Word: einaudi
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Faculty opinion was mixed on the wisdom of yesterday's severance of diplomatic relations with Cuba. John N. Plank '45, instructor in Government, termed President Eisenhower's move "a pretty legitimate thing to do," while Luigi R. Einaudi and Nadav Safran, instructors in Government, criticized the Administration's decision...
...seem to be basing our policy on some effuse concept of national dignity," Einaudi criticized. If Castro has been seeking the breaking of diplomatic relations, he commented, "I see no reason to react with a policy that does just what he wanted us to do in the first place...
Eisenhower's reference to the "historic friendship" between Cuba and the United States was ill-advised, Einaudi felt, since "it is the historic situation between the two countries that Castro has been attacking...
...Einaudi and Safran, both members of the "Fair Play for Cuba" committee, felt that Eisenhower's move would handicap Kennedy. "Eisenhower should have held the line for at least sixteen days," Einaudi commented. Safran maintained that the move would tie Kennedy's hands and was therefore "unforgivable" at this time...
...Luigi R. Einaudi '57, teaching fellow in Government, warned that failure by the United States to completely divorce itself from any invasion of Cuba, could in the future, involve the U.S. against its will in an armed conflict. He espoused the Liberal Union's view that the U.S. should "open the channel of negotiation," and begin by discussing the fate of the Guantanamo Bay naval base. Bundy declared this topic was not a good one, and that the current state of affairs made the present a "poor time" for debate...