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Peace And Disarmament Literature — Part 5
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AMERICAN FRIENDS SERVICE COMMITTEE (AFSC)
said that the United States, through its
businessmen, goes in, buys up the main resource of a country,
and then sits back and controls the purse-strings of that country.
We have made Latin America our modern colonies, the source of
our raw materials and a market for our finished products. The
only responsible way to insure Latin America development is to
allow the individual governments to assume control of the
resources. But, since this would, in effect, force us to
abandon our high standard of living, we discourage nationalization.
Indeed, said g@UMMEMMMG, we need a sort of governmental
intervention in our own economy.
because of our discriminatory policy toward the military in Latin
America. This policy has been smart from our point of view,
gince we have aided only those who have agreed with us. "We
the public have been hoodwinked to believe that nationalism
is Communism," he said, The nationalists are the only kind of
people who have the best interests of their countries at heart.
en as a se the Timtted Ghat
meray commented on this - if the United States
continues its current policy toward the Latin American states,
there may well be an explosion.
commented that we should have the same a
sort of relations with Cuba as we have
th Mexico. Sis Foet5 x
are
in the afternoon,
Amat aan
aan, Spoke on the Latin American siti
of a Latin American, The nations of tetin. fmerioa have. are
sense of community, he said. There are a number of common
Genominators among the Latins, among them language = Spanish
and Portuguese - and the backwardness of the people.
This backwardness of the people, together with the
inadequacy of the governments to meet the demands of the people,
have contributed, and are contributing, to the great social
vsitce in latin Americ
injustice in Latin America.
went on to discuss the economic situation and that
the United States was exploiting Latin America and that 40 percent
of all U. S. profits earned by U. S. capital abroad came from
Latin America. He discussed the oligarchy in Latin America, The
oligarchy senses certain unrest and attempts to stop it but cannot.
There will be a revolution in Latin America, he said, _
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