Word: fidelity
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...hear the Kennedy Administration tell it. it was all out of the goodness of the American citizens' heart. Except for the sentimental support of such as Jack and Bobby Kennedy, the U.S. Government was playing no part whatever in the deal to pay ransom to Cuba's Fidel Castro...
...Fidel Castro is uncharacteristically silent these days. So is little brother Raul. But it is hard to keep them all quiet in Cuba's talky regime. To a correspondent from the London Daily Worker, Minister of Industries Ernesto ("Che") Guevara, who was Castro's one-man braintrust back in the hills, last week gave an interview defiantly proclaiming Cuba's firm intention to go right on trying to export its revolution throughout Latin America. What is more, said Che, "if the rockets had remained, we would have used them all and directed them against the very heart...
...Pique. Hours before that deadline came the first hint of a Russian backdown. Fidel Castro sent a letter to the U.N.'s Acting Secretary-General U Thant withdrawing his objections to the removal of the bombers from Cuba; they were, he said in a characteristic fit of pique, old and inferior aircraft anyhow. Kennedy paid no public attention to Castro's message. He was still waiting for word from the Kremlin, and it came shortly after noon on the day of the press conference...
...Fidel Castro has now been burdened and disgraced by the Soviet Union. His speeches have shown the strain of a man who senses the incompatibility of Cuban and Soviet objectives. But the U.S. has not allowed him to say, as Tito could eventually, "We do not want to pay other people's bills.... Never again will we be dependent on anybody...
...long as he has no alternative to Soviet support, Fidel Castro's course is determined. We will never know, to use George Kennan's metaphor, whether Castro will go through an open door until we stop trying to push him through a closed...