Merle Kling’s slim volume, Mexican Interest Groups in Action, which appeared last year, should serve as warning that the new conservatism is on the march in a Castillian guise. While the Mexican chambers of commerce are passing out the right wing economics of the Foundation for Economic Education, the Instituto de Estudios Políticos of Madrid has made Senator Barry Goldwater and James Burnham available in a translation of a number of articles, mostly from the National Review. This collection includes Senator Goldwater’s famous discourse, “Victory over Communism,” delivered before the Air War College at Montgomery, Alabama; his article from which the title of the book is derived, first printed in Modern Age; and some six articles by James Burnham and Frank S. Meyer on the arms race and Russo-American relations. These articles contain nothing new for the American reader except, perhaps, a feeling of how rapidly the world changes: articles written in 1960 still refer to Nasser as a Soviet puppet!
The effect in Latin America of one statement by Senator Goldwater did intrigue me:
Cuando hablamos de la opinión mundial, nos referimos al consensus de dos mil milliones de seres humanos, de los cuales en su mayor parte no conocemos absolutamente nada acerca de sus opiniones; nos referimos a ese reducido sector de la población mundial que puede hacerse oír. Intelectuales, periodistas, organizadores de motines callejeros. . .. Cuando permitimos a la opinión mundial determinar nuestra política hacia Trujillo y Syngman Rhee, lo que en realidad hacemos es dar voz a nuestros enemigos mortales acerca de los asuntos de nuestra incumbencia (p. 24).
No matter how you translate it, it is still Goldwater.