But perhaps the most important matter in recent years has been its political defeat at the time of the Cuban Missiles Crisis, because that defeat at that time led very clearly to the Soviet decision to become a major world Power, able to intervene at any point of the earth's surface.

In matters of foreign policy and East-West relations, it is wise in any event to remind ourselves how much the West has aided and abetted the Soviet Union in achieving the position of military superiority which Mr. Kruschev was determined his country should achieve after his humiliation over the Cuban Missiles Crisis in 1962.

One was the famine of 1962 or 1963 in India, and the second was the Cuban Missiles Crisis.