Alliance for Progress?

At first, there seemed to be two Alliances for Progress: One, resounding and rhetorical (see above); the other, more limited and practical, with realistic aims which anyone could decently, if critically, support. Now—October 1962—here seems to be no Alliance for Progress. An Administration already noted for the gap between its words and deeds seems to have committed an even greater blunder—inflating and launching a balloon that failed to rise from the ground. It is understandable that on the first anniversary of the Alliance for Progress instructions went out from top administrator Moscoso not to celebrate but to—meditate.

On the surface, the status of the Alliance for Progress program does not look quite as bad as we sugg...