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AMERICAN FRIENDS SERVICE COMMITTEE (AFSC) ambitious; fourth, the OAS, which is worth saving, although it has serious shortcomings; fifth, our aid to the Latin American military dictatorships is discriminatory and tends to discourage those dictators whose policies are not parallel to ours. The following are the bad points about our Latin American policy, according ore cesrsersr First, there is too wide a gap between our professional statesmen and what is practiced in Latin American policy, There is too much talk of what we are going to do, too much talk of democracy, of voting, of free enterprise; second, there is too much support of big business ~ it is unfortunate that our government has seen fit to identify with big business and private enterprise in Latin America. Third, there 1s too much reliance on the Alliance for Progress, some of our basic assumptions concerning which are false. He did not elaborate on the matter of the assumptions. He said that there are a number of improvements that we can make in our Latin American policy which may well rectify the mistakes we havealready made. First, we should recognize "Stateism" as he called it, and state socialism in Latin America, as we do in other parts of the world. We should cooperate with Latin American governments, no matter what their tenor; our refusal to do this stems from our desire to mold the governments of Latin America into our own image. These changes, he said, would result in the following: (1) relief of U. S. - Latin American tensions; (2) facilitation cf development of Latin America; (3) encouragement of repatriation of Latin American capital that is urgently needed at home. migmggglt opened his remarks with the statement that the reason we do not permit "Stateism" in Latin America is that we own Latin America. There are two types of domination over an area, he said, political domination and economic domination. During the period from 1920 to 1940, he said, we had political domination over Latin America; today, however, it is economic. Our_policy on progress in Latin America is quite simple, according to ca. We do not want development in Latin America. He said that we have been forced to come to terms with Mexico, as representative of the countries which have undergone social revolutions. nth nel ee ny IO AA nh ARETE MOE ATS SA