To Arms I

The new, vigorous U.S.-Latin American policy forged by Assistant Secretary of State Spruille Braden was spelled out by one of his appointees last week.

Addressing Philadelphia's Pan American Association, Ellis Briggs, director of the State Department's Office of American Republic Affairs, said that:

P: The U.S. still hopes to solve all Latin American problems through "collective action."

P: The U.S. proposes "to strengthen the Inter-American system."

P: The U.S. still upholds the hemispherically-tested doctrine of nonintervention. If But the U.S., when and wherever it chooses, will speak out against dictatorship and oppression. "The right of self-expression," said Briggs, "is as fundamental as the right of self-defense."

Briggs bluntly discarded the old Sumner Welles doctrine of unanimity of agreement between the American republics. This doctrine, said Briggs, "not infrequently resulted in whittling down principles to fit the lowest unanimous denominator." Briggs suggested that the American nations work on a majority basis, respecting but not kowtowing to minority views.

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