A New Hand

When Dean Acheson took over as Secretary of State, latinos looked for a new pitch to U.S.-Latin American policy. For the past two years, cautious Careerman Paul Daniels, director of the State Department's Office of American Republic Affairs, had been left pretty well alone with the responsibility. His policy had been a policy of drift.

President Truman's Point Four program had already suggested that a change was at hand. More recently, Washington's warm welcome to Brazil's President Eurico Caspar Dutra pointed up U.S. determination to stand beside its democratic friends. Last week fresh evidence that the U.S. was pulling up...

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