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...tirelessly told itself that the Commu nist challenge must be met by providing an equal or better promise of a decent life, by finding enlightened non-Commu nist leadership, and creating stable non-Communist societies along the periphery of China. In some countries this has at least partly worked. But what if non-Communist governments were to col lapse, giving way to Communist or neutralist regimes without a single Chinese soldier crossing a frontier? Obviously, the only U.S. choice then would be to pull out or to fight. What would the answer be? One psychological difficulty faced...
...historic offer in 1947 to extend massive U.S. aid to help rebuild the shattered economies of friend and foe alike, the prostrate Soviet-occupied states of Eastern Europe responded with enthusiasm. But before their delegations could pack their scuffed suitcases and head West, Moscow thundered its veto of Commu nist participation in the Marshall Plan. Last week, in Conference Room 1105A of the State Department, a Rumanian delegation was finally able to accept, if not the 17-year-old offer, at least a latterday, more commercial version...
...went into exile, first in the U.S., then in France, where he became a convinced and highly disciplined Communist. Returning to Latin America in the 1920s, Machado helped found the Communist Party in Cuba, carried cash and medicines to guerrilla fighters in Nicaragua, worked with the Venezuelan Commu nist Party from exile on the Dutch island of Curacao. Eventually he kidnaped the Governor of Curasao, commandeered an American ship, and invaded his homeland...
Obvious agents and big-name Communists are relatively easy to track. Francisco Juliao, leader of Brazil's troublemaking Peasant Leagues, was in Cuba last month; so was Brazilian Communist Boss Luis Carlos Prestes. When he was ar rested last October, Venezuelan Commu nist Fabricio Ojeda had been logged into Cuba 13 times, so often that he was nicknamed "Lieutenant Hilton." for the suite he occupied in Havana's expropriated Hilton hotel...
...Monroe Doctrine, does not demand any U.S. intervention. That view was affirmed once more in Secretary of State Dean Rusk's testimony before a joint closed-door session of the Senate Foreign Relations and Armed Services committees. Rusk argued against a U.S. blockade to halt the flow of Commu nist arms to Cuba, or any kind of unilateral U.S. action to deal with Castro. "It is not possible any longer for the U.S. to act strictly in unilateral terms," said Rusk. "We are engaged nose to nose with the Soviet Union right around the globe. It is almost inconceivable...