Word: khrushchevism
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Just when everything seems to be going his way, Nikita Khrushchev has a habit of overreaching himself. Now he has obliged over Cuba. Until he brandished his rockets and mouthed his threats, the quarrel between the U.S. and Cuba met with a disquieting passivity in Latin America. Though governments might know better, their people generally side with Castro. Then Khrushchev proclaimed that any attack on Cuba would bring instant retaliation against the U.S. by Soviet intercontinental missiles. The Monroe Doc trine, he said, is dead, and should be buried "so that it should not poison the air by its decay...
...Khrushchev's claim that Cuba was a Communist protectorate resurrected the Monroe Doctrine in a form close to the original. Eisenhower warned that "the U.S. will not permit the establishment of a regime dominated by international Communism in the Western Hemisphere." Ike's warning was unilateral, but as the State Department pointed out last week, the Monroe Doctrine has been built into joint policy by the nations of the Americas, in the OAS charter and the Rio Treaty...
...President Nixon was stoned in Peru and Venezuela; the following month the U.S. joined an international coffee study program. Now, in offering $500 million worth of help for social needs, the U.S. has made a similar about-face, on the heels of new fears that the influence of Nikita Khrushchev may spread across the neglected hemisphere. The trouble with this policy is that the U.S. pays the bills but its enemies get the credit for spurring it into action...
...MERCURIC of Santiago, Chile: Khrushchev's threats are not only against the U.S. but against all countries in Latin America. They must be answered by all countries acting...
...PRENSA of Lima: On the chessboard of international rivalries, Khrushchev is now moving a pawn named Fidel Castro...