Evening star., 1960-11-07

rectly in a recent editorial
(which I received while in
South America on business)
that Mr.. Kennedy is wrong
when he takes of after our
last two Ambassadors to
Cuba and. inferentially and
directly, after his worthy op-
ponent for the presidency,
Mr.. Nixon, the Department
Of State. and any other
handy target Of opportunity.
Can Mr.. Kennedy point
out a time or an instance in
which he, his party. or that
element Of the press avow-
edly Democratic. stood up
for a legal government Of
Cuba as a friendly nation
fighting a civil war against
a transparently obviously
and historically known fellow
traveller who hardly attempt
ed to disguise his Communist
Affiliations?
In 1858 Cuba had the high
est rate Of employment in
its history; in 1855, when
Mr.. Nixon was last there.
United States private enter
prise was laying the ground
work for the industry and
agriculture which made Cuba
three years later, If not a
perfect example of political
science, an outstanding ex-
ample Of progress.
Sir Winston Churchill once
commented that mo one
votes for a person, they vote
against him." Is it not pos
sible that Batista was not as
evil as a handful of Caribbean
idealists claim he was? Is it
not possible that while all
the new roads, schools, public
buildings and churches were
going up and the people
thereby employed in an ef-
fort to diversity the economy,
this was actually being done
for the good of all? Is q pa
ternalistic government that
does good for its people ar
bitrarily bad? Do all govern
mentS have to automatically
conform to the idealism of
our own form of republican
democracy?
william A. Ulman.
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Vice President Nixon may
be sadly mistaken for his
hoped-for voters reaction to
Eisenhower's massive help
for him in the closing days
of the campaign. The Ameri-
can voter likes, more than
anything else, to feel that he
is voting for a strong cap,
able self-reliant leader who
needs no help to present and
win his own case. To create
the image of a Nixon who is
in need of help at this stage
of the campaign may prove
to be the deciding factor
with more than a few voters.
especially when matched
against the picture of q
calm. courageous, and con-
fident Kennedy who fought
his own battles from the
primaries on up. I'm afraid
the voters would think a lot
more of Nixon If he stood on
his own feet.
Fortnight Voter.
In a warning to fellow
Democrats at Gary. Ind, last
February, Senator Kennedy
said:
"They (the Republicans
are in power nationally, con-
trolling the executive branch
and that means power to
channel defense contracts.
award patronage, purchase
surplus commodities. file
criminal indictments and
hold presidential press con-
ferenceS."
Those are the words of a
man with power lust in his
eyes and in his heart. There
Is no thought there for what
those things mean to the
people; only what they mean
to Kennedy; nothing for the
public good; only for a Ken
nedy advantage. They are
the symbols of a dictatorial
ambition.
When Mr.. Kennedy said at
Phoenix that Nixon could
have Ike and Lodge and
Rockefeller with him at New
York but that the American
people were not electing a
committee but a President,
he talked the cause of an alb
solute authority; the cause of
a brash young man who
would be hard to get along
with, especially by a coalition
of Northern Republicans and
Southern Conservatives.
AS to that committee"
business, one wonders II the
Kennedy family isn't some