Diario las Américas Newspaper, April 26, 1957, Page 10

Inter - American News for English - Speaking people “4th YEAR @. A..SAN ROMAN President FRANCISCO AGUIRRE . Vice President and Publisher Antonio Ruiz Managing Editor c. W. Business Vice President THE'AM For a better understanding between the Americas MIAMI SPRINGS, FLA., FRIDAY, APRIL 26, 1957 8. SMIPE Vice President HORACIO AGUIRRE SMITH! Vice President. Editor and Manager Fred M. Shaver Eliseo Riera-Gémez Manager Advt. & Cire. Mgr. Published daily except Monday — Entered as second class matter at the Post Office of Miami Sprmgs. Fla.. on February 8. 1956. EDITORIAL BENEFITS TO RUSSIA IN THE COLD WAR Because of the very nature of communist imperialism, the task of achieving military strength is a matter of vital importance to Russia. Together with this task, Communist Government leaders maintain a constant and open campaign of international political agitation, supported in great part by the Soviet military resources. Both create an interna- tional effervescence which forces democratic nations, in particular the United States of America, to be.on guard in defense of the vital interests of western civilization. Russia, with her already the advantage of maintaining unbelievable state’ of unrest, famous cold war, is deriving the rest of the world in an and that the United States spends enormous amounts of money in defense plans, plus the added advantage of creating a climate of interna- tional ‘mistrust, propitious in communist policies. It can be stated outright extreme to the purposes of that Russia always emerges the winner in the cold war, although this does not mean at all that she will win an armed struggle, if unfortunately that tragic moment should arrive. 4 Russia is always the winner in the cold war, because the mere fact that such war exists at her will, causing enormous harm to the democratic nations, constitutes a triumph that would not be logical trying to deny. The fact that, within the struggles of the cold war, the western nations defende themselves and prevent complete realization of the Soviet plans, does not mean that, in essence, the cold war is not a victory for Considered a New the power which exclusively has an interest in that type of war: Russia. THE MIDDLE EAST CRISIS AND THE EISENHOWER DOCTRINE Jordan’s case is adquiring such proportions it seems to indicate that the world is in the brink of a new and critical international crisis. If this crisis degenerates in an armed clash in the Middle East, complications related to United States interven- tion must come up immediately, because, in the manner in which the problem is planned, the Washington Govern- ment would find itself forced to put in practice the Eisenhower’s Doctrine on the Middle East. The dangers brought about by a complication of this ' mature are so many that, with reason, there is world concern caused by the events in that region of the Earth, the political lot of wich is intimately linked to the equili- brium of international ‘peace. CANTINFLAS GETS OVATION AT PAU WASHINGTON, April 25 (UP) Mario Moreno (Cantinflas) got an ovation when he was introduced to. the personnel of the Pan Ame- rican Union. Cantinflas, who is here in a three day visit as guests of Mexican Am- bassador Manuel Tello, visited the Pan American Union to be introd- uced to the Secretary General of the Organization of American States, Dr. José A. Mora. About 400 employees aplauded clamor- ously when he entered the Hall of the Americas, where the OAS’ Council holds its sessions, Miguel Aranguren, Colombian, Sub Director of Public Relations, presented him in the name of the personnel of the Pan American Union with a little statue repre- senting the character he has made famous in the movies. Aranguren said that the Mexican actor is the first one to receive this distinction ing in the movies — and will have the name of “El Cantinflas.” After receiving the statue, the comedian looked at it and then to those present, and said: “I know this little squirt.” Mora presented Cantinflas the flags of the 21 countries members of the OAS, in miniature on a wood stand. Mora praised Cantin- flas as a symbol of the close co- operation among the American countries and for his work in pro- moting Panamericanism. The co- median answered, deeply touched, that he would like to visit each and every one of the OAS coun- tries to personally thank their peoples for their kindness toward him. Cantinflas, accompan y Am- bassador Tello, had lunc.. with White House Assistant Maxwell Raab. In the evening, Luis Quin- tanilla, Mexican Ambassador to the OAS, gave a reception in his hon- — which will be awarded for act- LETTERS TO THE EDITOR or. %, PAN AMERICAN WEEK IN ORLANDO The President of Los Gringos Spanish Club, Orlando Junior Col- lege, addressed a letter to our Edi- tor, Dr. Horacio