The Cuba crisis
Sir, —Being one who has never suffered from anticommunist. phobia, I wish to take issue with a statement in the article you reprinted from the “Economist” today. It mentions “Kennedy’s great triumph, the Cuba crisis.” As I remember it, it was as much a triumph for Khrushchev. Kennedy was being pushed by the hawks to smash Castro and the missile site. Khrushchev sent an urgent message to Kennedy saying “Mr President, in the action you are contemplating taking I beg you to ponder.” Kennedy pondered and they agreed that Kennedy should lay off Castro if Khrushchev would take his missiles home. Thus did the crisis fizzle out. N.A.T.O. had missile sites near the Iron Curtain but when the Soviet retaliated the game was not fair.— Yours, etc., G.E.M. July 15, 1971.
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Press, Volume CXI, Issue 32661, 17 July 1971, Page 16
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