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Frankly Interested. To peddle the placebo, the Administration plucked old State Department Hand Livingston Merchant from retirement. To his surprise, MLF met with a surprisingly warm reception. Though some allied statesmen hemmed that its cost would prevent them from meeting U.S. requests to strengthen conventional forces, West Germany, Italy and Belgium were frankly interested. Last month Merchant actually succeeded in extracting a commitment from West Germany to pay 40% of the entire cost of the project...
...Cuban professional men, and the Second Front of the Escambray, one of Castro's disillusioned old revolutionary groups-took all the credit. The State Department professed to be embarrassed by it all: "Such raids do not weaken the grip of the Communist regime in Cuba-indeed, they may strengthen...
...envisaged the possibility of asking the Soviet Union for missiles," said Castro, "but had reached no decision-when Moscow proposed them to us without prompting." Apparently Castro did not think they were really wanted for Cuba's sake: "They told us that by accepting them we would strengthen the socialist camp throughout the world. We decided to accept them to defend international socialism...
...underestimated the threat of World Communism. Many of us supported Henry Wallace, the intellectual, against the small-time politician, Harry Truman. But the politician, a self-educated ex-storekeeper, know better than we. He understood the threat of the Soviet Union, moved decisively to arm and strengthen Western Europe. Again, how fortunate for civilization that no one listened to us, as our ranks grow smaller...
...initial speech, Seymour told the Council that it had "a terrific opportunity" to permanently establish itself as "an important force in Harvard College." He said the Council would have to strengthen its ties with the House committees and the Masters if it intended to accomplish...