It might be added that these officials remained adamant even though the suggestion was approved by the Cenatros board of directors. which includes some of the most distiguished Venezuelan citizens and resident Americans. Nor can the North American Association or the American Chamber of Commerce show a better record. The American Church (interdenominational). although a powerful moral force in the Englishspeaking colony and a somewhat desultory purveyor of old clothing to needy immigrants. cannot honestly say that it made a concerted effort to help even the poor in the creek bottom immediately behind the church. And so it is that the very sincere American effort to make friends abroad ends only in something akin to incestin an appeal not to the poor and untouched but to the rich who are already related to us by family ties of wealth and intellect. Is this not the secret to our failure abroad and to the success of the Communists?
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