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As Duvalier persisted into his unconstitutional second term, Venezuela and Costa Rica broke diplomatic relations. The U.S., in an odd neither-this-nor-that diplomatic maneuver, "suspended contacts" with Haiti. Ambassador Raymond L. Thurston was ordered to remain in Port-au-Prince, but to have absolutely no conversation with Duvalier...
The scene at Miami International Air port was sadly familiar. A Pan American DC-6B rolled to a halt, and TV cameras panned in as 115 refugees filed from the plane. But these passengers were from Franç Duvalier's Haiti - not Castro's Cuba-and they were...
Sense of Destiny. He was neither a rebel nor a conservative, but a conserver. He was no artist, except in using public language and in using men. His life was an infinitely varied mixture of leading and following, conforming and defying. He could temporize, compromise, and maneuver. But he always...
Hughes suggests two reasons why Eisenhower allowed himself to be contained behind the wall of Dulles' diplomacy. First, he describes Eisenhower as practically Hamlet-like in his reluctance to carry out his resolves. He was unwilling to indulge in political maneuver for fear the experience of "the gutter" would kill...
In four weary years of opposition, Pearson and his advisers gradually shaped a Liberal program, and Pearson became a more formidable parliamentary antagonist. For a time he had held back, in a conviction more appropriate to a historian than to an Opposition leader, feeling that the Diefenbaker Government was entitled...