Word: cuba
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Last week the New York Times published an advertisement signed by 70 Faculty members protesting the "present drift" of the United States Government's policy toward Cuba. The statement has received wide coverage in the national press and in Latin American newspapers; it has inspired a series of four articles in the Boston American, moderately disapproving editorials in the Boston Globe and the Christian Science Monitor, and columns by Arthur Krock (who disapproved) and Max Lerner (who was interested in the dissatisfaction of "young intellectuals"). It has moved a considerable number of persons to write letters of counter-protest...
Even less of weight will come out of the Vienna summit conference. Almost anyone can predict what the agenda of the meetings will be. And nearly no one at this point expects any real Russian or American changes of heart on Berlin, Laos, Cuba, or even disarmament...
Disaster in Cuba, irresolution in Laos, and humiliation in space-one after another the blows landed, and even such Kennedy enthusiasts as Columnist Walter Lippmann winced as they found flaws in their onetime hero; the background editorial music, so bright and lilting at inauguration time, turned dissonant and harsh. Columnist Doris Fleeson, a onetime Stevensonian who had been willing enough to cheer for the President, now decided that "golden boy" had responded to adversity with "something less than the grace expected...
...wormwood spilled over: "President Kennedy is in grave trouble. If, after the appalling mistake of judgment in the Cuban venture, he allows himself to be sucked into the quicksands of Laos, he will have compromised, perhaps irrevocably, his influence on events." For the architects of failure in Cuba, Lippmann hotly demanded expulsion ("The mistake can be purged and confidence can be restored only by the resignation of the key figures who had the primary responsibility"), and fingered the culprits: "Bissell and Dulles of the CIA, Lemnitzer and Burke of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and Berle of the State Department...
...that Kennedy had at last given them cause to howl. In Chicago, the conservative Tribune reprinted a few Kennedy campaign promises-"I am not satisfied to be second to outer space," "I am not satisfied to have the deadly hand of Communism extend to our former good neighbor in Cuba"-and found those promises "very empty." Detroit's Republican-leaning Free Press pasted the President with scorn: "President Kennedy by his words and actions conveys the idea that he sits with his finger resting against the panic button and doesn't quite know how to draw it away...