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Diario las Américas., 1958-05-18

the attacks on Your Excellency.
In Lima, for example, the good.
Will flag was torn by students
while police watched; Furthermore
when the chips were down, virtual,
ly nobody rushed to the defense
OF their distinguished guest. This
shows plainly that the unruly were
regarded al heroes. The Commu.
mist tag, nowadays, is placed on
all dissenters. And we know that
the profound disbursement and
disappointment of all our people
with Americans and their foreign
policy runs deeply thru all layers
of society.
The reputable New York Times
says that something is very wrong
with U. S.-Latin relations, About
the Lima incident, an editorial
states: "The event cannot simply
be dismissed as Communist ms.
pred. This is a mistake that is
TOO often made in Latin-American
affairs. The Peruvian Communists
could not have staged such a de.
monstration in Lima if there had
not been a climate that favored
them.
Is it not a rather strange and
embarrassing coincidence that Fas-
cist Batista Of Cuba, Fascist Tru.
jillo of the Dominican Republic.
the equally dictatorial dynasty
OF the Somozas. in Nicaragua. and
the American leaders claim that
their opposition is Communist
inspired, to use the phrase in
vogue now? But even if you were
correct in your judgment about
the source of these serious events.
would that not be an admission on
your part that South America has
~torsaken the so-called Free World
for Communism? If the Democra.
tic Cause has reached such a pre-.
carious stage, is that not even
more serious than what | claim?
The errors and contradictions
OF American foreign policy can
not be justified by blaming the
Communists for all A American
failures. The truth of the matter
is that We Latin Americans do
have innumerable causes for Gem.
plant. Every bullet, every bomb,
every rifle, every tank that goes
to a Latin-American dictator is q
declaration of an intention to in.
flict punishment, pain, or loss on
our sons, our women, our children
nay more, u own lives.
When you grant visas to des.
pots, present medals to Fascists
or praise the anti-C Communist re.
cord of black relationships Gas you
did in Paraguay, you are, in eff.
feet, telling us that the American
people care very little for Demo.
crazy and much less for their
neighbors to the south.
Diario las Américas., 1958-05-18
HEMISPHERE EVENTS
MEXICANS G TO
EAT MORE EGGS

MEXICO CITY (UP)- Ceimsa,
the Government food distributing
end price controi agency, is plan
nlng a big nationwide campaign
to increase the consumption OF egg
within the country and improve
eating habits of the Mexican PEG.
pie.
Ceimsa director Julian Rodri-
guez Adame said he is planning
to meet soon with the heads of the
various agriculture association
throughout the country to work out
details of the campaign.
Plans call Cor the offering of
cash prizes to consumers on their
weekly Or monthly purchases of
eggs.
The campaign, which will great
ly benefit egg producers, also aims
at eliminating the smuggling Oi
eggs through northern border
points.
Several months ago Mexico be-
came self-sufficient in eggs and
their Importation was banned, but
there are reports that large quaint
ties are introduced illegally into
the country for consumption in thu
northern areas of the Republic.
Diario las Américas., 1958-05-18
NEW us. AMBASSADOR
LEAVES FOR CHILE

WASHINGTON (UP)- The
new United States Ambassador to
Chile, Walter Howe, conferred with
President Eisenhower at the White
House, prior to departure for San
tiago.
Howe told reporters the Presi-
dent wished me well in my new
post" The Ambassador refused to
comment on what was discussed.
Nor would he comment when ask
ed wha. the prospects were for the
Administrations mineral stabiliza-
tion plan of becoming law in this
session of Congress.
The plan, which is intended to
help the copper, zinc, and lead in
dustries, calls fol the government
to spend as much as $3.50, 000, 900
a year for the next five years in
price supports for these metals.
The plan is AIMED basicly at
helping the us mineral indus.
try which was charged it is being
hurt by increasing foreign miner
ais imports But indirectly, the
plan is expected TO help Chile, a
well as Mexico, Peru, Bolivia ant
canada as 1t probably will keel
Diario las Américas., 1958-05-18
NueIsar Energy for Agriculture is
Tested at Inter American Institute

WASHINGTON, D. C. CPAU)
What happens to coffee if the
plant gets a shot of gamma rays
while the bean is still growing on
the bush?
Farmer scientists of the Inter.
American Institute of Agricultur-
al Sciences, an agency of the Or
ganlzation of American States. will
attempt to answer this question in
nuclear energy experiments now
being conducted at the unique
GAS farm at Turrialba, Costa Ri
ca.
The Institute - known to farm
ers and scientists throughout the
Western Hemisphere simply as
"Turrialba" - has set aside a plot
of ground and built a laboratory
to measure the effects produced
by %bombarding growing crops with
gamma rays.
The program is being carried
out as part of an agreement be-
tween the Atomic Energy Commits
sion and the Institute. Atomic
operations at Turrialba are con-
Diario las Américas., 1958-05-18

