SHOCKING , SENSELESS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000400310021-4
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 11, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 15, 1998
• Sequence Number: 21
• Publication Date: February 13, 1964
• Content Type: NSPR

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FEB 1 3 1964
LITTLE ROCK, ARK.
DEMOCRAT
e. 84,691
S. 103,346
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Date: r E3 13 1964
"Shocking, Senseless' ;'CPYRGHT
cnselcss" are the words used
Sy Secretary of State Dean husk
nd h is State Department of
Utter Confusion" in describing
he tragic death of three Ameri-
an officers killed by the Rus-
lass in an unarmed plane. If
4 he State Department and Mr.
Rusk think this act is in t he
Balm of being shocking and
enscless than it is time for them
o review their own past atti-
udes and actions.
11: was this same department
hat insisted on trading will'
Russia an credit terms at;lhc
ventual expense of t h e
>tw
rartment that loaned Lee .(I'
swald money to return to this
ountry after he had denouncjed
s citizenship to become a R+ts-
sian and are continuing this same
-rolicy today. It is this depart-
,nit, while being so violently
I
pposed to communism, that has
dvocated a "let's be sure and
of hurt their feelings" policy
oward Communist front group
n this country, thereby letting;
hem spread their propaganda!
t will. This same department
LLnow Just which country Ch
CPYRGHT
ommunists are going to take
ver next, and the only excuse;
hey offer the citizens is "Well,;
oily bum ,how do you reckon!
his happened?"
The time has come for Mr.
usk and others like him to:
ealize that the war against
ommunism cannot be won wit
lowery sounding words and in-
tead of just speaking softly
nd carrying a big stick, let's,
how these thugs and cutthroats
.hat we'll use our big stick if
KERN K. KENNEDY,
St. Louis, Mo.
CPYRGHT
SAN DIEGO, CALIF.
UNION
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Date: ''E8 1-' 196
Lack of Firmness
Seen as U.S. Peril
E D I T O R, THE UNION:
The State Department has
been trying to play down;
Communist involvement in
the rioting in the Panama
Canal Zone in spite of the
poverwhelming evidence
brought forward by the
Pentagon and the CIA.
As I understood the rea
son for this reluctance to
?bring up the Communist is-
!sue, it is the State Depart-
?ment's wish to save Presi
dent Chiari's face in the
;?hope of facilitating a quick
11settlpment with him.
V However, this won't work
and will never work. In-
rslead, Chiari should bluntly
he told of his flagrant fail-
ure in curbing the Commu
fist cancer in his country
=and that consequently any
revision of the canal treaty
4would be out of the ques
;tion.
'T'his instance. of dodging
the Communist issue by the
State Department is not
surprising. It has become
an art highly developed by.:
the State Department, from
,the desk level to the higher
dignitaries.'
This policy has been and
,will be the cause of our
steady losses In the Cold
War as, for instance, the
Cuban debacle and the in-
evitable conquest, of Laos
by the Reds'in the near fu-
lture.
It still has not dawned
on the State Department's
bureaucrats that dodging of
the Communist issue in-
stead, of firmly coming to.
grips with it will always be
at.our peril. . , {
Palomar Mt. Observatory.
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