Aguirre, com- menting on the ceremonies which took place in that Florida city dur- ing Pan American Week. Thé let- ter signed by Leland E. Rise, pre- sident of the Club, says: “I feel sure that you will be pleased to note the enclosed edi- torial published. in the April 14th issue of the Orlando Sentinel, not only because it pays recognition to Pan American Day but also because of its quotation from the DIARIO LAS AMERICAS. “Perhaps you may also be in- terested to know that Los Gringos, our Spanish club at Orlando Jun- jor College actively participated during Pan American week in spe- tial endeavors to acquaint the stu- dents on our campus with the meaning of Pan Americanism. Throughout the week, a Latin American arts and crafts exhibit was displayed in the college lib- rary and on April 12th our club sponsored a student assembly pro- gtam which emphasized the Pan American theme. “May I also add that the DIA- RIO LAS AMERICAS is being used in our Spanish classes and has proved to be a popular source of material for discussion and trans- lation, Sincerely yours. (signed) Leland E. Rice, President, Los Grin- ‘gos Spanish Club.” The editorial to which the let- ter refers states: LATIN AMERICAN FRIENDS APRIL 14 HAS been designated Pan American Day by the Pan American Union in Washington, D.C. L. E. Rice, president of the Los Gringos Spanish Club of Or- Jando Junior College, says special efforts will be made there this week to acquaint the students of the college with the meaning of Pan Americanism. At a time when we of the Unit- ed States are spending billions of dollars in remote corners of the world in dubious ventures of po- litical and economic aggrandize- ment, we should strive to remem- ber that no other nations hold so much economic promise or politic- al importance to us as those which lie south of the border. “If Latin America is approach- ed with a carefully studied plan, with mutual advantages, which Know thy eighbor By ANTONIO RUIZ PANAMA — Although the soil of Panamé is very fertile and rain- fall and other climate conditions are favorable to cultivation of tropical products, only .a fraction of the rich interior plains and val- leys has been cultivated. In normal times this is primarily due to the general lack of interest in farm- ing, as the population trend is to- ward the crowded coastal cities; but the shortage of farm labor was greaty aggravated by the diver- sion of manpower for wartime con- struction work in Colén and Pana- ma, and commercial agriculture now has to compete for labor with the high paid city jobs. This pre- sents a serious problem for a coun- try largely dependent upon im- ports for its consumer goods. The Panamanian Government, well aware of the importance of agriculture to the internal develop- ment of the Republic, has been giving special attention to practic- al aids to the farmer. It has inau- gurated a far-reaching agricultural and industrial program intended to make the nation more self suf- ficient. A National School of Agriculture and an experimental program were established to in- troduce more up-to-date farming methods; and in an educational campaign, through press, radio and the mails, even the most isolated communities are being kept in- formed on farm prices, new culti- vation methods, assistance avail- able from the Government, ete Numerous stations were set up throughout the country for distri- bution of selected seeds, fruit trees, baby chicks, and fertilizers. Many cooperative farm societies have been organized, whose mem- bers may use modern farm equip- ment acquired on a cooperative ba- sis. The “Banco: Agro-Pecuario e TJadustrial” has played an import- ant role in encouraging agricul- tural production through the ex- tension of credits to farmer and the adoption of measures for the control of imports. The chief products raised and consumed in Panama are rice, corn, yucca, sugar cane, plantains, beans, coffee, beef, pork, and poul- try. The principal exports are ba- nanas, abaca fiber, cacao, coconuts, and cattle hides. Rice is the staff cf life in Panamé, the per capita consumption amounting to over 100 pounds a year. Thanks to the Government ini- tiative, rice growing is a flourish- ing industry of the country; spe- cial varieties of seeds have been mtroduced from abroad, protective tariffs set up, and the price stab- ilized with the establishment by the Government of 78 rice-hulling mills in various localities. Produc- tion is estimated in about 100 mil- lion pounds a year. Corn, which formerly was raised only to feed livestock, forged to the front in the nation’s agricultur- al production to meet wartime needs, There are six large sugar mills, which account for almost all the sugar production of the Repub- lic, and since most of the cane they grind is raised on large planta- tions owned by the mill compan- ies, the