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Self-Plagiarism and Foreign Policy

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 October 2022

Bryce Wood
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As the Secretary of State looks out over the Potomac River, pondering reports from his embassies to the south, the fundamental question: “What is it?” comes to him again and again. Is a new regime in a Latin American country controlled by “agrarian reformers,” “moderate socialists,” “malleable leftists,” “Christian Democrats,” “safe militarists,” or—others?

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Latin American Research Review , Volume 3 , Issue 3 , Summer 1968 , pp. 184 - 191
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Copyright © 1968 by the University of Texas Press

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Mr. Wood is author of The Making of the Good Neighbor Policy and The United States and Latin American Wars, 1932–1942 (New York: Columbia University Press, 1961, 1966).

References

NOTES

1. Consultation Among the American Republics with Respect to the Argentine Situation, Memorandum of the United States Government, (Washington, D.C., U.S. Government Printing Office, February 1946), Dept. of State Publication 2473, Inter-American Series 29. 86 p. Cuba, (Washington, D.C., U.S. Government Printing Office, April 1961), Dept. of State Publication 7171, Inter-American Series 66. 36 p. U.S. Policy Toward Cuba, (Washington, D.C., U.S. Government Printing Office, May 1964), Dept. of State Publication 7690, Inter-American Series 88. 22 p.

2. Dept. of State Publication 3573, Far Eastern Series 30, Division of Publications, Office of Public Affairs, Released August 1949. This document, of 1054 pages, contains on the title page the statement: “Based on the Files of the Department of State;” it is sometimes referred to as the “China White Paper.

3. A Case History of Communist Penetration: Guatemala, (Washington, D.C., U.S. Government Printing Office, 1957), Dept. of State Publication 6465, Inter-American Series 52, Released April 1957, Public Services Division. 73 p.

4. Intervention of International Communism in Guatemala, (Washington, D.C., U.S. Government Printing Office, 1954), Dept. of State Publication 5556, Inter-American Series 48, Released August 1954. 96 p.

5. A different policy was followed in a later case. The Department of State announced publicly that it would revise a pamphlet Background Berlin—1961, “to make sure ‘no criticism is implied or intended’ of General Eisenhower's wartime belief that the Western armies could be more usefully employed elsewhere rather than in an assault on Berlin.” New York Times, September 20, 1961.

6. “Blue Book,” p. ii.

7. Address, June 30, 1954, text in “Blue Book,” p. 30.

8. “Green Book,” p. 1.

9. “Blue Book,” p. 42.

10. Ibid., p. 43.

11. Ibid., p. 44–45.

12. Ibid., p. 45.

13. Ibid., p. 67.

14. Ibid., p. 73.

15. Ibid., p. 75.

16. “Blue Book,” p. 66; “Green Book,” p. 36.

17. “Blue Book,” p. 68.

18. “Green Book,” p. 37.

19. “Blue Book,” p. 7. Speech by Secretary Dulles, Caracas, March 8, 1954. Earlier in the same speech, the Secretary said: “… we would be false to our past unless we again proclaimed that the extension to this hemisphere of alien despotism would be a danger to us all, which we unitedly oppose.” (Ibid., p. 6) Italics supplied.

20. “Blue Book,” p. 44; “Green Book,” p. 13.