Thursday, July 8, 1954
July 8, 1954
JFK gives a speech in the United States Senate highlighting what he feels is a shortsighted diplomatic campaign of the US to side with European powers at the expense of their colonies and territories. In this anti-colonialist tenor he remarked that the United States was paying,
“… a heavy price in connection with our relationships with the peoples of the Middle East and Asia. If we continue to pay this price, we are going to be faced with Indochinas all over the world where colonialism is maintained.”
In the speech, Kennedy also brought up the spector of communism gaining entry into Latin America,
“The two places in the Western Hemisphere where Communism developed were British Guiana and Guatemala. Guatemala has been the victim of economic imperialism for many years.”
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