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...Prodding the President. Harry Truman, in his own way, was all for Monroe. "The reason we're in trouble in Cuba," he said, "is that Ike didn't have the guts to enforce the Monroe Doctrine." In less rough language, other politicians of both parties indicated that they felt the same way about Kennedy. South Carolina's Senator Strom Thurmond said the President's comments on Cuba "indicate strongly that the Monroe Doctrine has recently been reinterpreted with major omissions." In the Senate debate on the Administration request for stand-by authority to call...
...misgivings on the purposefully vague statements in the House of Commons by which Macmillan has sought to soft-pedal this potentially explosive issue. When cables reporting Adenauer's TV comments came clattering into London from the British embassy in Bonn late one night, Macmillan was sufficiently irked to prod the Foreign Office into action forthwith. At i a.m., when it takes a major crisis to awaken Whitehall, the government released excerpts from a letter written by the Prime Minister to Adenauer emphasizing Britain's "wish to join wholeheartedly" in Europe's "efforts to move toward greater political...
Shouts & Whispers. Under the constitution, President Gursel has little real power, but he continues to exert pressure on the politicians. Regularly, he climbs into the presidential Cadillac, speeds from his seaside villa near Istanbul to buttonhole and prod key politicians and military commanders. Gursel today is a spry 67, has almost fully recovered from a partial paralysis he suffered 17 months ago; he has also broken the chain-smoking habit and is proud of it. "During those first days," he recalls, "I felt that someone had me by the throat and voices were whispering in my ear 'Smoke, smoke...
...stood before the American Physical Society and laid it on the line for his anti-H-bomb colleagues. Said he: "Who among us will feel sinless if he has remained passively by while Western cul ture was being overwhelmed?" In his new job at the academy, Seitz plans to prod even more scientists into working for national security. Says he: "This is the way a democracy works. It depends on the private citizen making his services available in the public interest when he has something to offer...
...Roca brand of Communist discipline. "One day," says a diplomat, "Fidel will have to face all those he has sent to school. He is not likely to shake off the Communists now. More than ever he is surrounded by the personnel of the party. If the Communists keep quiet, prod a little here and there, and offer adulation, eventually they will grab away the real power...