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...agonizing days of week before last, President Kennedy and Russia's Khrushchev exchanged many messages. Some of them have still to be made public (see cover), and in others there were some statements that went largely unnoticed in the U.S.'s enthusiasm over Khrushchev's backdown. Thus, Kennedy at one point declared that the U.S. would be willing to work out a deal that gave "assurances against an invasion of Cuba" -provided, of course, that the missiles were removed and inspectors were allowed to enter Cuba...
...little knowledge is a dangerous thing"; and that serious difficulties can be created when a public, which does not understand a particular situation or its relationship to the more general problems, starts urging the President to take dangerously radical steps, such as an invasion or a complete backdown...
Another Red backdown came on the "bourgeois" front. During the big drive to nationalize China's factories in 1956, their original owners were given monthly interest payments in return for "advice" on plant operation. The payments were scheduled to stop this year. Instead, Chou's program deems it necessary to "unite the patriotic elements of the national bourgeoisie" by prolonging the payments for another three years...
...flew westward, angry voices pursued him. At least for the moment, his backdown over Katanga had dented U.N. prestige in Africa. Both Guinea's Premier Sékou Touré and Ghana's President Kwame Nkrumah rushed out statements of support for Lumumba's Congo government, offered to mobilize their minuscule armed forces to help throw the Belgians out. "This," announced Touré, "is henceforth the responsibility of African soldiers." But the sharpest cut of all came from the weather-vane Congo government, whose Cabinet only a few hours earlier had voted full confidence in Dag. From...
...Protests. Its point made, the U.S. did a backdown of a sort, too. The Pentagon plan was to establish the pattern with several flights above 10,000 ft. But Britain's Foreign Secretary Selwyn Lloyd hove into his Washington meeting with Acting Secretary of State Christian Herter heatedly protesting that the flights might cause dangerous incidents in the touchy Berlin situation.* Although West Germany, France and Britain (but apparently not Lloyd) had been duly notified in advance of the 25,000-ft. flight, Herter promised to call off further flights until the two could sit down and talk...