Word: fidelity
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...Lindt huddled with Under Secretary of State Chester Bowles to discuss the Smith appointment. Swiss authorities pointed out the technicalities that 1) Smith has done little to disguise his fondness for deposed Cuban Dictator Fulgencio Batista, and 2) Switzerland represents U.S. interests to the government of current Cuban Dictator Fidel Castro. While inspired Swiss newspaper editorials denounced the Smith appointment, and the Swiss cabinet resolved to "wait and see what will happen in Washington," John Kennedy was standing firm...
...hundred miles southwest of Havana in south central Cuba lies the Sierra Escambray, an area of precipitous hills pocked with large caves and dominated by two 3,000-ft. peaks. The Escambray is fine country to hide in. Since May 1960, when the first anti-Communist defectors from Fidel Castro's army took refuge there, the number of guerrillas fighting Castro from the Escambray has swelled to some 1 ,000 men. By last week whispered tales seeping out of Cuba told of pitched, no quarter battles in the Escambray and of hospitals overflowing with wounded. The reality...
...clear that they are less than pleased. Financier, sportsman, onetime member of the Republican national finance committee, Palm Beach neighbor and old friend of Jack and Jackie Kennedy. Smith was Ambassador to Cuba from 1957 to 1959. An ardent supporter of ex-Strongman Fulgencio Batista, Smith early recognized Fidel Castro as a pro-Communist fanatic but underestimated the strength and public support of Castro's rebel band-an oversight that helped fan the smoldering embers of Cuba's anti-Americanism. Smith left Yale after two years, married Consuelo Vanderbilt in 1926. Twice divorced (second wife was Mimi Elaine...
...sympathetic view of revolutionary movements that have the legitimate objective of bettering the life of the hemisphere's poor and downtrodden. At his press conference, the President pointedly exempted any such movements dominated by "external"-meaning Communist-forces, thereby shutting the door on renewed diplomatic relations with Fidel Castro's Cuba...
...year 1961 was supposed to be "The Year of Education" in Fidel Castro's Cuba. Last week the slogan was enlarged. It is now also "The Year of the Firing Squad." The announcement was made by Cuba's Agrarian Reform Chief Antonio Núñez Jiménez in a speech to a crowd of gun-toting militiamen. Added the Reformer: "We will erect the most formidable execution wall in the history of humanity...