small farmers, practically all of whom grow some cane, can- not compete because of high labor cost, so the cane they produce is used to make molasses and a crude form of brown sugar. Coffee is grown in the cooler regions such as Boquete, El Vol- can, La Pintada, and Santa. Fe. Here again the cost of labor pre- vents the production of crops larg- er than the required to satisfy the country’s needs, Spanish Version Page 3 really constitutes the key for suc- cess,” says the AMERICAS DAILY of Miami, “the economy of the U. S. as well as that of the Latin American countries will receive positive benefits which will strengthen the bonds of friendship among the 21 nations composing the Inter American System.” Latin American nations are rich in resources and manpower. With their friendly co-operation and as- sistance, we have little to fear from the rest of the world. Without it, with hostile nations so close at hand, we would be in a dangerous plight indeed SDAILY VENEZUELAN GOVT. DELIVERS HOUSING UNIT FOR COLOMBIAN VICTIMS OF CALI EXPLOSION Proof of Fraternity Uniting the Two So. American Nations BOGOTA (SICO) — The Vene- zuelan Ambassador in Colombia, Carlos Felice Cardot, and the Co- lombian Minister of Foreign Rela- tions, José Manuel Rivas Secconi, exchanged cordial messages on the delivery, made by the Ambassador, of the Residential Unit built by Venezuela in the city of Cali for the victims of the disastrou$ ex- plosion last August 7. The mesage of the Colombian Foreign Minister thanks and praises the attitude of the Vene- zuelan Government. Felice Cardot says that the Vene- zuelan Government, wishing to al- leviate the situation of the victims of the disaster, in particular re- garding housing accomodations, with the consent of the Colomb- ian Government “proceeded to the construction in that city, un- der the technical direction of the Banco’ Obrero de Venezuela, of a residential unit consisting of a 15-story building, with 140 apart- ments, with elevators and connect- ed to a shopping center compos- ed of five stores and to a play- ground for children, a church, a sports field and parking space. The Minister explains that, with the project already finished, which has been named “Residential Unit Republica de Venezuela,” follow- ing instructions from his Govern- ment he makes delivery of it to the Colombian nation “as effective rei- teration of Venezuelan fraternity.” He also advises that the firm “Hi- jos de Adolfo Bueno, Ltd.” con- stituted by Venezuelan citizens, owner of the land, where the unit was built, also gives it to the .Co- jombian nation. It covers 43,000 Ambassador | gress, about the communist infilt- Red Infiltration in Bolivia Will be Investigated LA PAZ, Bolivia, April 25 (UP) — Miguel Cavero Eguaquize, of Pert and Ernesto de la Fe, of Cu- ba, members of the Committee in- vstigating the communist infiltra- tion in Bolivia, arrived here from Lima. The. other members of the group should arrive at any mo- jment. The |pointed by the Anti-Communist ian capital, | Interviewed by the United Press Cavero and de la Fe declared: “We come to Bolivia without hate or fear, with a spirit of justice and honesty for compliance of our dif- ficult task.” Refferring to declarations made by a Delegate at the Lima Con- ration in Bolivia, the newly arriv- ed pointed out that said Delegate specified he was informing “about | the situation during the Paz Es- tenssoro Government, as he said he did not know the reality of the problem under the present govern- ment of President Siles Zuazo.” MEXICAN FLYERS END VISIT TO VENEZUELA CARACAS, April 25 (UP)—Me- xican aviators Patricio Milmo Her- nandez and Jorge Fuentes Guaja- ro, who are making Inter Ame- rican tour in a single engine plane left for Trinidad. The aviators, who initiated their trip three months and eleven days | ago in Monterrey — their birth- place — arrived at Caracas yester- day and today continued their comprises Port-Spain. Martinique, Guadeloupe, Puerto Rico, Jamai-| ea, Haiti and Cuba. They expect to square meters. Mexicans Take Measures fo Insure. be in Monterrey within 20 days Committee was ap- | | Congress held, lately at. the Peruv- | trans-Caribbean trip. The itinerary |) te | Colombian Elections Will be Held Within Five Years, May be BOGOTA, April 25 (UP)— Gen- eral Gustavo Rojas Pinilla, Presi- dent of the Republic, revealed in a speech that twenty five persons were beheaded during Easter. The President spoke at the cere- monies of installation of the Na- tional Constituent Assembly and, in his speéch, also mentioned the possibility of holding general elections in 1962, The Chief Executive did not mention dates or’ exact places of the massacre; but it is understood it took place in some of the Toli- ma _ Department’s municipalities, where some focus of violence still exists. The President said that, if the