Word: cuba
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Stone last night condemned the Kennedy Administration's policy toward Cuba, calling instead for a policy which would leave Cuba an alternative to economic dependence on the Soviet bloc...
Speaking at Stebbins Auditorium in Cambridge, Stone attacked the imposition of economic and diplomatic sanctions against Cuba as a violation of the Charter of Bogota, the agreement which organized the OAS. Chapters 15 and 16 of the Charter forbid the use of economic sanctions or other coercive measures by one American state against another for any reason...
Stone was violently critical of Kennedy's policies toward Castro, stating that during his campaign Kennedy had "talked like a vulgar rich man out of Palm Beach" and accusing Adlal Stevenson, American Ambassador in the U.N., of "making stupid speeches on Communist China and telling lies about Cuba...
With a good deal of unwarranted confidence Mr. Rusk sailed into Punta del Este asking that the O.A.S. invoke diplomatic and economic sanctions against Cuba; we must keep the hemisphere pure, he said, the Alliance depends on it. By the time the most important O.A.S. members made it perfectly clear that they could not follow Mr. Rusk's logic, that they could not, in fact, see that sending coffee and Ambassadors to Cuba would injure the Alliance, Mr. Rusk's efforts shifted direction. To his credit, he persuaded Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Bolivia, Ecuador, and Mexico to abstain from his resolution...
...Rusk's attempt, in short, to make an enormous, formal, issue of Cuba's role in the O.A.S. shows all too well how bureaucrats will behave when there is no substantive definition of policy behind them. The Alliance has started slowly and jerkily as it is, and surely the Administration realises how fragile and tenuous an instrument of progress it must be. By diverting attention from the goals of the first conference to the irrelevant questions of the second, the U.S. has dealt the Alliance a bad blow in its weakest moments. This was to be an era of liberal...