Word: cuba
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Compelling Task. Persuading Latin American governments to abandon that taboo and recognize that intervention in Cuba is necessary to the peace and safety of the Hemisphere is the Administration's most compelling diplomatic task in Latin America. Last week State Department officials in Washington and U.S. envoys all over the Hemisphere were urging upon Latin American leaders the need for an inter-American conference to draw up new rules that will enable the Hemisphere to cope with Communist subversion and rebellion...
...more than possible that too few Latin American leaders will agree. If so, the U.S. may have to fall back upon unilateral action under the Monroe Doctrine. President Kennedy recognized that point in his speech on Cuba shortly after the Bay of Pigs invasion. "Should it ever appear," he said, "that the inter-American doctrine of noninterference merely conceals or excuses a policy of nonaction; if the nations of this Hemisphere should fail to meet their commitments against outside Communist penetration, then I want it clearly understood that this Government will not hesitate in meeting its primary obligations, which...
...platform, beginning a four-day series of speeches in four states. His first talk, before Chicago's Executives' Club, was one of the most eloquent and effective of Nixon's political life, staking out a. badly needed Republican foreign policy position relative to the messes in Cuba and Laos. Excerpts...
Prepared to Finish. "We must become accustomed to living in a time of crisis. The forces of Communism are determined to conquer the entire world. Our problem this week is Laos. Last week it was Cuba. Next week it may well be some place else. Some political commentators have suggested that President Kennedy cannot risk action which might involve a commitment of American forces be cause of the fear of criticism for being another Democratic war President. I can think of nothing more detrimental to our national interest. That is why I gave to President Kennedy the assurance that...
...deeds must match our words. We must never talk bigger than we are prepared to act. When our words are strong and our actions are timid, we end up appearing aggressive and weak at the same time. We cannot wish away the problem by brushing off nations like Cuba and Laos as 'unimportant peripheral areas.' If the smaller nations get the idea that we don't consider them important enough to fight for and that the Communists do, they will go down the Communist line like a row of dominoes...