The Hemisphere: Triumph in Bogota

A dozen years after George Marshall went to Bogota and bluntly told the U.S.'s Latin American neighbors that as compared to Europe they had no priority for U.S. aid, the U.S. last week returned to the same city and picked up the pieces. On this occasion, the third meeting of the two-year-old Committee of 21 on economic development, Washington sent its best delegation in Latin American memory, headed by Under Secretary of State Douglas Dillon, who brought along the new $500 million Eisenhower plan.

The meeting opened against a background of Castro-incited unrest, as...