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...millionaire Republican golfing pal of Jack Kennedy and Father Joe. Swiss Ambassador Auguste R. Lindt huddled with Under Secretary of State Chester Bowles to discuss the Smith appointment. Swiss authorities pointed out the technicalities that 1) Smith has done little to disguise his fondness for deposed Cuban Dictator Fulgencio Batista, and 2) Switzerland represents U.S. interests to the government of current Cuban Dictator Fidel Castro. While inspired Swiss newspaper editorials denounced the Smith appointment, and the Swiss cabinet resolved to "wait and see what will happen in Washington," John Kennedy was standing firm...
...their first few months in the Escambray, the anti-Castro rebels did virtually nothing but lie low. As more and more ex-Castro officers appeared, the senior men took command. Today Captain Evelio Duque, a veteran of Castro's Sierra Maestra fight against former Cuban Dictator Fulgencio Batista, is the rebels' nominal chief. In fact, the Escambray guerrillas are still divided into half a dozen forces with only loose coordination, but since last October they have been getting arms in speedboat forays and airdrops organized by Cuban refugee groups in Miami...
...Swiss have made it clear that they are less than pleased. Financier, sportsman, onetime member of the Republican national finance committee, Palm Beach neighbor and old friend of Jack and Jackie Kennedy. Smith was Ambassador to Cuba from 1957 to 1959. An ardent supporter of ex-Strongman Fulgencio Batista, Smith early recognized Fidel Castro as a pro-Communist fanatic but underestimated the strength and public support of Castro's rebel band-an oversight that helped fan the smoldering embers of Cuba's anti-Americanism. Smith left Yale after two years, married Consuelo Vanderbilt in 1926. Twice divorced (second...
...with Soviet-bloc guns-have not been able to rout the rebels out of their rocky, cave-pitted hillsides in the Escambray mountains 170 miles east of Havana. The fighting is small-scale but so bitter that militia units are losing their taste for the chase. Castro, like Batista before him, has resorted to promising common criminals their freedom if they will fight. For the rebels, help from the outside increases: the Escambray has received much of the 40 tons of opposition arms airdropped into Cuba; small groups of well-trained, night-wise guerrillas have been landed to reinforce...
...refused to recognize Red China, and withdraws an embassy from Cuba, because it does not approve the routes these governments followed in gaining power. The State Department speaks of diplomatic liaisons as Seals of Approval granted only to well-behaved foreigners. Yet Chiang and Franco, and until recently Batista, Rhee, and Peron, gobble up dollars and throw their oppositions into jail without trial--or worse...