Word: cuba
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...step with its Allies-but basically its position is firm. Any Red move to take over Berlin or cut off Western access, whether done abruptly or gradually, will almost certainly mean war with the U.S. The American determination to fight for Berlin carries even greater conviction after Cuba...
From Paris, Acheson moved on to Bonn, where crusty old Chancellor Konrad Adenauer at first suspected that Kennedy's noise about Cuba had more to do with the election than with the progress of the cold war with Russia, and he rather liked the idea; it was the kind of thing that the old man might have done himself. Defense Minister Franz Josef Strauss took a different view, worriedly foresaw a cynical deal trading off bases between the U.S. and Russia, which would weaken his own long-range goal to obtain nuclear missiles for West Germany. With Strauss, Adenauer...
...West European most pained by the Cuban crisis was Italy's Premier Amintore Fanfani. whose political alliance with Pietro Nenni's Socialists is already strained by membership in NATO, which Nenni dislikes. To get involved in Cuba could be death to his center-left coalition regime; so Fanfani confined his comments on the U.S. action to such safe words as, "Italy judges as positive that, in a moment when loud alarms are sounded, the U.S. has requested the United Nations to intervene in order that the causes of this alarm might be eliminated...
...facts: the President's speech, the proclamation of the blockade, the U.S. military preparations under way at Key West. Moscow even let it be known that a Russian chartered freighter was boarded and searched by the U.S. Only one detail was never mentioned: the Russian missiles in Cuba...
...American ruling quarters are acting like cowardly beasts . . . The imperialist aggressors must remember that if they try to fan the fire of world war, they will inevitably burn in its flames." At that, endless resolutions from factories and collective farms poured in to Moscow sympathizing with poor little Cuba. A Moscow circus staged a "Cuban Carnival" in which Russians disguised as Cubans danced wildly to Latin music and raced about with beards and burp guns in pursuit of counterrevolutionaries...