...unilateral military intervention on the part of the United States cannot currently be either required or justified, and it is regrettable that loose talk...the Communist pretense that such a threat exists. But let me make this clear once again: If at any time the Communist buildup in Cuba were to endanger...

...Policy: Current Documents, 1961, pp. 358-372. 'Seeojtfe, doc, 1 11-15. " See ante, doc. 111-34. table that loose talk about such action in this country...the Communist pretense that such a threat exists. But let me make this clear once again : If at any time the Communist buildup in Cuba were to endanger...

...their "rash" and "loose" talk. Such calls for military action, the President warned, could only help "to give a thin color of legitimacy to the Communist pretense that such a threat exists. " At this time, Kennedy assured the nation, Cuba did not represent a serious threat to the United States...

..."Unilateral military intervention on the part of the United States cannot currently be either required or justified, and it is regrettable that loose talk...the Communist pretense that such a threat exists. But let me make this clear once again: If at any time the Communist buildup in Cuba were to endanger...

..."Unilateral military intervention on the part of the United States cannot currently be either required or justified, and it is regrettable that loose talk...action in this country might serve to give a thin colour of legitimacy to the Communist pretense that such a threat exists. But let me make this clear...