enthusiastic.
Many went along with the draft
; because: 1. It did not definitely
commit their countries; and, 2.
they felt they had to go along in
consideration of inter- American
solidarity.
If African nations agree to the
withholding program there is little
doubt that the other Latin nations
would also go along. But if agree
ment is not obtained from the
Africans some may decline to go
along.
The Africans who have been in
creasing their production under
the umbrella of Brazil juicing
schemes and the Mexico City
agreement, are naturally relectant
to agree to any cut-back program.
A recent World Bank study ton
mented that failure of the Africans
to join, an agreement would be a
major 'weakness of the scheme,
would be its main beneficiariee,
enjoying both high prices and un
restricted volume of sales; and
their export expansion would be
watched with uneasiness by all
members of Hie stabilization
scheme”.
State Department influence an
the Africans stems from the fact
that if the coffee situation serioua
ly deteriorates the United States
in an effort to save the scoanmSet
of its neighbors might he forced
evolve an import quota irhn.