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...view of the future of this comic ghoul among the arts. Life, he seems to think, is getting beyond a joke. "The real world has become so fantastic that satire, of which parody is a subdivision, is discouraged because reality outdistances it. What can a satirist add to the U2-Summit-Meeting fiasco? Or to the dealings between the United Nations and Premier Lumumba of the Congo Republic-the latter a character right out of Evelyn Waugh's Black Mischief? Indeed, in the Congo tragicomedy, history seems to be parodying itself...
...open to them: this is so to demoralize the Western Powers and their public opinion as to get their way without any reciprocal concessions, unilateral or multilateral. By threatening to send rockets against the United States if we harm Cuba or against our allies if they let us mount U2 flights from their soil; by putting the squeeze on Berlin; by wild out bursts at the United Nations which may suggest to many people that Krushchev is as mad as Hitler--in these and other ways, the Soviet rulers may so terrify and disorganize the peoples of the West that...
...retention of Hoover and Dulles has again dismayed liberals, who after swallowing the news, excused it in the name of non-partisanship, and (familiarly) shrewdness. But Hoover has antagonized liberals by his close identification with Congressional investigatory committees, and in keeping Dulles, Kennedy may be mutely accepting the misguided U2 policy...
...U2: "Those who advance the possibility of engine trouble having caused the vehicle to descend, and only thus make it vulnerable, are kidding themselves and doing the country a disservice. The fact is that our own Hercules has destroyed a target at 100,000 ft. and we have no reason or excuse for assuming that the Russians can do less...
...renewal of his familiar de mand for a U.S. apology over the U-2 incident. Gesturing as if to stomp on Ambassador Thompson's foot, he declared: "If I step on your foot, you expect me to apologize. Why didn't you apologize for the U2? If you are strong, you can afford to apologize...