In the first week of reappraisal of U.S.Latin American relations, it became plain that two schools of thought existed in Washingtonfor drastic and for cautious policy revision.
Before a standing-room-only audience of newsmen in Washington's National Press Club, Vice President Richard Nixon spoke for far-reaching revision.* Said Nixon: "What we must do is to show that when private enterprise and the United States come into Latin America, we do so not for the purpose of simply keeping in power the elite." He deprecated U.S. diplomats who concentrated on "white-tie dinners," adding that "the universities and the labor movement [are] the...