...D.M.P. Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States. Harry S. Truman, 1952-53 . Washington , 1966 . United States Government Printing Office . Illustration. Appendices. Index . Pp. xlii , 1334 . $9.00 . Copyright 1967 by Duke University Press 1967 Like the volume...

...Richard J. Walter Democracy and U.S. Policy in Latin America during the Truman Years . By Schwartzberg Steven . Gainesville : University Press of Florida , 2003 . Notes. Bibliography. Index. xvi , 311 pp. Cloth , $55.00 . Copyright 2005 by Duke University Press 2005...

...D.M.P. Publication of this volume leaves one more to complete the series of Truman’s public papers. Since the G.P.O. has already brought out the Eisenhower and Kennedy papers and those pertaining to the first year of the Johnson administration, we shall soon have attractive, well-organized...

... privately commented in April. In a letter to Truman a few days later, he repeated his warning about the designs of “our European allies” on Brazil. 10 Ultimately, the Russian threat loomed as the most serious, in Berle’s view. Unless the United States offered resistance to the Soviet “concept of world...

.... It is not surprising that the concept of noninterference, so vital to the Good Neighbor policy , is not considered, nor is it in the index. On termination, The ascension of Harry Truman to the White House ended the Good Neighbor era”; (p. 211) and “Roosevelt’s death marked the end of Good Neighbor diplomacy” (p...

..., Cleveland, Theodore or Franklin Roosevelt, Taft, Wilson, or Truman. The bases were the same—the desire and determination to impose the imperial sway of the United States on Latin America and to prevent the development there of social and economic reforms. To demonstrate the alleged truth...

...; Truman’s opposition to the government of Juan Perón; Truman’s and Eisenhower’s complex relationship with Bolivia’s Movimiento Nacionalista Revolucionario; and the Eisenhower administration’s overthrow of the Arbenz administration in Guatemala. He also recounts the experiences of populist leaders in Brazil...

... altered the outcome, but I think that the tone would have been different, and that such things as war trophies and, more importantly, the war reparations denied the Brazilians would have been handled differently. 24 The point I made in The Brazilian-American Alliance was simply that the Truman team...

... to the mass deportation (INS files on Operation Wetback, the Truman Library and National Archives). This book is primarily a description of the mass deportations of Mexican undocumented workers in 1954. García casts the deportation in the historical context of the Bracero Program, United States...

... of Truman’s and Eisenhower’s policies, Smith persuasively argues that these two leaders did not, as their critics charged, neglect Latin America. In other places, particularly in his coverage of United States programs from the Alliance for Progress to Carter’s human rights campaign, Smith’s frustration over...

... Truman’s “point four” proposal (January 20, 1949). Regarding the former, one finds the State Department unwilling to advise ratification of the Pact of Bogotá, partly because of faulty drafting but even more for substantive objections, especially to the article requiring automatic compulsory...

... American extension of territorial waters and sovereignty outward 200 miles, when this was a lonely position, was contrary to traditional law and to a more restrictive United States claim (the Truman Proclamation). Galindo Pohl argues that both terms can be defined logically and realistically from the Latin...

... those “still vital to national interests” (p. 174). Nevertheless, Latin Americans understood the affable man in the White House. When Roosevelt died, the Good Neighbor Policy passed away with him. Harry Truman, an “archetypical gringo” (p. 275), possessed none of the skills and sensitivities necessary...

... failed to receive an invitation to the Paris Reparations Conference in mid–1946. This prompted Dutra to write directly to President Harry Truman, recalling Brazil’s role during the war, and complaining that it was being excluded from “any share whatsoever in the division of Germany’s industrial...