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...threat. Khrushchev showed once again that he is half blinded by his own ideological lenses. The Afro-Asians were scrupulously neutral. Khrushchev, having put himself in opposition not only to the West but to the U.N. and its leadership, was reduced to chumming around with Cuba's Fidel Castro, and such enthusiastic courtship of Castro seemed a petty pursuit for so great a power. (Even Communist satellite chieftains resented Khrushchev's paying more attention to Fidel than to themselves...
...hours Cuba's Premier Fidel Castro nursed his fury in the privacy of his pint-sized suite in Manhattan's genteel East Side Shelburne Hotel. From outside the chants of anti-Castro pickets wafted up intermittently ("Fidel, Communist, Fidel"), and when a squad of 15 Castro security guards headed out to obliterate the nuisance, the New York cops turned them back. Hotel Owner Edward Spatz could not have cared less about his distinguished guests. Suddenly, at dinner time, the lobby elevator door popped open and Fidel Castro-arms waving, beard wagging, voice rising and falling with rage-stormed...
...Cubans who had turned out to greet him in the rain. He railed against Manhattan's lack of hospitality; he denounced the Shelburne's demand for a $10,000 bond to pay for possible damage. "We'll sleep in the U.N. garden or in Central Park!" Fidel threatened. Hammarskjold countered with a polite invitation to dinner. Then, while the whole Cuban crew was drinking its meal on the U.N. terrace, the Secretary-General rounded up an offer of free rooms at the convenient midtown Hotel Commodore...
...cash-one day's rent for an assorted selection of the Theresa's rooms. This was more than the ordinary Harlem citizen would have been charged for the same supply of beds-and $440 more than Castro's daily bill at the Shelburne-but for Fidel it was a bargain. As soon as his press men passed the word that he was heading for Harlem, huge crowds turned out to greet him. Curious Negroes who cared little for his politics jostled Puerto Ricans and Cubans, who consider him their champion. Squads of cops were called into action...
...their new-won seats. Carrying themselves with graven dignity, often combining ritual facial scars with impeccable European manners, they came from lands of jungle and desert whose very names were scarcely known to the West-Chad, Gabon, Dahomey, Upper Volta. The headlines went to Dwight Eisenhower, Nikita Khrushchev and Fidel Castro. But in the sweep of history, the 15th U.N. Assembly might be regarded as the time of the Africans...