Word: cuba
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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With his guns and his Communist advisers, Fidel Castro had never looked stronger. It would be a long time before Cubans, either inside or outside the island, could mount a serious threat to his dictatorship. What would be done about him now became the problem of Cuba's neighbors in the hemisphere...
...Bless America." Still, in the second look, Castro's surprising military strength and brutal police-state repression had alerted Latin America as no Yankee warnings could. In Argentina and Uruguay, anti-Castro rallies were almost as numerous as the more publicized mobs yowling "Cuba Si-Yanki No." In the depressed northern Brazil town of Caruarú, hundreds of students, singing "God bless America, land that I love" in bad but valiant English, broke up a Communist rally with rotten eggs, mushy fruit, firecrackers and fists. In their public and private statements, government officials showed chill concern over the four...
Joint Action. A growing sense of common danger from Castro convinced little Honduras that it should sever relations with Cuba and call for an emergency session of Caribbean foreign ministers to consider the Castro threat. Uruguay seemed ready to break off relations, too, which would make ten hemisphere nations in all. In Washington, the nonpolitical Inter-American Defense Board voted 121, with two abstentions, to bar the Cuban representative from its meetings, and the U.S. State Department held long conferences with the ambassadors of all Latin American nations...
...Sulzberger in the New York Times, "look like fools to our friends, rascals to our enemies and incompetents to the rest." The Times's Washington Bureau Chief James Reston was equally embarrassed: "For the first time in his life, John F. Kennedy has taken a public licking. Cuba was a clumsy and humiliating one, which makes it worse." The New York Post's Max Lerner wallowed in despair: "Love is never enough when pitted against death in an unequal struggle." In the New York Daily News, Ted Lewis sounded almost grateful that "a little of the self-assurance...
Readily Available. But the Charleston News and Courier sighted in on far bigger game: "Not much time remains for the education of John F. Kennedy. In his first great crisis, he bungled horribly." The Chicago Tribune, while joining the general applause for Kennedy's forceful statement on Cuba before a meeting of newspaper editors in Washington, suggested that the time had come for presidential action to speak louder than presidential words. Kennedy's speech, said the Tribune, "did not answer the questions which arise from his statement that the climax in the struggle against Communism would come...