Quoted on a two-acre plot sunk in a
natural hollow in which coffee, CO.
Goa, bananas, vegetables and gras-
ses have been planted. All these
Will be subjected to bombardment
OF gamma rays radiating from CO.
bait bars operated by remote CON
trol from a laboratory on the out.
SKIRTS OF the field. The laboratory
Will also serve as a radiation count.
ing room and for studying the
after effects Of the atomic shots.
Here also scientists will work on
problems Of m~etabolism, the
growth and nutrition of plants, eff
fects of fertilizers and rainwater,
transmutatiOns and pollen disper.
sion.
A more likely place than Tu.
rrlalba in which to explore the re.
latlon OF atoms to human appetites
would be hard to find. Because OF
the topography of its $500 acres,
ranging from tropical sea level to
temperate climate attitudes, almost
every known farm and forest pro.
duct can be cultivated successfully
Diario las Américas., 1958-05-18
Luxury Hotel to be
Built by Hilton in
Caracas, Venezuela

NEW YORK, (UP).-The inte-
national Hilton Hotels announced
plans for construction Of a 500
rooms hotel in the. center Of Cara
cas-.
The announcement was made by
Albert J Vollmer representing the
Venezuela interests in the corp
Grafton building the hotel, and
John v Houser, executive vice
president of the International Hill
ton Hotels.
This will be the first hotel built
in the center of Caracas and it
will be located in a proyect of
developments in an area of two
hectars, in which with an invest
ment of $4,000, 900 buildings for
offices and others will be built.
The hotel will be located in the
San Bernardino development, in the
corners of Andres Bello and Vol
mer avenues.
Richard Nixon, Vice-President
of the United States, when he
learned about it said: lit is a beau
tiful gesture and | think it will be
a success because the Venezuelans
are. ~basically, friends Of the United
States"
Venezuelan architect Tomas J.
Sanabria, in cooperation with the
designing personnel of the corp
grafton, will Immediately begin
drawing the plans. The construo
ton will begin in 1859.
Diario las Américas., 1958-05-18
Change Of Policies Toward
America Urgently"
Needed Ex President Says
Nixon's Visit Revealed There is
Something Fundamentally Wrong"
Solo PIaza Offers Several Points in Which
Y. S. Cooperation Would be More Effective

NEW YORK. May II CUP
Ecuadorean ex-President Gallo Pla-
"a, one of the Latin American Sta
tesmen closer to the United States
and personal friend of Vice Presi-
dent Richard Nixon, has expressed
the opinion that the latter visit to
Latin America reveals the existen-
ce of something fundamentally
wrong" in us. policies toward the
other republics of the Western Re
misphere.
1T would be wrong to blame On
ly communist elements for the re-
grettable incidents in several of
our capitals, said the Ecuadorean
politician and diplomat. "The mega
tive ingredients to create a eli
mate propotious to provoke them
was there, and the communists en-
ly took advantage of them to chan
mel them for the benefit of their
constant campaign aimed to dis
credit the United States. What
they did is a shame for all of us
and is not in accordance with the
traditional hospitality Of Latin
Americans"
In an analysis of the incidents,
in an interview with United Press,
Gallo Plaza referred also to other
factors, or ingredients, as he call
them, as follows:
"The attitude of sectors opposed
to the Governments, who took
advantage of the occasion to ex-
press their feelings, should not be
underestimated, and also the ap-
pearance of genuine resentment of
democratic elements Of our coun-
tries toward certain attitudes of
extreme friendship and sympathy
of the Department of State with
the dictators."
He pointed out as a Significant
coincidence that where the Incl
dents were more serious, Lima and
Caracas, Generals Manuel Odria
and Marcos Perez Jimenez had
Diario las Américas., 1958-05-18
TEMPERATURE
log e@mS8gF@de
Resardins Nixon's Tour
The Problem is Not an
Economic One Only

