The Latin American in Wartime United States

NO OTHER -group of aliens in our midst presents a dichotomy so marked as the heterogeneous population loosely labeled Latin Americans. On the one hand, we have a number of students benefiting by sometimes very liberal scholarships, aided by government as well as private institutions to an extent never equaled by Europeans; at a still higher level there are the distinguished visitors invited with 6clat by the Department of State, the Office of the Coordinator of Inter-American Affairs, or other bodies, to whom all doors are opened, who are lionized to an extent which may interfere with the accomplishment of any serious objectives they may have had in accepting Uncle Sam's hospitality. On the other hand, our immigrant Latin Americans, the Cubans of Florida, the Puerto Ricans of New York, and in vastly greater numbers the Mexicans of the southwest, whether they be newly arrived or descendants of older Spanish-speaking settlers, are a submerged, isolated, or forgotten population, whose presence is felt as a weight, a problem, an annoy

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