Armed Forces succeed in pacify- ing the country, it would be posi- ble to convoke elections five years hence and announced that the Con- stituent Assembly will study a re- form of the National Constitution and revise all the Decree-Laws dic- tated since 1949, during the en- Member Inter American Press Association For Liberty, Culture and Hemispheric Solidarity NUMBER 239 Communists Trying Again to Gain a Foothold in Latin American Nations. The Need For Vigilance Continues -to be Imperative, WASHINGTON (UP) — The State Department has warned that international communism is again trying to gain a foothold in Latin America . The Department said “thus, the need for vigilance con- tinues to be imperative.” The re- marks were made in a 73-page booklet entitled “A Case History of Communist Penetration . . . Guate- mala.” The booklet outlined in de- tail the rise and fall of communism in Guatemala during the 1944-54 decade, The pro-communist Gov- ernment was overthrown in 1954 after a revolution in which an an- ticommunist army led by Carlos Castillo Armas emerged victorious, However, the booklet said, “the favorable outcome of the Guatema- lan case should not lead us to think either that the problem of communist infiltration has been eliminated from the Americas or that foolproof means. of protect: ing Latin American political in- stitutions have been clearly de. veloped.” “Latin America, the southern ci- tadel of our hemispheric defense forcement of the ‘state of siege. Complete Safety For All Tourists’ MEXICO CITY (UP)— The oil shortage in Europe will probably imduce many European tourists to spend their vacations in México this year, tourist director Francisco Villagran says hopefully. The Government official said Eu- ropean tourists like to drive their own cars and gas rationing in ma- ny European countries caused by the middle east crisis may force many of them to turn to México, “where there is no gas rationing.” Villagrén said this development may mean a big boost to México’s tourist industry, the second most important in the country after the petroleum industry. A local newspaper said Acapul- co’s hotel men were alarmed at the wave of reservation cancellations by American tourists, afraid to tra-| ~ vel to the Pacific resort because of the recent murder there of a wealthy New York couple by a tourist agent and his helper. Villagran said at the time of the ed in any country, and that there was no reason for tourists to stay away from Acapulco. | He said today all kinds of pre- cautions and security measures have been taken for the protection of tourists. “All tourists guides,” he said, “have been carefully screened to make sure they have no police re- cord of any kind and to insure the most courteous and efficient ser-/ vice to tourists.” i In connection with Government | plan sto increase tourist trade, | which last year produced approxi- mately $400,000,000 special inform- ation booths are being installed in all of the country’s federal air- ports. The booths, which will be operat- ed by the Departments of Com-! munications in cooperation with! the Institute of Anthropology and History, will provide folders, maps, pamplets and all types of informa- murder that it could have happen- tion on México’s chief tourist sites. HEMISPHERIC EVENTS Latin American News in Brief Huge U. $. Army Maneuvers in the Panama Canal Zone FORT CLAYTON, Panamé Canal Zone, Ayril 25 (UP)—The bigger military maneauvers ever staged in Central and South America were inaugurated here with a non stop flight of almost 6,506 kilometers by jets fighter planes. Called “Cari- Ex Operation” these maneauvers will comprise 15,000 U. S. soldiers, more than 200 planes and some thirty U. S. Navy ships of diverse types. The war games will end next Saturday. Four SuperSabre jet fighters left the Foster Aerial Base, in the State of Texas, reached the Panama Canal Zone, “attacked” the objetive assigned to them at Gatun Lake (Panama Canal) and returned to their base. At no time they made a landing. It is unknown how many times they were refueled in flight. SOUTH AMERICAN BANKERS TO MEET MONTEVIDEO, Uruguay (UP)— Representatives from the central banks of eight South American countries will meet here April 29 to discuss the basis for setting up a Latin American payments union, The countries ry be represent- ed are Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Para- guay and Uruguay. At present, commercial transac- tions between these countries are paid through bi-lateral accounts. According to figures from the Economic Commission for Latin America, commercial interchange between the eight countries in 19- 56 reached $630 million. MEXICAN MD’S USING “ARTIFICIAL HEART” MEXICO CITY (UP)— A well- known Mexican physician said Me- xican doctors are increasingly us- ing the “artificial heart” for opera- tions of the