Word: cuba
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Herbert Matthews' talk stimulated me to think a little about our policy towards Cuba...
...point of view is that of a person who dislikes Communism intensely as an anti-liberal perversion of social unrest and of a person who believes that enlightened American private enterprise has a creative role to play in Latin America. My conclusion is that our policy towards Cuba is stupid...
Then in the middle of the campaign Cuba happened. If Hughes had spoken personally to everybody in the state he couldn't have made the population more aware of the possibility of nuclear war. The only trouble was, no matter how concerned people became, they couldn't do a thing about it. The feeling of importance, which crept into the consciousness of the Washington marchers and was pushed aside, gripped the entire population, peaceniks included. Hughes writes of that time: "my support appeared to be melting away. A manic-depressive cycle seized a number of my co-workers...
...article Hughes gives the opinion that the Cuba incident might have cut his vote in half. He adds "What to my mind it did rather more was to underline a cruel truth which had been present from the start but to which my friends and I had refused to pay attention. Even in its best days my campaign had had an air of unreality." But Hughes never explicitly says why his campaign had this sense of unreality. He implies it was because people will not vote for a candidate with no chance to win. I think that is only part...
Perhaps in the aftermath of Cuba, as the hard truth about the conduct of foreign affairs in this world is squarely faced, American radicalism might re-discover a traditional but recently neglected area of concern. This is not to say radicals should abandon their role as public critics in the field of foreign policy; but it is to say their talents, both as chastisers of the established and creators of the new, are also needed elsewhere