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Raymond Moley U. S. Policy Mukes Latins Fair Game This proved to be, a very foolish estimate of what) Not tong ago a former member of the Roosevelt Administration, who has lived several years since then in Latin America, was asked about the various military take- overs in some of the nations down there. In reply, he said, con- trary to an opinion quite common in the United States, these actions of the military were absolutely necessary to the maintenance of stable government, public welfare, and order. . The higher ranks in the military establishments in those countries have been recruited from the more enlightened families, They sre for the most part essentially patriotic individuals who do not seek power for power's sake, but seek to prevent demagoguery, Bubbly Flowed, Two Partygoers Sail With Ship NEW YORK (NY. News)—Two | young women, who were 80) deatened by the popping of cham- | pagne corks that they didn’t hear ; the call “all ashore that’s going ashore’ returned from Europe recently aboard the liner Queen Elizabeth. | Both attended a going away party for a friend Sept. 25, ddzed off after downing the bubbly, and - woke up at sea. “I don’t have any head for: drinking,” admitted Mrs. Donia Carey, 29, of West Falmouth, Mass., ' who took the unplanned trip with: her 11-month-old gon, Seth. “t| didnt have any breakfast. The, whole thing was silly and un) believable.” The other sleeping beauty was Miss Diana MacKown, 26, of Pitts-_ burgh. “I’m off champagne for a- while,” said Diana. “But I want you to know I'm still fond of it,” she said. : Mra. Carey, who studied aing- ing at Yale Music School, said husband, Frank, a Marine biola- gist at Woode Hole, Mast, ~ seemed pretty philosophicat. “He told me to make the best of it and to try to see something of Franee," Mrs. Carey said. . The young mother was given special permission to get off the ship at Cherbourg and went to Paris, but she spent sb much time sitting around government offices getting her papers straightened out that she didn’t see much of the town. i Miss MacKown, who was gradu- ated from the school of architec- ture and design at Yale, did not! leave the ship at all. i Both women had been seeing off a girl they had known at Yale when the Elizabeth sailed away. | TIME ANALYZED | ZURICH, Switzerland (WNS)— | Michele Moresi, who has traveled to every European capital gather- | ing material for s new book,!} “Modern Families,” reports that! the average European housewife: with three children spends one; hour, 48 minutes a day cleaning | house; one hour, 42 minutes pre- paring meals; one hour, 12 min-! utes sewing and mending, and: one hour, 12 minutes washing and’ ironing. NEWS BREAKS GENTLY FLORENCE, Italy (WNS)—The scale in the women’s health salon of Dante Bucchi has @ small panel that lights up when the weight registered is over 125 pounds. It Treads: “With our apologies.” { chaos, and the spread of commun- | This Informed opinion, it chould be noted, comes from a man whe was frequently under attack here! Administration, Castro was helped for their designs. Gut per-|to gain power -because of the liberty to regard the United States for bia left-wing views. _ vene in Cuba. ' night happen after Batista. Next, during the Eisenhower Encauraged Communists They have encouraged Com~ | munisis to believe that Latin- American countries are fair game They are at sonal contacts with the realities of blunders of subordinates in the not as a paper tiger but as a so-called __ democracy _ in -seml | developed countries have modified hia views. . Three Major Errors Three major errors the government of the United States have not only increased the danger of Communist control in Latin America but have substantially! encouraged militery leaders to pro- tect themselves against Commun- : if The first of these errors was the abrogation of the Platt Amend- ment by the Roosevelt Adminis- tration. This was done because ft was assumed that the rule of Batista would make it unnecess-‘ State Department. Despite the protests of two of Eisenhower's ambassadors to Cuba, to the “fourth floor” in the State Depart- ment Castro was benign re- former. Now we know that this was a tragedy like the mis- judgement of Mao Tse-tung. Third and finalty, the Kennedy Administration, by Its mis- Judgment not only of Castro but the designs of the Soviet govern-- ment, has abrogated the Monroe Ooctrine after nearly a century and a half, What has been the effect of these successive exhibitions of American weakness and mis- ary for the United States to inter-' calculation? CUSTOM ° | DELUXE Ferdinand the bull, with power , but with no disposition to use it. They have servéd notice on the substantial people in those coun- -tries that if they are to be saved they must do it themselves. * Hence, a disbelief in our under- \ standing and capacity for action has not only created the chaos and corruption of allegedly popular i governments, but has aroused the ‘military to take things into their ‘own hands. | The ralvete which permitted the past mistakes still seems to | possess official Washington gnd i ial 5 ip commentactra. These peanle coh- alstently speak of military take- overs as the ‘overthrow ef “democracies.” ff they ueed the word democracy as a syn nym’ of republican government the ¢ would will be wrong. For while the constitutions of - most’ Latin American nations are modeled on Ours with the executive and legis- lative branches coordinated gud balanced one against the ether, these limitations are ecarcely ever observed in practice. te What prevails in Latin Americe is executive dictatarship, either under a socialist or Communist- tinged president or under » mili- tary chief. Considering the origins of these two types, - the military seems to be less susceg- tible to Communist influence. And our lavish outlays of money have little effect upon the creation of stable governments. (A Bell- McCiure Syndicate Feature). «+ ' are ‘PERMANENT ALCOA PERMANENT . 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