Word: friendships
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...leftward, toward the shadow of Moscow. What had been a tyranny under Batista remained one under Castro. But even as other newsmen, among them Ruby Hart Phillips, the Times's Havana correspondent for 24 years, reported these facts, Matthews stuck by his adopted rebel. Castro "insists he wants friendship" with the U.S., wrote Matthews in March 1959, "While welcoming American investments, he says he would prefer American loans." Two months later Castro an nounced plans to expropriate 1,660,000 acres of sugar cane owned by U.S. companies. In July of the same year, Matthews wrote: "This...
...around the turn of the century. A graduate of Harvard College '14, grandson of Senator Charles Sumner, (who is perhaps best remembered for having said, "A Congressman is a hog. You must take a stick and hit him on the snout!") Welles rose rapidly in the diplomatic service. The friendship of Franklin D. Roosevelt and others who recognized him as one of their own were of value in a day in which the State Department was one of Washington's more exclusive clubs...
...much longer must we support such selfish and narrow-minded "neutrals"? I believe that it is high time we stopped trying to buy friends. Let these nations learn that the road of friendship is a two-way street...
Next morning, Kennedy saw Sukarno and Keita separately. First to arrive was Keita, who wore, instead of his arrival-day blue suit, a multicolored, hand-woven robe called a boubou. Keita talked of his country's need for economic assistance,* warned Kennedy that in the new African states, friendship goes to the big powers that provide the most help...
Like President Eisenhower before him, President Kennedy thought for a while that it might be possible, by holding out the U.S. hand of friendship and financial aid, to lure such occasionally dissident Communist dictators as Yugoslavia's Tito and Poland's Wladyslaw Gomulka to the side of the West. But recent events have changed the President's mind. Gomulka, following Moscow's lead, moved toward partial mobilization of Poland's armed forces, and warned that Poland would not "remain passive" in the Berlin crisis. And fortnight ago, at the conference of neutrals in Belgrade, Tito...