Referring briefly to Nixon's
recent tour through some Latin
American countries, it is a mat
ter of justice to condemn the
unjustified physical and moral
a~ggressions against the illustri-
Gus visitor, and it is also a mat
ter of justice to render tribute
to his and his distinguished
wife's personalities because both,
with extraordinary integrity,
with magnificent serenity, knew
how to tackle such regrettable
circumstances, which have been
repudiated by all the decent
and educated people of Latin
America.
With respect to the reaction
closely confirmed by the Vice
President of the United States
in this trip, it is important to
point out that the Latin Ameri-
cans not only demand, in the
name of Inter-American solidar-
ity, an a dequate and logical
economic cooperation on the
part of the United States, con-
ceived in terms Of mutual adj
vantages, but also there is a
demand for political cooperation,
in the sense of strengthening
democracy throughout the con.
tinent.
Thus, the preoccupations both
ering the Latin Americans are
not of a material nature only.
The peoples of our Hemisphere
want the United States, with
their rich theological resources,
with their unquestionable influ-
ence, to encourage the operation
of continental democracy, rather
than encourage with unneces.
sary manifestations Of friend
ship, in many instances not only
unnecessary but exaggerated, the
individuals who subdue their
eountrymen under the guises Of
the republican system.
Mr.. Nixon knows now, perhaps
better than no one else. because
he heard it and felt it personally
among responsible elements
mot among the individuals
whose outbursts of violence
placed them beyond, the limits
of public respect that Latin
Americans deeply resent such
indifference, to say not support
whether apparent or real
towards the Latin American die
t~atorial regimes. In the mighty
dangerous and rapid develop
ment of these relationships, the
degrading extreme has come to
exist that these sporadic cases
progress into dynastic institu-
tions.
Diario las Américas., 1958-05-18

WHO NAMED IT? AND WHY?
If you know the answer to this
one, Congressman Charlie Bennett
would like to hear from you.
1t started last week when hea-
rings were being held - two i'm
portant Florida waterway proyectS
the Cross State Canal and the
deepening of the st. Johns River.
While preparing his testimony
for the committe, Congressman Be-
nnett spent many hours porting
over old maps of the st. Johns Ri
yer. On a faded map made in 1850
he noticed a tiny island at the
mouth of Ship Yard Creek called
Calypso"
Modern maps refer to it as "Is-
land No. 12". Bennett, always with
flair for the romantic. would like
to know who named it Calypso"
and why. Also, why the name was
discarded for the more prosaic de-
signation of Island No. r."
Originally" Bennett said, "The
isle of Calypso was discarded for
more proSaic designation Of " Is
land No. H."
Originally Bennett said The
isle of Calypso was a mythical is
land where Odysseus was hel capti-
We for seven years by the lovely
daughter of Atlas, Calypso. Ho-
mer tells the story in his Odyssey.
Maybe the person who named The
little three acre island in the st,
Johns was thinking about this Grek
goddess, or maybe he had just re-
turned from Trinidad, where they
play CALYPSO music. Pm curious.
Anyway. l hope the stop calling it
Island No r."
CAPITOL SCENE Seen lun-
ching together in the House di-
ming room recently were DR.. j.
Wayne Reitz, President of the Uni
versity of Florida and General
Chester Allen, head of the Wa
shington chapter of the University
of Florida Alumni Association,
both guests of Congressman Billy
Matthews, himself a former direc-
tor of the University Alumni Asso-
citation. Also with them was the
CongresSman's brother-in-law BIZ
lily Lewis, director of the educatio-
nal film department of the Ency.
clopedia Britannica in New York
City.
HOLLAND ROBERTSON BILL
Senator Holland has again intro.
duced his bill to give states the
rights to control labor problems
that concern all public utilities.
This time he has been joined by Sc.
nator Robertson of Virginia in his
efforts to return this power to 10.
cal jurisdictions. Several states ma.
We tried to enact such laws, but
each time the Supreme Court has
declared their efforts uncontitu
tional. Holland feels his proposed
law would prevent the possibility
OF a labor EAR ever being able tc
paralyze the nation by calling
striki in our communications sys
tenn. Hollands bill would allow sta.
ties to pass laws making it illegal to
strike in our communications sys-
GLIDING telephone, gas, light, and
water systems.
Diario las Américas., 1958-05-18

