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    "ocrText": "-20-\nb. More attention to Latin America, at the highest levels of our\ngovernment, is desirable. Regular visits to the Pan American Union by\n12/\nthe President would be of great psychological advantage and consideration\nshould be given to a visit to Latin America by the President or the Secretary\nof State at some appropriate time in the future. Official press releases\nand statements and speeches by the highest officials should be prepared\nwith a regard for their psychological impact on the area.\nCo We should look for and seize opportunities to encourage foreign\npolicy leadership from Latin America in support of our own and give them\nthe credit for exercising leadership when they do it well. This would\nbe greatly facilitated by increased consultation and closer relationship\nbetween\n12 Latin Americans feel strongly that no sooner had we concluded our long\ncourtship of them, culminating in the Chapultepec Conference of 1945,\nthan we proceeded to jilt them and become involved in adventures\nelsewhere. During the 30's Latin American ambassadors in Washington\ndealt in terms of intimacy with Messrs. Roosevelt, Hull and Welles\nwhereas they now find little attention paid them by the high echelons\nof our government and, on occasions, relatively low-ranking officers in\nother Departments fail to show them even the customary courtesies.\nHaving become accustomed in years past to hearing their countries\nconstantly referred to and closely coupled with the name of the United\nStates in the President's foreign policy speeches, now they are seldom\nmentioned, or worse, are grouped with the #backward areas\" of Asia and\nAfrica. To illustrate a trend which has created a deep psychological\nproblem with Latin Americans, whereas General Goes Monteiro, Chief of\nStaff of the Brazilian Armed Forces, dealt directly with President\nRoosevelt when he came to the United States in 1939, when he returned\nin 1952 to negotiate on troops for Korea he dealt with a Brigadier\nGeneral and an Assistant Secretary of State. (It may be mentioned in\nthis connection that the proposal to change the title of the Assistant\nSecretary of State will not solve this problen since his relative rank\nand position in our hierarchy could not be changed.)\nDECLASSIFIED\nE. O. 11652, Sec. 3(E) and 5(D) or\nDept. of\nState letter, 5-3-77\nBx NC MARS 5-27-77"
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