heart. ‘ Dr. José Meneses Hoyos said an operation to close an opening in a ventricle was performed recently in the Military Hospital of México City and artificial heart was “suc- cessfully used.” The artificial heart is a machine where the blood from the organ is diverted for periods of as much as half an hour while surgeons work on ‘he heart: EUROPE BUYING MORE BEANS FROM MEXICO MEXICO CITY (UP)— Various European countries are planning to increase their imports of Me- xican beans, a government offi- cial said. José $, Vivanco, head of the ' = price control and distributing agency (CEIMSA), said import- ent orders have already been re- ceived from Europe for Mexican beans. He did not say how much the orders amount to. He said CEIMSA warehouses are bulging with 110,000 tons of beans, and all orders received from Eu- rupe can be filled without difficul- ty, Large shipments of Mexican beans are made regularly to Central and South America, and Vivanco said these shipments con- tinue to be made “in a normal way.” WELFARE STATE NOT FOR THE AMERICAS BUENOS AIRES (UP)— A Chicago University economist said that the peoples of the Americas and of Europe are becoming disil- lusioned with “economic theories” as solutions to social problems. Frederich Von Hayek, Austrian- born opponent of State Economic Intervention, cited the progress of Germany and Italy under econom- ic liberalism, as contrasted with “economic stagnation in Britain and France, who are vainly at- tempting to bring, about prosper- ity through the socialistic methods of the Welfare State.” Von Hayek said the peoples are turning more and more toward religion and other spiritual outlets — it says — is once again the ob- in search for new answers to so- cial problems, although there is still a strong belief that state in- tervention must be accepted as a “necessary evil.” Here for a series of lectures, Von Hayek said American and Eu- ropean opihion, especially among the young, is becoming daily more convinced that the risks of indivi- dualism are less dangerous than the constraints of collectivism. BETTER CONDITONS FOR HEMISPHERE WOMEN, MEXICO CITY (UP)— Technic- al and labor directors from 11 Lat- in American countries are in ses- ‘sion here, directed toward better- ing conditions for working women in the Hemisphere. The women delegates are meet- ing under the auspices of the In- ter American Women’s Commis- sion of the Organization of Ameri- can States. MEXICANS BOOSTING TOURIST BUSINESS MEXICO CITY (UP)— México hopes to boost the number of American tourists traveling south of the border from 500,000 to 3,- 000,000 yearly by developing its numerous curative mineral water Spas. i The Confederation of National Chambers of Commerce said, it calculates that many tourists can State Dept. Says jective of a communist offensive” and now “the smiles and promises have replaced the threats, although flagrant subversion, espionage and agitation continue.” It adds that the master plan seeks the conquest of a political base in the Americas “to extend communist penetration throughout the New World.” According to the booklet, the Soviet Prime Minister, Nikolai Balganin, initiated a year ago a campaign to extend economic and diplomatic relations in the hemi- sphere, coordinated with efforts of the satellites. “Therefore — it ex- Plains — the communist strategy of the Trojan Horse to penetrate and subvert the independent Lat- in American countries follows a new path, but its destination is the same,” and that subversion is “the greatest danger confronting Ame rica today.” The Department also warns that if Moscow can establish an State. managed by communists in the Western Hemisphere without pro- tection of the Red Army, “it would have open new doors to expansion and conquest.” México - Havana Flying Time is ‘Now 3-4 Hours . MEXICO, D, F., April 25 (UP)—~ Officials of the Compafifa Mexica- na de Aviacién (Mexican Aviation Company) announced today that the time for its flights between the Mexican capital and Havana will be reduced to three and a half hours with the use of the new Super 7-C ptanes, The inaugural flight departed today in a two days trip to Hava- na, carrying a group of officials of the government, newspapermen and directors of the CMA on board. In the return flight a group of 25 Cuban newspapermen will come to México. The directors of the company declared that the new machines have capacity for 65 passengers and their speed in flight attain 360-miles (580 kilometers) per hour. These planes are equipped with radar which enables the pi lot to.“‘see” in the darkness and to land electronically guided. , be attracted from the estimated 17,000,000 * Americans who yearly visit Texas, California and Florida, It announced plans to publicize México’s minerarla springs, proba . bly more numerous here than i any other country ia the world