DR.. Manuel Antonio de Varona,
former Cuban Prime Minister and
President of the Cuban Senate,
has sent to us copy of a letter he
addressed to Vice President Ri
chard M. Nixon, in connection
with the incidents during his South
American tour. The letter reads
Is follows:
Sir:
The press has reported that you
were criticized in Rio, jeered in
Buenos Aires, booed in Bolivia,
stoned in Peru, and bounced upon,
stoned and cursed in Venezuela.
These incidents are most regret.
table and, although they were not
directed against you personally
they dramatic the intense dis.
satisfaction felt by Latin Ameri
cans with American foreign pc.
hey.
U. S. = Latin American rela.
tions, on the governmental level
are at a low ebb, while mutual
understanding between our PEG
pies is largely nonexistent, as re
cent events show. Even if the Unit
ed States should adopt a friendlier
kinder, more enlightened policy
toward Latin America, it would
take the U. S. many years to re.
gain its lost position.
Why all this anti-Americanism?
Because we know we are taken for
granted. We know we come last
in American foreign policy. We
now realize that our friendship is
not wanted for its own sake; what
is sdesired is our raw materials
and assistance in case of wal with
Russia. We have discovered that
our serious economic problems and
our struggles to the death with
dictators are matters of practical
ly no concern to Washington. In
other words, we have discovered
that the U. S. is not our big, help.
full brother but an INDIFFERENT
one.
Take the Cuban case. Latin
Americans know of the terror,
misery, and anguish we suffer
under Batista. They know that the
Y. s. has given him millions OF
dollars in war equipment and even
now trains his army, navy and all
force. We have received, ON OUR
FLESH, the full brunt of Ameri
can foreign policy operating thru
asFascist despot. Can the U. S
oppose Communism on theological
grounds if it assists Fascism in
the Americas? If the American
people feel no love for the Cubans
how can they possibly have good
feelings for other Americans far.
ther away? Pleasant words, Sir
are not enough.
One thing we know. Communist
were not wholly responsible for
Diario las Américas., 1958-05-18
Eight Arrested in
caraeas; Molotov
CocktaiIs Seized

Caracas (UP) Police investiga-
ton service seized 500 "Molotov
cocktails" gasoline Bottles in the
cellar of a residential house in the
outskirts of the city, whose owner,
identified as Elena de Otero, was
arrested with other seven persons.
Captain Bothonier, chief of the
second section of the staff of the
police armed forces, officially an
nounced the seizure in a meeting
with the press.
Bothonier reported that when
the agents entered the cellar, Mrs.
Otero was speaking by telephone
with an unknown person, to whom
she said: "the police seized the
bombs"
The official said that among the
arrested there are some women
and Armando Leoni, member of
the communist Party of San Jose
Avila, a ward of Caracas where the
bombs were found, together with
documents and photographs.
Diario las Américas., 1958-05-18
British Honduras
Govt. Rejects All
CuutemuIan Claims
TO Its Territory

BELIZE (UP) The government
of British Honduras approved a re-
solution rejecting the territorial
claims of Guatemala on that terri
tory.
The government approved the
resolution in an extraordinary
meeting.
y The resolution reads as follows:
"the people of British Honduras
entirely and absolutely rejects all
sovereignty claims Of Guatemala is
on this territory and In the people
name We represent we ask you all
to oppose such claims, which seem
repulsive to the people of Bristish
Honduras"
The government decided that
John Profumo under Secretary of
State, deliver a copy to the British
Crown wnen he returns to London
next Sunday.
The wording Of the resolution
comedies in all its parts with the
third paragraph of a petition pre-
sented to Profumo by the two op-
position parties of British Hondu-
ras, the party Of Honduras Inde-
pendence and the National Party
a petition George Price, head of
the majority party the Union Pc
pular (PUP) refused to accept.
The first two paragraphs of the
petition say that "the people of
Honduras has been profoundly
concerned ano resented by the re-
cen: statements of the President
OF Guatemala and considers the at
titute OF her President, Miguel Ydi-
goras FuenteS, towards our coun-
try, as a menace to our political
peace and our peaceful economic
development"
Diario las Américas., 1958-05-18

been decorated by the Us. when
they were in power.
Plaza, who had an opportunity
to talk with Nixon when he arrived
in Ecuador from Peru, believes
that the US. Vice President was
right in trying to seek, by all means
direct contact with the people in
the places he visited. S
Saying that Nixon could have
avoid all d"isagrreable incidents sti-
cking to protocol, and talking on
ly to Government officials, he ad-
ded:
@'The Vice President returns
with first hand information that
there are serious problems in La
tin America, in particular in the
economic field, which will become
more serious a slong as we CONT
nue. postponing the task of impro-
wing living conditions of the mas
ses. The Vice President, to whom
l spoke in Quito just after the Ii
ma incidents, is convinced about
the serious problems facing Latin
America, as well as the great i'm
portance they have for the United
States"
Shortly before leaving for Wa
shington, Plaza expressed earnest
hope that "the Unfortunate Incl
cidentS, which do not represent the
traditional feelings of our peoples,
will be understood in their just
proportions, and that the need for
a new policy toward Latin Ameri-
ca will be recognized in the Uni
ted States.
He belives that policy should be
dynamic, positive, and Imaginative.
The E~cuadorean ex-President, an
expert in agricultural and econo-
mic problems believes the United
States should cooperate with La
tin America in the following:
An agreement for sterilization
of raw materials prices, as was al
ready done with sugar. ct should
not be forgotten he said that
any small fluctuation in those pri.
ces, only noticeable in the United
States, is of catastrophe proper
ton for our countries"
A careful application of the
agreements on sale of agricultural
surplusses, so that it will serve to
solve food problems, but without
the effects of dumping" for the
essentially agricultural economies
of Latin America.
Latin America needs all Dos
sible cooperation in her efforts to
mechanic agriculture and for ade-
quate industrialization offering a
wider, less vulnerable, economic
foundation.
sit is up to the United States -
Plaza said to disipate the current
belief throughout Latin America
that it is convenient for this coun-
try to maintain her permanently
as producer of raw materials, while
selling to her manufactured pro
ducts.
nixon already made categori-
calN statements on this regard and
pointed out the need that the Uni.
ted States looks with favor upon
the formation of a Latin American
common market, but these state
ments must be repeated insistently
and words supported with facts
he affirmed.
Diario las Américas., 1958-05-18

