List Price: $25.95 Hardcover: 262 pages; Introduction by U.S. Senator Jesse Helms; Preface by Earl E.T. Smith; End Maps of Washington, DC and La Habana, circa 1958; Appendices including three articles on Fidel Castro by Herbert L. Matthews of the New York Times published in 1957; Index.
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I have undertaken to write this book becuase I am convinced that my experience as the United States Ambassador to Cuba was unusual in the sense that i lived through the Castro Communist Revolution, and I feel that I owe it to the American people to try to establish the fact that the Castro Communist Revolution need never have occurred. From this experience, i learned not only that our techniques of relations with Cuba were faulty but that the modus operandi for the determination of policy is not only inadequate but dangerous to the defense of our country. In Chapter 22 of this book, I summarize the conclusions reached from this experience.
I have written this book only as a footnote to history and to the science of government. It can have no other purpose. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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Earl E.T. Smith, a financier, corporate director and member of the New York Stock Exchange, was born in Newport, Rhode Island and attended the Taft School and Yale University. During World War II, he served as Lieutenant Colonel in the United States Army and the United States 8th Air Force Intelligence. Earl E.T. Smith was appointed United States Ambassador to Cuba by President Dwight D. Eishehower and served from 1957 to 1959. He was later appointed as a member of the Commission of Broadcasting to Cuba by President Ronald Reagan. Earl E.T. Smith died in his home in Palm Beach, Florida, on February 15, 1991. He was 87 years old.
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Excellent recall of what happen at that time and TRUE, there are minor omisions, that might be for some personal reasons..!All and perhaps some he left out are fully TRUE...! Who knows why it develop that way... to whom the internal US Political machine was responding to at that time..?
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Excellent book. Gives a detailed account of the Communist takeover of Cuba and America's role in the takeover.
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