Cuba Story, Wraps Off

The cuba story, when told properly and completely, will be one of the tragic epics of our time. Like the China story, it is a tale of human folly. At each step of the way to the current crisis, what was ahead could be predicted. But the Cassandras who spoke out were reviled, their warnings rejected, by men whose proven errors only added to their arrogance.

It is a tale beginning in the early 1950s when a group of Cuban exiles—pro-American, anti-Communist, and dedicated to the overthrow of Fulgencio Batista—were tossed into prison by a State Department which subsequently did everything in its power to bring about the victory of Fidel Castro and his Communist conspirators. This abortive revolt could have succeeded with no more help from the United States than a decision to overlook laws which theoretically bar the planning of revolts on American soil. Today, it will take a full-scale invasion of Cuba by troops armed and trained by the United States, with adequate air cover, to overthrow the Castro Communist dictatorship.

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The cuba story, when told properly and completely, will be one of the tragic epics of our time. Like the China story, it is a tale of human folly. At each step of the way to the current crisis, what was ahead could be predicted. But the Cassandras who spoke out were reviled, their warnings rejected, by men whose proven errors only added to their arrogance.

It is a tale beginning in the early 1950s when a group of Cuban exiles—pro-American, anti-Communist, and dedicated to the overthrow of Fulgencio Batista—were tossed into prison by a State Department which subsequently did everything in its power to bring about the victory of Fidel Castro and his Communist conspirators. This abortive revolt could have succeeded with no more help from the United States than a decision to overlook laws which theoretically bar the planning of revolts on American soil. Today, it will take a full-scale invasion of Cuba by troops armed and trained by the United States, with adequate air cover, to overthrow the Castro Communist dictatorship.