We regard. aid to dictators, Sir,
as a slap in u faces, and we have
been slapped so often and so vigor-
ously that we are blue in the face.
Those $780, 900 slated for Tru-
Jillo represent to us, Sir, an Amer
lean investment in Fascism and a
blow against our Democratic as
pirations.
The people of Venezuela behaved
a%bominably toward you. But for
ten long, horrible years they
were exploited, raped, slaughtered,
kicked, slapped, insulted d, and
chained. No one, much less the
United States, heard loud, excru-
ciating cries. Nobody cared. But
the man responsible for such
shocking atrocities was called, by
an American Ambassador, IAN
exemplary friend Of the United
States, was given an American
medal, and is now a U. s. resident.
You experienced a day of infamy
on May 8, 1858, at Lima and later
at Caracas. But as long as three
J American military missions are
kept in Cuba, every day will be
a day of infamy for 100000 Gu
bans.
Diario las Américas., 1958-05-18

to all the world that America does
not harbor a grudge."
Neuberger criticized the Presi.
dents dispatch of troops to the
Caribbean to go to Nixon's aid, if
needed, after he was stoned and
spat upon in Venezuela. He said
the "innuendos of possible us
military intervention. merely
permits US to be put in the same
class as Soviet Russia, which used
sword and flame against poor
Hungary"
Diario las Américas., 1958-05-18
HEMISPHERE EVENTS
Latin American News in Brief

Rodriguez Adame said two weeks
ago that Mexico will soon begin
exporting powdered eggs. He added
that until a few months ago, the
country imported some three tons
OF eggs daily. but the govern
ment's assistance program to poul-
try farmers has boosted eggs pro-
duction considerably.
Exports of powdered eggs will
be made from surplus production
OF two egg-dehydrating plants now
under construction in Northern
Mexico and expected to start
operating in a few months.
Diario las Américas., 1958-05-18
SOMOZA PRAISES
VILLEDA MORALES

MANAGUA, Nicaragua )up) -
Gen. Anastazio S0mozs Jr., Com
mander of the National Guard,
praised neighborlng Honduras for
blocking an invasion attempt by a
group Of Nicaraguan revolutionar-
les.
He complimented the Govern
ment of President Ramon Villeda
Morales tor maintaining its "in.
ternational obligations for neu.
trality' by arresting the revolu.
tionaries and then deporting them
Somoza was referring to the
group Of Nicaraguan rebels who
seized 3 Lanica Nicaraguan Air
lines plane in Miami, Fla, two
weeks ago and used ii to transport
a load Of arms to Honduras. The,
were captured and deported t,
Guatemala.
Diario las Américas., 1958-05-18

the us Government from raising
present import duties on copper,
lead and zinc.
Howe and his wife sail on the
Grace Line ship Santa Maria"
from New York today and will ar
rive at Santiago at the end OF
May
Diario las Américas., 1958-05-18
MAYA DE LA TORRE TO
LECTURE IN EUROPE

PARIS, (UP). Raul Haya de
la Tore, Peruvian political leader
and head of the Aprista Party, ar.
rived here today from Lima via
Zurich.
Haya de la Tore expects to re-
main two or three months in Euro
pc. He will deliver series of
lectures at Paris Sorbonne Uni
yersity, at Oxford University in
Britain and at the Institute Of
Latin-Amsriean Affairs IN Ham
burg.
Diario las Américas., 1958-05-18

Respectfully yours,
Manuel Antonio de varona
Former Prime Minister and
President of the Cuban Senate