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On the recordJanuary 14, 1963
In Latin America, where the Castro regime was to provide a lever to pry away the whole southern half of the hemisphere, the clandestine but unsuccessful effort to transform the disillusioned island of Cuba into a nuclear base--as contrasted with the constructive promise and purpose of the Alliance for Progress--has newly united the Inter-American system.
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John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Democratic · Massachusetts

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Magazine Article \Where We Stand.\

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