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...only support the French position. He seems equally sure that the U.S. will head off any General Assembly debate on the base at Bizerte lest it give an opportunity to Cuba's Fidel Castro, backed by the Soviet Union, to sound off about the U.S. naval base at Guantánamo...
...occurred to many Americans, even including some New Frontiersmen. But within the Administration, the impulse quickly faded away. For a while at least, Castro is safe from any invasion by U.S. armed forces-unless he foolishly gives the U.S. an excuse for intervention by trying to seize the Guantánamo naval base...
...week's end, 1,450 Marines, who had been on training maneuvers with the fleet, landed at Guantánamo. The U.S. made it clear in advance of their arrival that they were there for a weekend's rest, not invasion. But that calm word seemed to have little effect. In the U.N. Steering Committee, Cuba's Foreign Minister Raul Roa shouted: "The invasion can occur within the next few hours." U.S. Delegate James Barco, passing over the fact that Castro had just grabbed another 164 U.S. firms, worth approximately $250 million, hastened to set him straight...
...State Department does not expect a serious attack on Guantanamo. But last week it called in reporters to make it clear all around that if Castro strikes, the U.S. will repulse him. Though Guantánamo itself is no longer vital to defense, its possession is important to U.S. treaty rights around the world. The Navy has plans to deal with every contingency, from an assault in force to sniping from the hills. If there is a march on the gates by women and children, the Navy will disperse them without guns; if Castro cuts off the water supply...
...policy. "There were eleven dictators in South America and in Central America when we came in in 1953; today there are only three left, including the one in Cuba." He accused Kennedy of "defeatist talk," declared flatly that "there isn't any question but that we will defend Guantánamo [the U.S. Navy base in Cuba] if it is attacked." Kennedy's riposte: "We have almost ignored the needs of Latin America; we have beamed not a single Voice of America program in Spanish to all of Latin America in the last eight years except...