ON THE UNIMPORTANCE OF PAGEANTRY

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP74-00297R000200560003-9
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 23, 2016
• Document Release Date: October 22, 2013
• Sequence Number: 3
• Publication Date: July 30, 1962
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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ishicasio NittiLit eributt. *twos we took did their country, Its
government, or En people, any specific
Wit Vann GREKIEST NEWSPAPER injury.
. retweeersras ow-, ? . As muth ening be said of Mr. Ken-
ON THE IINIMPORTANtgi,nedy's foray In Cuba. A good many men
OF PAGEANTRY wen "it'd, a geed serf Wien were
: permanently elleimed, seld gill more have
Andrew Herding, former assistant were- i heed handle:tiled under Severe sentences.
tary of state for public affairs, has written Nearly all the victims were OW friends.
a book, -Foreign Affairs and You," just Our failure enhanced Caetro's reputation
published by Doubleday. Mr. Bending thruout Latin America and lowered Presi-
thinks that President Eisenhower blun- dent Kennedy's. We cannot prove that
? dared calamitously when he took maponsi- the great* int/eased appropriations for
billy for the 1.1-2 flights over Russia but Latin America aid reflect the administra-
that President Kennedy wisely easunied don's effort to cleanse our blackened
blame for the Cuban fiasco. ? reputation but that seems plausible and
The difference, we are told, is that it is hardly necessary to add that Amer- ?
Eisenhower gave Khrusischev a plausible Iran taxpayers are kens* the W-
eems*? for canceling his invitition to the For or part we do not believe that ?
President to visit Moscow. Otherwise the ticker tape parades, 21-gun salutes., and
visit, in all probability, would have been all the rest of the pageantry and press
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a huge success, the Russian people would &gentry of summit conferences and good
have turned out in vast numbers to dem- gill tours are of much consequence. We
onstrate their affection for America and believe that, with or without these shows,
to hesu the President plead for peace, Mr. tensions would exist where tensions now
? Eisenhower would have gene on to Japan exist and to about the same degree. We .
es a messenger of peace to mankind, and believe, also, that in the long run deeds ! ?
even the Paris. conference might have which do real harm to our friends will
been a success. ' ceunt more heavily against us than deedsj
In Mr. Berding's judgment, no such which do harm to nobody.
train of regrettable consequences followed '
Mr. Kennedy's essay in realpolitik alth
Russian propagandists and Latin-Amer-
ican politicians continue to harp on the
Bay of Pigs.
It teems xi us that a much more valid
distinction (be be drawn between the te2
incident and the Cuban incident. When
Mr. Eisenbelner said he knew all the time'.
that the 11-2 was going to fly over Russia,
he was admitting responsibility for some-
thing that didn't do a single Rogan a
scintilla of '1'4m. The U 2 flights didn't
? kill . or ins ti anyone or deprive anyone
of his freetenn or his ? rights. Even the
Rogan"; ? itave never claimed that the
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