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...current crisis in Southeast Asia has been perfectly predict able for many months. When President Kennedy took office, Communist troops in Laos were already on the offensive. Hardly anyone seemed to care. Laos assuredly was a kooky kind of country, economically, politically and socially. But militarily it was a dagger thrust into Southeast Asia -it flanked South Viet Nam on the west and Thailand on the east...
...deployed in Southeast Asia for all the world to see and note. In domestic considerations, there could no longer be any realistic talk about a Southeast Asia crisis inherited from the Eisenhower Administration. The decision, the tactics, the policy-all were John Kennedy's. Laos is still a dagger in the guts of Southeast Asia. But the presumption is that the presence of U.S. troops means that the U.S. intends to hold the line, prevent any further Communist incursions by force if necessary. As to whether or not the Communist tide can be rolled back, that will have...
...Communist friends, Rumania and Czechoslovakia, offered a resolution appealing for an end to U.S. "interference in the internal affairs" of Cuba. "Uncle Sam,'' cried the Cuban delegate, "took his trip to Punta del Este carrying a bag of gold in one hand and a bloody dagger in the other." Apparently, the Reds hoped to draw anti-U.S. support from the Afro-Asian bloc. But the Afro-Asians seemed to regard it all as an inter-American quarrel. Brazil, speaking as a member of the so-called "soft six" at Punta del Este, told the U.N. that Cuban...
...more Roman Catholic had still to be heard from: New York's Francis Cardinal Spellman. He immediately called Kennedy's program "a dagger threatening our very existence." In a speech to 1,500 teaching nuns, brothers and lay teachers, Spellman said: "If the Federal Government should favor the public schools and put an additional tax on us, from which we would receive no benefit, then, my dear friends, it is the eventual end of our parochial schools...
...CLOAK & DAGGER...