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...reports of the failure of the Cuban version of the "strategy of peace" circulated, the American role in the counter-revolution was denounced as "a disastrous mistake," a "terrible policy decision," and a "reckless, irresponsible idea...
...This was a reckless and irresponsible idea, bound to provoke unfavorable opinion abroad, particularly in Asia and Africa," H. Stuart Hughes, professor of History, stated...
...that Russia's underlying purpose in Laos is to keep a more militant Peking out. The argument: Soviet leaders are no less anxious than the U.S. to prevent the total takeover of Southeast Asia by the Chinese, and by intervening in Laos themselves, hoped to forestall a more reckless Chinese intervention that might lead to a general war. Indian diplomats, who are concerned about the Chinese on their borders, liked this explanation, pointing out that Moscow has in fact been competing with Peking for the dominant position in North Viet Nam. Pathet Lao rebels in Laos are being supplied...
...seemingly honeyed tribute to Kennedy just after the election. Shannon expressed between-the-lines doubts: "If the physical courage is matched by the political courage, if the intellectual brilliance is touched with enough compassion and imagination, if the canny political skill is ennobled by an occasional act of reckless daring on behalf of moral principle, then John Fitzgerald Kennedy will take his place in the lofty company to which he honorably aspires." Since then, although still generally enthusiastic about the Kennedy Administration, Shannon has increasingly peppered his prose. Wrote he of Kennedy's early Cabinet choices: "It has been...
...conservative slogan than of a clear, analytic position. In other words, Advance's categorizations won't do; the magazine is fat with the standard phraseology of the men they profess to reject. It is not so harsh as that of the National Review, but it is all here: "reckless spending," "aggrandisement of federal power," and even "Big government." And there is also an original Dowling carton: "Labor Leaders" and "Liberal Experimenters" and "Spenders" sit grinning in a horseless cart while a wretched little man named "Taxpayers" looks on be-wildered...