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`` The American press clamored for many days promising President Kennedy would reply to the most vital domestic and foreign problems confronting the United States.

In fact, the world heard nothing but sabre-rattling, the same exercises which proved futile for the predecessors of the current President.

If there were no West Berlin problem, imperialist quarters would have invented an excuse for stepping up the armaments race to try to solve the internal and external problems besetting the United States and its NATO partners.

Washington apparently decided to use an old formula, by injecting large military appropriations to speed the slow revival of the U.S. economy after a prolonged slump ''.