The Choice for the Americas.

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  • Author(s): Corey, Lewis
  • Source:
    Nation. 1/4/1941, Vol. 152 Issue 1, p8-11. 4p.
  • Additional Information
    • Subject Terms:
      INTERNATIONAL relations; INTERNATIONAL alliances; FASCISM; WAR; HITLER, Adolf, 1889-1945
    • Subject Terms:
      LATIN America; GERMANYReport Available
    • Abstract:
      As Germany multiplies its activities in Latin America and the "New Europe" begins to take shape, the need for hemisphere defense becomes increasingly clear. At the same time it becomes clear that this defense cannot be limited to military alliances and naval and air bases. Adolf Hitler wages social and economic as well as military war, and there is always the danger that economic pressures in Latin America may break open the floodgates of fascism. The basis of hemisphere defense must be economic cooperation. All this was recognized at the Havana conference. Although its economic decisions have been criticized as "disappointingly vague" they formulated the right problems and moved in the right directions.