Invasion and Intervention in the Caribbean Area

Task of coming Meeting on Caribbean Tension

Foreign ministers of the 21 American republics will face a task of exceptional difficulty when they meet at Santiago, Chile, August 12, to consider means of quieting the unrest that has been mounting in the region of the Caribbean Sea since Cuban revolutionists under Fidel Castro swept to power at the end of last year. The Council of the Organization of American States, which called the meeting by unanimous vote on July 13, said the situation in the Caribbean urgently required cooperative efforts for “greater realization of the objectives of peace and security, …exercise of representative government, and respect for human rights.” The problem will be to devise effective action to those ...