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University Daily Kansan
Friday, April 20, 1962
On Hemisphere Policy—
By Robert D. Tomasek Assistant Professor of Political Science
THE MAKING OF THE GOOD NEIGHBOR POLICY, by Bryce Wood, Columbia University Press, 1961. $7.50.
This is one of the outstanding books to be published on Latin America in recent years. The author, largely through a diplomatic history approach, traces the origins, evolution, and policy making of the United States' Good Neighbor Policy toward Latin America from 1927 to 1943. The focus is on a detailed reconstruction of separate United States policy moves involving intervention in Nicaragua in the late 1920s, interference in Cuba in the early 1930s, negotiations with Bolivia and Mexico in 1937 and 1938 over the expropriation of American oil holdings, and collaborative discussions with Venezuela in the late 1930s and early 1940s to prevent a possible oil expropriation.
THE PURPOSE OF the author is to demonstrate how major policy makers such as Henry Stimson, Sumner Welles and Cordell Hull learned through painful experiences the consequences of interference in Latin American domestic matters. The lesson was learned in Nicaragua and Cuba. Thus in 1937 and 1938 the administration refused to intervene in Bolivia and Mexico to protect private oil interests. Negotiations over the extent and date of compensations to the oil companies were considered a more suitable approach for a good neighbor.
The book is diplomatic history at its best. The author has gone beyond the usual secondary source materials to examine in great detail the unpublished diplomatic correspondence of that period. He painstakingly sifted through memorandums, telegrams, instructions, etc. — a job that must have taken years.
THE BOOK IS beautifully written. The author calls his work an essay and that it is. Each experience of the foreign policy makers is analyzed and connected to the past experiences. By 1943 the author concludes that the State Department men interested in Latin America had worked out a realistic policy toward the hemisphere that involved reciprocal interests.
This book should be required reading for every governmental official connected with our Latin American policy today. The "new frontiersmen" dabbling with Latin American affairs today have neither the stature, respect, nor experience of men such as Welles, and Hull. However, they can learn. And when considering possible intervention in Cuba or the Dominican Republic, regardless of the motive, they might learn by reading a book of this type rather than learning by hard experience.
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These six volumes, with the usual repetitions one finds in anthologies (I must have "A Doll's House" in five or six different collections), are great riches of world drama. There is wide range here. The Ibsen plays are "Hedda Gabler." "A Doll's House." "The Wild Duck." "Rosmersholm." "The Master Builder." John Gabriel Borkman" and "When We Dead Awaken." Several of these are very familiar. Here was one of the most penetrating thinkers of his time, and his works range from the powerfully realistic "Hedda Gabler," that bitter and miserable modern woman, to the symbolic and poetic "When We Dead Awaken," a strange fantasy set in the mountain country of Norway.
IBSEN ALSO SHOWS up in "Six Great Modern Plays," the repetition being "The Master Builder," with its shattering climax of a great builder—he refused the term architect — falling to his death from a tower he had designed. Chekhov is here with his mood piece of the frustrated "Three Sisters." Shaw's 'Mrs. Warren's Profession,' which dared to deal with a lady of easy virtue, is here, as are O'Casey's "Red Roses for Me," with its ringing
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