based on S.I.I. report
The British Labour Party is virtually alone among the parties of the Socialist International in supporting the U.S. over their intervention in the Dominican Republic. The Chariman and Secretary of the International, Bruno Pittermann and Albert Carthy, issued a statement on May 12th in which they said: "“Socialis# everywhere are disturbed at the chain of events in the Dominican Republic since the rising on April 24 which sought to restore the constitutionally elected President, Juan Bosch....The Socialist Intern~ ational believes that the Government headed by Juan Bosch had the will and the capacity to cope with the problems left behind by dictatorship.....It does not beleive that the allegation of the presence of Communism justifies the distortion of that process....."
The presidents of Venezeula and Chile issued a statement on May ist denouncing the U.S. landing as an invasion. Venezuela's governing party is in the Socialist International. Other member parties of the Socialist International in Latin America, including the Argentine Socialist Party, Apra of Peru, the P.L.N. of Costa Rica, and others have expressed strong opposition to the U.S. intervention. The Socialist Party of the U.S.A. stated the American action was a violation of the charters of the eU.N.O. and the 0.A.S., and urged "Socialists and other defenders of democracy throughout the world to protest.."
Claude Fuzier, the editor of Le Populaire, official journal of the French Socialist Party, wrote in an editorial on May 5th: "Johnson's intervention...is an abandonment of the spirit of Kennedyism...." Henri Dusant, wrote in the same issue: "Johnson's policy is no more than the 'big stick! policy so dear to Theodore Roosevelt..." An article in Vorwaerts, the official weekly of the German Social Democratic Party, commented, on May 5th, ",..eNeither the U.S. excuse of protecting their nationals nor of preventing a Communist takeover hold much water..." Arbeiderbladet, the official daily paper of the Norwegian Labour Party: "....eOne had thought that the use of marines as an instrument of U.S. policy in Latin America was a closed chapter eeee At a press conference on May 11, the Norwegian Foreign Minister, Halverd Lange, said: "The Norwegian Government shares the disquiet expressed recently in the Norwegian press about the American action in the Dominican Republics..."
Stockholm-Tidningen, the official daily paper of the Swedish Social Democratic Party, said in an editorial on May 4th: "..American policy...is a policy which reacts automatically, or rather compulsively, to the shadow of suspicion that another Cuba could arise in the vicinity of the U.S.A. It is an old-time power and prestige policy...." Aktuelt, the official daily paper of the Danish Social Democratic Party, said in an editorial on May 4th, that U.S. military intervention "...ensured victory to a Rightorientated junta just when things were pointing to its losing ground..." Arbeiter-Zeitung, the official paper of the Austrian Socialist Part » carried an article by the paper's foreign editor on May 4th, in which he said: "..it is not for President Johnson's advisors to arbitrarily decide who is a Communist and who is a Democrat..." ‘Writing in the official organ of the Italian Social Democratic Party, Socialismo Democratico, its editor said: ",eeall too often has the United States been in situations where it has supported petty reactionary politicians against reformers..."' Victor Larock, former Foreign Minister of Belgium, wrote in Le Peuple, the official paper of the Belgian Socialist Party, on May llth: "It is clear that in the U.S. anti-Communism implies the same aggressive rejection, almost to the point of frenzy, of everything that is 'Socialist', 'radical', ‘liberal! i
eee @ Even Luxemburg's Social Democrat party expressed similar sentiments,