Word: interamerican
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Hugh Butler's mathematics got quick corrections. Tennessee's bulb-nosed Kenneth McKellar interrupted Butler's oratory to set the cost of Good Neighborliness at $2,207 million. Few hours later, Interamerican Coordinator Nelson Rockefeller totted it up, got less than $600 million. Henry Wallace summed up: "fantastic figures ... a shocking slur...
...extraordinary" InterAmerican Conference for the Maintenance of Peace, and it was called for by extraordinary circumstances. Supposedly these circumstances were the "altogether favorable opportunity" resulting from the settlement of the bloody bout between Bolivia and Paraguay. Actually the favorable opportunity was created not in the jungles of the Chaco but in the long corridors of the U. S. State Department. Part of it was the long planning of Assistant Secretary of State Sumner Welles, one of the abler gentlemen in Latin-American diplomacy. More of it was a wholly new era of U. S.-Latin-American relations resulting from Cordell...