Cuba: Triumph or Tragedy?

The fan-magazine treatment of the handful of men in the President’s kitchen cabinet who steered the nation through the crisis of the Cuban blockade has become embarrassing. Washington had already become the Hollywood of the upper middle class, and fashion magazines now have their girls model sweaters playing touch football. Through the slick media, every mannerism of the first family and other Administration personalities reverberates through the suburbs of the land. Most accounts of the crisis weeks, therefore, simply carried on in the Photoplay tradition. Analysis of the Cuban affair since the crisis has been mostly in terms of operational style and technique, seldom substance—except in the matter of Stevenson. But eve...