Word: krock
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...after the president spoke, New York Times Columnist Arthur Krock charged that "a little more beautiful White House coordination would have spared Mr. Kennedy at least one acutely embarrassing experience." Recently, Kennedy nominated White House Staffer Frank Reeves to be the first Negro on the Board of Commissioners for the District of Columbia. Although checking financial records of presidential nominees is routine, no White House aide noticed that eight income tax liens had been sworn out against Reeves in the last ten years-a fact that the Senate easily discovered. Last week Kennedy was forced to withdraw Reeves...
...Hearst series went on to attack the small (but disciplined) band of young men responsible for writing the statement, and to announce: "Red hue seen in Cuba peace plea." Meanwhile, the New York Times' sober analyst Arthur Krock, based his attack not on innuendo, but on his own concept of the pertinent facts...
...Krock unrolled one version of the Monroe Doctrine as he dismissed the charge that "the determination to isolate Cuba made the Soviet bloc Castro's only source of military and economic support." His fundamental point cites Castro's aggressively anti-U.S. posture, and the fact that he "accepted aid from outside the American continent for purposes clearly in violation of the Resolution of Caracas...
...following paragraph, however, Krock observes "that by training, equipping and transporting the anti-Castro rebels, the United States violated Article 15, and perhaps to a degree (sic!) the Caracas Resolution requirement of prior consultation. But Castro's acts, only a few of which are enumerated above, pose the open threat of the establishment in this hemisphere..." In other words, no matter how clearly threatened Cuba may have been (and after all, they were invaded after the press spoon-fed the American public an image of Castro-the-maniac who was stirring up fears of an imminent invasion from the North...
...States Government's policy toward Cuba. The statement has received wide coverage in the national press and in Latin American newspapers; it has inspired a series of four articles in the Boston American, moderately disapproving editorials in the Boston Globe and the Christian Science Monitor, and columns by Arthur Krock (who disapproved) and Max Lerner (who was interested in the dissatisfaction of "young intellectuals"). It has moved a considerable number of persons to write letters of counter-protest to the Harvard Administration...