31-05-2019, 07:57 PM
This is the most relevant thread I could find on JFK foreign policy. I just discovered a new item in JFK's ill-fated European policy.
Many people have pointed up that the Nuclear Test Ban Treaty was a major bone of contention in the six months before the assassination. What I did not know that the opposition of Germany to this treaty was because East Germany was being allowed to be a signatory to that treaty. That affected the reunification of Germany issue.
Both Judge Robert Morris and New Orleans right-winger Kent Courtney wrote 100 page books opposing this treaty in 1963. (Neither had any personal reason to be so opposed to that basically bland treaty nor reason to write a book about it).
In addition, General Thomas Power was the only uniformed active duty person in the military to oppose the treaty. Only the extremists in the Senate opposed it, i.e. Barry Goldwater and Strom Thurmond wound up voting against it. Even Senator Thomas Dodd changed his mind at the last minute and voted in favor.
Seems like there is still a lot to learn about JFK's (possibly suicidal) foreign policy decisions. (Not that the Nuclear Test Ban Treaty was a bad idea IMHO). But to some people, it clearly was.
James Lateer
Many people have pointed up that the Nuclear Test Ban Treaty was a major bone of contention in the six months before the assassination. What I did not know that the opposition of Germany to this treaty was because East Germany was being allowed to be a signatory to that treaty. That affected the reunification of Germany issue.
Both Judge Robert Morris and New Orleans right-winger Kent Courtney wrote 100 page books opposing this treaty in 1963. (Neither had any personal reason to be so opposed to that basically bland treaty nor reason to write a book about it).
In addition, General Thomas Power was the only uniformed active duty person in the military to oppose the treaty. Only the extremists in the Senate opposed it, i.e. Barry Goldwater and Strom Thurmond wound up voting against it. Even Senator Thomas Dodd changed his mind at the last minute and voted in favor.
Seems like there is still a lot to learn about JFK's (possibly suicidal) foreign policy decisions. (Not that the Nuclear Test Ban Treaty was a bad idea IMHO). But to some people, it clearly was.
James Lateer