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of State for Inter-American Affairs.
Vaughin has become an apologist for mil
itary take-over. Gorden as Arbossider.
to Brazil favored the overthrow of its
constitutional President by a cabal of
the military, the landed oligarchy and
urban property. U
Stone continued to note:
"our instant support of the military
was regarded as signalling the end
of Kennedyism, (as be. Monde said at
the time) 11 (I.E. Stone's Weekly,
March 7, 1966, p. 3.)
From our perspective, the elimination of Goulart was taken
as
a great day for democracy. The Nation specified some of the.
great developments for democracy:
"There have been 8,000 arrests. Forty
(or is it sixty by now?) members of the
Brazilian congress have been expelled.
An old line general is running the show
Everyone who proposed a decent system of
taxation, or abolishing illiteracy or
enlarging the franchise, or giving land
to the peasants, is a communist
(The Nation , April 27, 1964, p. 406.)
What is significant is not that President Johnson called
into office men who might better express his own political style or
views, but that powerful interests, particularly those advocating
a military hard line, who had to be held in check by Truman,
Eisenhower and Kennedy, were now being given their own way. It is
not that the military and the military -industrial complex were
not always a threat and danger, and it is not that they always did
not exert a tremendous influence, but it is that after the
assassination, it seemed almost more as if they were in control
rather than merely being influential. In the Domincan Republic
hopes for a pro democratic regime were crushed by the active inter
vention of the United States. Theodore Draper says:
-67-
67
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