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...resolution caused something of a furor in both the U.S. and Latin America, but the fuss did not obscure its clear warning to Russia and China. Its object, said Alabama Democrat Armistead Selden, the resolution's sponsor and the chairman of the House Subcommittee on Inter-American Affairs, was "to make it clear to Communists that they cannot count on the principle of nonintervention to shield their takeover of a hemisphere country." Added he: "It is a pretty good mandate about how the people of this country really feel...
Neither the White House nor the State Department raised any objections when Selden began hearings on his resolution, perhaps because it amounted to a warm endorsement of U.S. policy in the Dominican Republic, which has lately been attacked by Arkansas' Democratic Senator William Fulbright. Privately, most Latin American ambassadors in Washington also found it unobjectionable; a TIME correspondent polled 19 of them, found 15 in favor. With Latin diplomats, however, private preference and public position are often poles apart. Belatedly, the White House realized that many of the same Latins who privately approved the resolution would publicly damn...
Quick Response. The Administration executed a fast flip-flop in its position. It sent a phalanx of officials, including Under Secretary of State Thomas Mann and White House Adviser McGeorge Bundy, to urge Selden to drop the resolution. If it passed, they said, Latin American nations might read it as an excuse for Americans to intervene at the least threat of Communist subversion, and some Latin strongmen might attempt to use it as a convenient justification for moving in on other countries. Selden stood fast, and the resolution breezed through the House...
...SELDEN RODMAN-Oakland...
...RICHARD SELDEN EATON Washington...