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Raymond Moley U.S. Policy nukes Latins Fair Game Not long ago a former member, of the Roosevelt Administration, who has lived several years since| then in Latin America, was asked ‘the various military take- Geers in someof the nations down there. Tn reply, he said, con- ‘ary 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 are for the most part essentially patriotic individuals who do not, seek power for power's sake, but seek Prevent demagoguery, Bubbly Flowed, Two Partygoers Sail With Ship NEW YORK (N.Y. News)—Two, young women, who were #0! Geatenea by the popping of cham= | pagne corks that they didn’t hear the call “all sshore 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: Grinking,” admitted Mrs, Donia Carey. 26, of West Falmouth, Mass., who took the unplanned trip with her I1-month-old gon, Seth. | “t|| didnt have avy breakfast. | The whale ‘thing was silly and un-/ believable.” The other sleeping beauty was Miss Diana MacKown, 26, of Pilts- burgh, “I'm off champagne for @ while.” said Dione. “But T want you to know I'm still fond of it,” she said Mra, Carey, who studied sing ing at Vale Music Schoo! husband, Frank, a Marine bi Gist at Woods Hole, Ma Seemed pretty philosophical, “He told me to make the best of ft and to try to see something of France,” 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 oftices getting her papers straightened out that she didn't see much of the town, i Miss MacKown, who was gradu- ated trom the school of architec ture and design at Yale, did not! eave the ship at all. i Both women had been seeing off a girl they had known at Yi 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- Daring meals; one hour, 12 min-| Ules sewing and mending, and one hour, 12 minutes washing and Eroning. NEWS BREAKS GENTLY FLORENCE, Italy (WNS)—The scale in the women’s health salon of Dante Bucchi has # small pane! ‘that lights up when the weight Fegistered is over 125 pounds. It Teads: “With our apologies.” | | chaos, and the spread of comman-) teen. This Informed opinion, It should be noted, comes from a man whe, wae frequently under attack here for bia left-wing views, . But per sonal contacts with the realities of so-called. democracy. in semi developed countries have moditie hia views, ‘Three Major Errors Three major errors by 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- fom. i The first of these errors was the abrogation of the Platt Amend- ment by the Roosevelt. Adminis tration. This was done because it was assumed that the rule of Batista would make it unnecess-! ary for the United States to inter-' calculation? CUSTOM [the vene in Cuba. This proved to be, a very foolish estimate of what) Jmuniste to believe that Latin might Keppen after Batista. Next, during the Eisenhower Administration, Castro was helped to gain power -because of the blunders of subordinates in the State Department. Despite the protests of two of Eisenhower’ 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 finally, the Kennedy Administration, by Ite mie- Judgment not enly of Castro but jesigne of the Soviet en ment, hae abrogated the Monroe Doctrine after nearly a century and a half, What has been the effect of these successive exhibitions of American weakness snd mis-) DELUXE Encauraged Communists ‘They have encouraged Com- American countries are fait game for their designs. ‘They are at Uberty to regard the United States not as # paper tiger but as & Ferdinand the bull, with power but with no disposition to use it. ‘They bave 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 governments, but has aroused the military to take things into their ‘own hands. The nalvete which permitted the past mistakes will seems te possess official Washington and commentactrs, These peaple ooh- istently speak of military take- overs as the overthrow of “democracies.” word democracy as 2 syn-nym” seal ‘American nations are modeled on ira with the executive and legle- ive branches coordinated apd inced one agsinat the ether, these limitations are scarcely ever observed in practice. " What prevails in Latin America is executive dictatorship, either under @ socialist or Communist- tinged president or under » mili- tary chief. Considering the origins of these two types, the military seems to be less musceg- tible to Communist influence. ‘And our lavish outlays of money have little effect upon the creation of stable governments. 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