How goes the Alliance for Progress six months after President Kennedy, in a good-neighborly mixture of determined English and halting Spanish, laid out the goals for hemispheric development? The bare framework of the formal Alliance has just been hammered together, but the U.S. is not awaiting treaties or paper proclamations before turning on the stream of dollars. In a striking speedup of aid since President Kennedy's speech last March, 99 loans, totaling $973 million in hard cash and credits, have been pumped into Latin America as convincing evidence that the U.S. intends to put its money where its sentiments...
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