CubaMissileCrisis Adlai Stevenson Princeton '22

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2735   11 years ago
Adlai Stevenson Princeton '22 - addressing the United Nations on the Cuban Missile Crisis. President Kennedy appointed Stevenson as the Ambassador to the United Nations; he served from 1961 to 1965…. His most famous moment came on October 25, 1962, during the Cuban missile crisis, when he gave a presentation at an emergency session of the Security Council. He forcefully asked the Soviet representative, Valerian Zorin, if his country was installing missiles in Cuba, punctuated with the famous demand "Don't wait for the translation, answer 'yes' or 'no'!" Following Zorin's refusal to answer the abrupt question, Stevenson retorted, "I am prepared to wait for my answer until Hell freezes over." In one of the most memorable moments in U.N. history, Stevenson then showed photographs that proved the existence of missiles in Cuba, just after the Soviet ambassador had implied they did not exist.
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