Friday, Oct. 26, 1962 University Daily Kansan Page 9
Blockade Junks Republican Issue
By Lyle C. Wilson
WASHINGTON — (UPI) – President Kennedy's abrupt challenge to the Russian arms build-up in Cuba junked the prime campaign issue on which Republicans hoped to win this off-year election. The impact on the election is likely to be very great.
Kennedy's blockade of arms to Cuba and his warning to the Soviet Union cleared him for the remainder of the domestic political contest of Republican charges that he is indecisive, timid and unable to devise policy to cope with a Communist threat based 90 miles off Florida. Cuba was the top, and most effective, Republican example in the argument that Kennedy foreign policy was a no-win, futile instrument.
THE REPUBLICAN congressional committee newsletter distributed yesterday contained this paragraph:
"The three Republican chairmen—Rep. William E. Miller, New York, of the National Committee, Sen. Barry Goldwater, Arizona, of the Senatorial Committee, and Rep. Bob Wilson, California, of the Congressional Committee—agreed with many neutral observers that Cuba was the no. 1 issue of the 1962 campaign."
These three, in a statement, added: "If we were asked to state the issue in one word, that word would be Cuba, symbol of the tragic irresolution of the Administration."
MERELY A CASUAL reading of newspaper reports from the campaign front in the past fortnight demonstrated that the issue of Cuba was burning deeply in the voters' minds. Democratic candidates were hurt and party election prospects were damaged.
Moreover, reports of missile bases and other offensive weapons developments in Cuba were accompanied by contention that the Russians who have swarmed into Cuba were not mere technicians, as Kennedy insisted, but comprised battle troops. There was developing considerable campaign anxiety that Cuban-Russian armed forces might move against the precariously balanced regimes in Haiti and the Dominican Republic. There scarcely could be fear of an invasion of the United States by Cuban or by Russian forces now based there. But the fact of missile installations made the United States and Mexico vulnerable.
The President emerges from Washington's most exciting weekend since World War II with what Madison Avenue would term an image.
THE IMAGE is that of a hard nosed, red-haired Irish-American, chin jutting in a fists-up posture and ready for battle if battle there must be.
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