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Conceived and worded by Linda Greenberg '62, the document condemns aid to "political and military groups operating against the government of Cuba" on both moral and tactical grounds. It stresses the non-interventionist clauses of the Charter of the Organization of American states and the United Nations Charter, both of which the United States government has signed...
Some neutral-leaning countries wandered down more romantic trails. Burbled the Ceylon Observer: "A new generation, has now taken command. It is their destiny that the Nassers, the Nkrumahs, the Castros and the Kennedys will shape." All over Latin America, despite Kennedy's interventionist threat in Cuba (snapped Castro's official newspaper Revolución: "Four years of a rich illiterate"), his victory was hailed jubilantly as "a return to the policies of Franklin Roosevelt." In India and Malaya, neutralist Kennedy fans thought he really favors, as they do, recognition of Red China...
...Foul Hogs." It was easy for a dictatorship to fill the streets of China's cities, from Nanning in the south to Harbin in the subarctic north, with marching thousands, who obediently shouted the identical tongue-twisting slogans: "Smash the foreign interventionist plot to undermine China's reunification!" and "Oppose the rebellion in Tibet instigated by the imperialists and foreign reactionaries...
...always emphatic. TIME is apt to be denounced for printing a scandal of the reader's own country and praised by the same reader for exposing the unlovely truth in a neighboring land. TIME is eagerly sought as a window on the world, and denounced as an unwanted interventionist in foreign affairs. A story of impressive accomplishment in Brazil recently inspired President Juscelino Kubitschek to pull out his Portuguese-English dictionary and translate it personally for the local press. Another story of the drought that is starving thousands in northeast Brazil moved Rio's Diario Carioca to comment...
...provisional College group advocating strong U.S. action in Hungary will sponsor a kick-off rally in Boston Sunday night to mobilize nation-wide student support for its interventionist appeal...