ONE-MAN SHOW
Cuban Crisis Report
(N.Z.P.A.-Reut»T—Copyright) WASHINGTON. January ». President Kennedy eternised virtually a one-man direction of Government action durinc the Cuban crisis, a Sonata report said last night. The report suggested that a sweeping overhaul of machinery tor decline with national security crises in an atomic age might b® nsoMMty. Therepcrt, by Senator Henry Jackson (Democrat), chairman of the Senate subcommittee on national security staffing and operations, was hot critical of the President’s handling of the Cuban crisis. ■ It said: "In a period when war or peace may hinge on the way in which a quarantine of Cuba is handled, there is a strong tendency fa* a Preaideot to exert contra! trom the centre, because of We risks of leaving deiieate matters to subordinates." But ft added tint the Cuban situation had pointed up the need for a sweeping overhaul of present Governmental machinery tor dealing with national security problems which, the report said, was dangerously cumunwieldy and inadequate for dealing with swiftly-developing crises of an atomic age.
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Press, Volume CII, Issue 30044, 31 January 1963, Page 15
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