Page 4 University Daily Kansan Wednesday, March 14, 1962
Diplomat Says U.S. Must Alter Outlook
A 64-year-old Latin American diplomat, interpreter, and educator said yesterday that Americans must start looking at Latin American problems through the eyes of Latin Americans.
Prof. Herberto Sein, a native of Mexico, spoke on "Half a Hemisphere in Revolution." He has been an interpreter for 25 years, primarily for the United Nations and its agencies, and has represented Latin America as a diplomat.
AMERICA, SEIN SAID, "pushed Cuba into the arms of the Russians"
and missed a historic opportunity by a "negative and unconstructive attitude." He said he feels America lost a healthy influence in Latin America because of this attitude.
Latin Americans now have a "conflict of images," he said. It appears to them that the U.S. is incapable of understanding Latin American revolutions and that Russia does understand and gives the kind of constructive aid needed, he said.
Sein said the exclusion of Cuba from the Alliance for Progress program is unwise. He pointed out that
String Quartet to Play Tonight
The University String Quartet will hold a chamber music recital at 8 o'clock tonight in Swarthout Recital Hall on the Faculty Recital Series.
The Quartet will be joined by Roy Hamlin Johnson, associate professor of piano, in one of the numbers. This will be Prof. Johnson's second recital appearance here in eight days.
The group is composed of Raymond Cerf, professor of string in-
sturuments, 1st violin; Theodore Johnson, assistant professor of organ and theory, 2nd violin; Karel Blaas, associate professor of string instruments, viola, and Raymond Stuhl, associate professor of string instruments, cello.
The program will be the Quartet in A Minor, Op. 132 by Beethoven and the Quintet Op. 57 for Piano and String Quartet by Dimitri Shostakovitch. Prof. Johnson will join the Quartet on the latter number.
only six nations voted against this decision, but that these six countries represent 70 per cent of the Latin American population.
WHILE EACH LATIN AMERICAN nation has its own special problems, Sein said, there are certain common denominators for all the countries. Feudalism is one common denominator, he said, pointing out that three-fourths of the arable land in Latin America is owned by two per cent of the population.
Sein blamed many Latin American ills on a "triple alliance" made up of the military, which holds back any progressive government reform; the landed gentry with their "feudalistic mentality and suicidal attitude"; and the foreign interests which control Latin American resources and find it expedient to side with the rest of the alliance members.
He said the Roman Catholic Church in Latin America does not favor reform or progressive government and is in close association with the "triple alliance."
form through land redistribution, a graduated income tax, and legislation to provide equality of opportunity and equality before the law.
THREE GREAT REFORMS ARE necessary in Latin America, Sein said. These reforms are agrarian re-
Sein said terms of trade between Latin American nations and the United States are making American laborers richer and Latin American laborers poorer.
Latin Americans, he said, do not determine trade prices and are "capitive economies." This "great economic imbalance" must be corrected, he said, before Latin America can progress at any noticeable rate.
Sein said he is disturbed by the attitude of Latin Americans that the United States is to blame for all their troubles. He said that too many Latin Americans are not insisting on their rights and are not doing anything to help themselves.
PROGRESS TOWARD democracy in Latin America will be difficult, Sein said. It will not be like the progress of nations of Anglo-Saxon origin, he said, because Latin America started out differently.
"No one seeks to be a carbon copy of the United States," he said, "but democracy is possible where people are."
800 Tickets Remain For Limeliters Show
Over 800 tickets are still available for the Limeliters concert Saturday at 8:30 p.m. in Hoch Auditorium. All tickets are $1.
250 reserved seat tickets for the first balcony and 560 general admission tickets for the second balcony are on sale at the Information Booth on Jayhawk Boulevard and in the Kansas Union.
2700 tickets have been sold so far, most of them in dormitories and other organized living groups.
SUA Offers Tour Of Nelson Gallery
The SUA Art Forum will sponsor a bus trip tomorrow to the Nelson Art Gallery in Kansas City. The bus will leave from the Kansas Union at 1 p.m. and return at approximately 5 p.m.
While in Kansas City, students will be able to see the "Syracuse International Semantics Show." Tickets are on sale in the Kansas Union for $1.
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