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...first Roman to protest that his city was being despoiled by wanton demolition of ancient monuments and tasteless modern construction is lost to history, but two things about him are fairly sure: he made his complaint in Latin, and lived in the days of the Caesars. Last week, joining a long line of outraged traditionalists ranging from the Emperor Majorian (A.D. 457-461) to Pope Pius II (1458-64), famed Italian Novelist Alberto Moravia lamented: "The Dark Ages and the Barbarians are come again. But this time they have modern means. This is the end of Rome...
Seven leading Latin American nations -Argentina, Brazil, Mexico, Venezuela, Cuba, Panama, Ecuador-cold-shouldered the U.S. last week to vote for U.S.S.R.-backed Poland instead of U.S.-backed Turkey to fill a U.N. Security Council seat. The failure to muster a two-thirds vote resulted in a deadlock and pushed decision on the issue into this week...
...opportunity for the Latin American swing came from Western dawdling that failed to put Turkey into the race until last month. That gave Poland time to ask for commitments from the Latin Americans. They agreed because of three factors...
...Power "gentlemen's agreement" of 1946, which guarantees a Security Council seat for an East European nation, is also the agreement that guarantees two Security Council seats for Latin American nations. Although the U.S. maintains that the agreement was valid for only one year, the Latin Americans figured that a vote against Poland would mean certain Soviet-bloc opposition to perpetuation of their two seats. ¶The Latin Americans do not consider the Poland-Turkey contest a big issue even if the U.S. does. Adding Poland to Russia and neutralist Ceylon (which last week replaced Canada on the Security...
Only on major cold-war issues does Latin America usually side with the U.S. -and even then there is always the temptation to pluck a feather from the eagle. Example: admission to the U.N. of Red China, which has been staging a major propaganda drive across Latin America (TIME, July 27). Last month Cuban Delegate Manuel Bisbe made the first open gesture by abstaining from backing the block-Red China bloc. Now Brazil's U.N. delegate, Augusto Frederico Schmidt, blusters that "popular outcry in our countries is becoming so strong on the Red China issue that we may soon...