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Another Story. At the Vienna conference, Khrushchev was tough on Berlin, urging in a written memo that the West immediately sign a German peace treaty. Last week the Soviet Union charged that the forthcoming meetings of the West German Parliament in Berlin were "provocations endangering peace." Khrushchev seemed a bit...
The lessons of Cuba, in contrast, came with jolting swiftness. Again, Kennedy underestimated his adversary and overestimated the realism of his own expectations. In backing the invasion of Cuba by a force of U.S.-trained Cuban exiles, Kennedy hoped to bring down Fidel Castro's Communist regime in Cuba...
Principal Kennedy recommendations for correcting the mess and seizing the opportunity:
Journey to Manhattan. The Congolese victors promptly declared the port closed. With the entire flow of U.N. supplies at the mercy of the Congolese, Indian U.N. Congo Chief Rajeshwar Dayal threatened force, then negotiated with the Congolese to allow his men to reenter. Seizing its chance, Kasavubu's regime...
Admiring Diplomats. Bourguiba survives through skill in bargaining and agility in seizing small advantages-a technique that admiring French diplomats have dubbed "Bourguibisme." He has already advised the F.L.N. leaders against demanding too much of France or striking vainglorious attitudes. By ignoring De Gaulle's grandiloquent words and accepting...