Foreign Relations: Trouble, Trouble, Trouble

A harried State Department official looked with dismay at a piece of paper on his desk. It was a list of 25 people he was supposed to call to talk about trouble brewing in another part of the world. "My God," he muttered. "What a week!" Agreed a colleague who overheard him: "A nightmare!"

It was, indeed, that kind of week. There was trouble about Canada, trouble about Cuba, and, by far the most serious in its potential consequences, trouble about Europe and the Atlantic alliance.

Canada. The downfall of Prime Minister John...

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