HARD PUSH FOR A SOFT UNCLE SAM

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000200930011-9
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 17, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 4, 2000
• Sequence Number: 11
• Publication Date: March 27, 1964
• Content Type: NSPR

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MAR 2 7 1964
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JOHN S. KNIGHT, Publisher JAMES L. KNIGHT, President
LEE HILLS, Executive Editor ALVAH I4. CHAPMAN Jr., General Manager
DON SHOEMAKER GEORGE BEEBE IOHN D. PENNEKAMP ARTHUR J. GUCIER
Editor Managing Editor Associate Editor. Business. Manager
'P'ublished Daily at t Herald. Plaza, Miami, Florida 33101
STATINTL
Hard Push For A Soft Uncle . Sam '1
THE CHAIRMAN of the Senate Forei We wonder how the rest of the world d"
gn would react if this country were to accept
Relations Committee has suggested in a . Cuban subversion of the hemisphere as
major address to his colleagues one of the normal, after pledging that it would not be.:
most sweeping revisions ever. in United j. tolerate a.
States foreign policy. We have allowed the argument with ~
Sen. J. W. Fulbright proposed that we' Panama to get completely out of perspec
"shed old moralistic myths and dare to tive because we withhold. disturbing facts.,.
for fear of ruffling Panamanian feelings.
think unthinkable things." Are the "moralistic myths" that a Com
Among these things are that' we accept munist Cuba is the enemy of all American ;.
Fidel Castro. as master of an impregnable democracies, that violent revolution cannot')'
Communist Cuba, that we accede to Pana- be avoided in Latin. America, that we can-'':
ma's demands in the Canal Zone and that not be firm elsewhere for fear of launching'
we recognize that "Khrushchev is not as a nuclear war?
bad as Stalin." Or are. the myth that Castro is invinci-,'
s
We should accommodate ourselves, it ble, .that we can do business with the Com: j
would seem, to a world in which we are no .. _... _.._.. _:.. _
longer a leader but a reactor. munists, that-we can buy respect with un-j
6-A Friday, March 27, 1964
policy and a frequent enunciator of admin , Senator Fulbright's address is part of a
istration thinking in this field, the Arkan- developing national debate of great import..
sas senator's address must be taken se-t' So far the weight of the argument appears
;, riously. It was weeks in preparation. It;, to be for a retreat, to a weaker position.
could not? have been made. without consul- i .: If the time has come to change, why not!,;l
Cation at the. highest State Department, advs,nce.to a stronger one?
It is of a piece with other developments.
One was the revision of our policy of oppo-
sition .to Latin Americas military dictator-
ships, announced by Thomas, C. Mann, un
dersecretary of state for inter-American
affairs at a.. recent diplomatic : briefing.i
Another was President Johnson's speech to,
the United' Auto Workers this week in;
which he said we must "substitute under-j
stanrling for retaliation."
Are we being prepared for ?a. shift. to as
, softer fined?
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