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DECLASSIFIED
THE FOREIGN SERVICE
E. O. 11652, Sec. 3(E) and 5(D) or (E)
#
OF THE
Dept. of State letter, Aug. 9, 1973
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
Bz NLT- He . NARS Date 6-23-75
CONF IDENTIAL
American Embassy
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
December 20, 1946
My dear Mr. President:
For the past year and a half I have been observing
with great concern the rapid growth of communism in this
hemisphere and it has progressed by alarming degrees.
There is no organization nor political party in South
America preaching United States democratic theories although
it is irrefutable that no policy has brought to the masses
as many social benefits, as much education and a greater
measure of peace than has our system of government.
The communists in South America are selling ignorant
and uneducated people a bill of goods, using "Yankee
Imperialism" as the theme song. It is very difficult
to find an antidote for blank checks being used by the
dispensers of this ideology and the communists will
never be called upon to cash them. They promise the
moon, they secure the vote, they elect their candidates,
and once in power they create a dictatorship which main-
tains its power by the force of arms, massacre and treach-
ery. The poor misguided and unfortunate citizen finds
himself enslaved.
Our Export-Import Bank loans of $50,000,000 for a
steel plant, $19,000,000 for an iron ore project, or an
$80,000,000 subsidy on coffee (using only three of the
many as examples) does not reach the masses of people
in this country. I do not say that Export-Import Bank
loans for worthwhile industrial undertakings are not
sound, but it is not the answer to our approach to
developing further the Good Neighbor Policy which has
to such a great extent promoted good will in the hemisphere.
I attended
The Honorable
Harry S. Truman,
The President of the United States,
The White House,
Washington.
ARCHIVES "NATIONAL RECORDS
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SERVICE'
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