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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 22 May 2009
The present critical stage of inter-American relations offers a timely occasion for an inquiring glance at the Organization of American States (OAS). For more than half a century—and particularly during the last two decades—the United States has increasingly adapted its policy toward Latin America to the principles and procedures of the Organization of American States, confident that such an approach would best serve our long-range objectives in the hemisphere. Yet the varying responses which the United States has gained from the regional agency when problems of high importance have been submitted to it constitute one of the most confusing aspects of our hemisphere relations. The last few years have provided a striking illustration of this point.
page 37 note 1 See statement by John Foster Dulles on May 8, 1956, in Department of State Bulletin, May 21, 1956 (Vol. 34, No. 882), p. 835, and by Dwight D. Eisenhower at Panama, July 22, 1956, published in Department of State Bulletin, 08 6, 1956 (Vol. 35, No. 893), p. 219Google ScholarPubMed.
page 39 note 2 Speech before the Latin American diplomatic corps, March 13, 1961. Department of State Bulletin, 04 3, 1961 (Vol. 44, No. 1136), p. 471Google ScholarPubMed. See also the preamble to the “Charter of Punta del Este” adopted by the Extraordinary Meeting of the Inter-American Economic and Social Council, August 17, 1961, for a recent inter-American expression of the same thought.
page 39 note 3 See, for example, Robledo, Antonio Gomez, Idea y Experiencia dc América (Mexico City: Fondo de Cultura Económica, 1958)Google Scholar.
page 40 note 4 Whitaker, Arthur P., The Western Hemisphere Idea (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1954), p. 74Google Scholar.
page 40 note 5 The story is fully told by Samuel Flagg Bemis in his Latin American Policy of the United States (New York: Harcourt, Brace and Co., 1943)Google ScholarPubMed.
page 41 note 6 Resolution IX of the Inter-American Conference on Problems of War and Peace stipulated that I the then Governing Board of the Pan American Union should “take action … on every matter that affects the effective functioning of the Inter-American System and the solidarity and general welfare of the American Republics.”
page 45 note 7 See, for example, Taylor, Philip B. Jr, ‘The Guatemala Affair” in American Political Science Review, 03 1956 (Vol. 50, No. 1), p. 3Google Scholar.
page 50 note 8 For an interesting discussion of this point, see Ronning, C. Neale, “Intervention, International Law, and the Inter-American System,” in Journal of Inter-American Studies, 04 1961 (Vol. 3, No. 2), p. 249CrossRefGoogle Scholar.
page 51 note 9 Resolution VI, Eighth Meeting of Consultation of Ministers of Foreign Affairs.
page 52 note 10 Burr, Robert H. and Hussey, Roland D., Documents on Inter-American Cooperation (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press), Vol. I, p. 60Google Scholar.
page 52 note 11 Ibid., p. 106.
page 52 note 12 Resolution VI, op. at., paragraphs 3, 4.
