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BACKING. The President, at his televised press conference, laid special emphasis on an announcement that "we have today recognized the government of El Salvador." Implicit in his announcement was a caution to the new junta, dominated by El Salvador's legendary "14 families," whose indifference to the nation's poor has been conspicuous even by Latin American standards. The junta, said Kennedy pointedly, "has announced its determination to bring about free and democratic elections in that country, and it seeks solutions for the economic and social difficulties . . . We hope to be able to assist El Salvador in reaching...
...week's end a lot of snow still clothed capital lawns, but John Kennedy's stimulation was already at work in some areas. He acted with increasing confidence in home-front politics and economics. But in foreign affairs the Kennedy Administration moved with growing caution and uncertainty as it became aware of the wheels within wheels of foreign-policy-making. Among last week's mileposts...
FOREIGN POLICY. Secretary of State Dean Rusk, in his press-conference debut, reflected his boss's new caution in foreign affairs by turning back virtually all questions with the grey answer that the matter was "under study." Clearly, Kennedy was treading water while he found his own personal bearings. One top-rung State Department adviser 'backgrounded' reporters on the news that the U.S. had asked the Soviet Union to leave crucial East-West issues alone while the new Administration re-examined policy, or expect the toughest possible response to crisis. (To such nonsense, Moscow backgrounded a predictable...
...Paris, Bourguiba will presumably caution De Gaulle to give some sort of recognition to the F.L.N. as a disciplined and worthy opponent-perhaps through a private meeting with the F.L.N.'s Ferhat Abbas, where assurances can be exchanged. What the moment calls for is someone skillful enough to smooth the initial approach between France and the F.L.N. rebels it has fought for six long years. Dapper, quick-witted Habib Bourguiba may be just...
...nation and the world. When it comes to remedies, he is less persuasive. The specifics of his program remain to be tested in the congressional fires." Grumbled the Chicago Tribune: "Less an exercise in statesmanship than in public relations." And the Wall Street Journal added a bit of caution: "When Franklin Roosevelt took office he told the nation there was nothing to fear but fear itself. There were moments when we thought President Kennedy was trying to scare the nation out of its wits. We would feel more reassured if we were sure that this Administration, in its haste...