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...outspokenness regarded as unwarranted interference in internal affairs. For months the U.S. had suffered in relative silence while Fidel Castro's Cuban government made a mockery of personal legal rights, suppressed newspapers, confiscated property and howled at the U.S. such epithets as "bandit, hypocrite, imperialist beast and thief." Secretary Herter gave the Cuban chargé d'affaires a good dressing down for the direct insults, but it was President Eisenhower who, after long restraint, finally passed public judgment on internal Cuban affairs. Writing to Chilean students who had asked about U.S.-Cuban policy, Ike said: "The idea...
...Kremlin dinner, Nikita Khrushchev cried that Russia would abandon Communism "when the shrimp learns to whistle." Wagging a finger at Indians in Bangalore, Nikita warned that each beast has its own food: "You cannot force the buffalo to eat meat; the tiger cannot be made to eat grass." To labor leaders in London he explained the Soviet opposition to nuclear inspection teams: "We don't want people walking into our bedrooms...
...Queen turned crimson with fury, and, after glaring at her for a moment like a wild beast, began screaming: "Off -with her head! Off-" "Nonsense!" said Alice, very loudly and decidedly, and the Queen was silent...
...Imperialist beast. Bandit, hypocrite, thief!" screamed the radios in Fidel Castro's Cuba, denouncing the U.S. "The U.S. wants to prepare public opinion for military action," raved Revolution, Castro's mouthpiece paper, "the same technique as the Alamo in 1836, the Maine in 1898, the Lusitania in 1915." Said Cuba's Prime Minister himself: "Those who committed this sabotage are those who were interested in our not getting these arms-officials of the United States Government...
...whose once very human blood has turned to bile, and from bile to venom, would have the impossible: he would dispense with love, reason, friendship-every bond uniting humanity. He would as passionately destroy as other men create, would claim to be a god that he might act the beast...