Evening star

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someone to go away. Policy, in a case

like this, means assisting someone out

of,office or assisting someone else in.

Obviously we take the position now

adays that armed Intervention cannot

be undertaken in this hemisphere, bar

ring a spectacular threat to our security

like the presence somewhere of Soviet

rockets. There are ways, however, of ac

complishing these things.

For one thing, as we pointed out

the other day, there is economic pres

sure. Our purchases from Haiti are not

extensive. But, for Instance, could we

not get along without Haitian coffee

while Duvalier remains in power?

Duvalier could be toppled, as he

should be, by the Haitians themselves—

relatively few of them. The men to

topple him are there and, sooner or

later, one of them will organize the job.

They need guns, grenades and explo

sives. If the United States remains a

spectator, growling only when its na

tionals seem to be menaced, the next

leader of Haiti will owe us even less

than the present one.

If the State Department now vir

tuously argues that we cannot meddle

in the affairs of neighboring countries,

it has a short memory that any survivor

of the Bay of Pigs or of the CIA-spon*

sored revolt against Jacobo Arbenz of

Guatemala could refresh. It also should

have heeded these promptings of reti

cence before our national prestige was

conspicuously committed to the abortive

effort last month.

Haiti, of course, is close to Cuba

geographically, just as the two cases

art closely parallel. If Duvalier were to

iriyite the Russians in—or if Castro were

How to cite this articleCómo citar este artículo

Evening star. (1963). Washington, D.C., 1963-06-09. US/DR Newspaper Timeline. Library of Congress, Chronicling America: https://www.loc.gov/resource/sn83045462/1963-06-09/ed-1/?sp=66

ReferencesReferencias

Library of Congress, Chronicling America: Evening star, 1963-06-09.