1. The Liberal Test in El Salvador.
- Author
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Kemble, Penn
- Subjects
LIBERALISM ,COUPS d'etat ,LAND reform ,INTERNATIONAL relations ,COMMUNISM ,PUBLIC welfare ,SOCIAL history - Abstract
Presents information on the importance of El Salvador that represents a test for American liberals. View that the test is for U.S. President Ronald Reagan to show that it is politically correct to promote reforms that will deny the communists the internal support to help them; Report that land reform has been accompanied by tight banking and export controls which have prevented landowners from stripping the country of capital and equipment; Announcement that the U.S., with its long tradition of democratic change, recognizes and supports the need for democratic change in El Salvador; Fact that insurgency in El Salvador is dominated by Communists; Argument that the insurrection was not justified in the eyes of the church because it is not clear that the consequences of the establishment of a new government of a socialist type will be an improvement over the system which the current government is attempting to promote; Demand of El Salvador's junta for free elections; Statement that a liberal policy of modest military assistance, support for land reform, and support for free elections, matched by active restraint of the violent right-could help save El Salvador.
- Published
- 1981