Probably no one outside the U.S. listened more intently than the Latin Americans to Secretary of State John Foster Dulles' first words on new U.S. foreign policy (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS). The Latinos liked what they heard about the Western Hemisphere—and wished there had been more.
The Truman Administration, said Dulles, had slipped into a "policy of neglect" toward its southern neighbors, concentrating on Europe and Asia and "taking it for granted that we could forget about South America for a time and then go back and find everything the same as it...
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