Where the News Ends

...On an infinitely smaller scale the same may be said of Khrushchev's latest satellite, Fidel Castro...

...Why don't we take the offensive on an ideal moral issue, the freedom of West Berlin...

...Or when Fidel Castro throws a temper tantrum when presented with a hotel bill (he cannot "nationalize" hotels in New York as he can in Cuba) and ostentatiously decamps to another more suitable hostelry which played host to the convention of the American Communist party...

...It is easy to foresee the fate of this document...

...If he had been getting telephone orders from Moscow on every move, it is hard to see how he could have helped the Communists more...

...If Castro is not a Communist, he is cheating the Party of its dues...

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...Unless we speak up for our own cause more loudly and effectively, there is danger he may he right...

...The mass invasion of New York by Communist and neutralist leaders reflects Khrushchev's belief that he can use the United Nations for his own exclusive propaganda forum...

...it will add to the load of a good many waste-baskets...

...But it is not so funny when American organizations and individuals act as if nothing had happened last May in Paris when Khrushchev heaped epithets of gutter abuse on the President of the United States...

...No doubt it is good clean fun when Khrushchev appears on his balcony like a caricature of Juliet and bawls down uncommunicative answers to journalists on the street below...

...What a preposterous spectacle it has been...

...Khrushchev has been able to turn the United Nations into an immense sounding board for Communist propaganda—with very little effective opposition from the United States...

...When a bird waddles like a duck, swims like a duck and quacks like a duck it is a reasonable assumption that it is a duck...

...This role has been intensified since he torpedoed the very summit meeting which he worked so hard to bring about...

...But there should have been the strictest kind of social boycott, a complete abstention from anything that would give Khrushchev an opportunity to make news...

...It's hard to see why the West should let a good case go by default...

...WHERE the NEWS ENDS By W'illiam Henry Chamberlin Khrushchev's UN Propaganda Circus APART FROM THE comedy asides of the UN propaganda circus presented by Nikita Khrushchev and his motley crew, there are two disquieting conclusions to be drawn from this amazing performance: First, some Americans are sadly lacking in an elementary sense of national self-respect...

...Castro has gone all-out for the closest ties with Moscow and Peking, has permitted no free elections, has completely destroyed freedom of the press, has devoted his state-controlled press and radio to wild vilification of the United States, has made every attempt to export his brand of pro-Communist revolution to other Latin American countries and has confiscated a billion dollars worth of United States property without any serious offer of compensation...

...It is most regrettable that the Overseas Press Club invited Khrushchev to speak and that anyone attended the luncheon arranged for the Soviet Premier by the American replica of the Dean of Canterbury, Cyrus Eaton...

...Still more unfortunate has been Khrushchev's success in organizing a campaign of lies, insults, abuse and vituperation against America, to which the American and Western response has been extremely feeble...

...When disarmament was discussed, why didn't someone on the Western side give a closely documented record of the Soviets' innumerable breaches of treaties and international promises—to show why only the closest kind of fool-proof, self-enforcing inspection could make a treaty on disarmament anything but a most dangerous and perhaps fatal trap for the West...

...There has been the same absence of hard-hitting initiative in dealing with Khrushchev...

...As a matter of principle, Khrushchev has used every conceivable device to keep the world in turmoil, to prevent peaceful settlements of international disputes, to stir up strife and bloodshed wherever he can...

...Why don't we propose a resolution of censure against Khrushchev for threatening rocket attacks on the United States...

...After the Soviet Premier threatened to spread war to every colonial area in the world, why didn't someone on the Western side give a chapter-and-verse account of Soviet colonialism—which is active and growing, while Western colonialism is clearly in retreat and dissolution...

...But after Castro took up four-and-a-half hours at the General Assembly with denunciation of the United States, our reply only added up to some platitudes about desiring friendship with the Cuban people and promising to produce, in time, a documentary refutation of Castro's wild charges...

...A news blackout on Khrushchev's statements during his unwelcome visit would have been self-defeating and out of line with the tradition of a press that reports the news, pleasant or unpleasant...