Word: cuba
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Last week two Harvard professors, Oscar Handlin and H. Stuart Hughes were kind enough to come to Brandeis as guests of the university and express their views on two explosive issues: the Elchmann case (Handlin), and American policy on Cuba (Hughes...
...convinced Russia looks on Cuba as a Communist country or Castro as a credit to Communism," Goldwater commented...
...Latin America doesn't want Communism in Cuba," the Senator said. In Latin America, he claimed, "respect for the United States has slipped decidedly," but could be regained through intervention in Cuba...
Since he never specified just what sort of abuses he was talking about, Kennedy left the newspapers free to speculate that he was blaming the Cuban fiasco on their indiscretions. Actually, of course, the American press has accorded the government very handsome treatment on Cuba: since December, Fidel Castro has been charging the United States with attack preparations, the Russians were writing of our rebel training sites, and the French press has been discussing the impending invasion. The only group in the world ignorant of American government activities in Guatemala and Florida has been the American public, which was told...
...applications of words like "crisis," "unity," "national interest," and "discipline," one appreciates how void of content so much of the New Frontier's rhetoric is, how open to interpretation dictated by circumstance. National interest would have been served better if the press had explained what was happening in Cuba--and if the government had not been so sure of its support. Kennedy is equating bipartisanship and achieving a united front with the formulation of foreign policy, an equation that did much to make the Eisenhower era such a blandly unroductive one. He does not see the danger in this country...