The Americas: The Long Way Around

There was a shift in U.S. policy toward Latin America last week. The old hard line of Latin America Task Force Chief Adolf Berle, 66, that the American re publics must agree to help bring down Castro as the first order of business, was disappearing, and so. presumably, was Berle. In came the soft padded sell of U.N. Ambassador Adlai Stevenson, just back from South America, that the struggle against Communism must be waged the long way around, building good will through development cash and the Alliance for Progress. A corollary of this policy: no direct U.S. action against...

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