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Show deltind lite JdeadlineA the Cuban situation. It has even been said that Mi-koyan Mi-koyan could hardly wait to rush back to Moscow to devise new strategy for economic competition competi-tion in Latin America, after realizing re-alizing in talks with President Eisenhower that the WhiteHouse had not softened its Cold War policies. What has brought this about? Actually all of this has been the effect of the Castro-Urrutia regime's re-gime's decision to execute many "thousands" of real and alleged followers of the deposed Batista dictatorship. Except for this the Cuban rebels came into power with an enormous reservoir of popular good will in the U. S. But from the moment the regime began its "bloodbath" of far more "war criminals" than were executed for Nazi-Japanese war crimes after the Second World War U.S. Cuban relations deteriorated and only then did talk of intervention interven-tion begin "in the name of justice" jus-tice" and to protect Americans. It would do well for Castro to remember this. It would do him well to remember that the Batista Ba-tista regime, also hailed as "liberators" "libe-rators" when the Machado were ousted, built up ill will from the moment it engaged in "bloodbath" "blood-bath" executions. Castro might remember that Batista also explained ex-plained away his executions by saying "the people demanded them." And Castro could do worse than consider the hero of another an-other present day revolution. Senator Kennedy inadventently brought him to mind when Kennedy Ken-nedy said the U. S. "should keep out of Cuba's affairs." Only a year ago, Kennedy exploded a political bombshell when urging that the U.S. intervene in a re-vole re-vole "in the name of justice" far more distant than Cuba. This was in Algeria. Kennedy was roundly criticized for calling for U. S. intervention then. DeGaulle, brought to power by the French Army revolt, faced a crisis in Algeria at least as perplexing as Castro's in Cuba. But DeGaulle did not engage in "blood bath" executions. History His-tory may prove him wrong. But this week, President DeGaulle thwarted French colonial demands de-mands for vengeance in Algeria. He granted amnesty to thousands thou-sands of Algerian rebels whom he said fought honorably against France and he has moved to end bloodshed in Algeria that Castro has begun in Cuba. The Cuban crisis has brought the United States to the brink of another war in its own backyard. back-yard. Victorious rebel leader Fidel Castro has called Americans "Gringos," the most hated name we could be called in Latin America. He has warned that 200,000 "Gringos" would die if the United States resumed its policy, abandoned in 1934, of intervening in Cuban internal affairs. At the same time, Congressman Congress-man Wayne Hays of Ohio, chairman chair-man of the House Latin Affairs Sub-committee, has been outspoken out-spoken in leading a growing demand de-mand for U. S. intervention. American business interests with tens of millions of dollars invested in-vested in Cuba mining and sugar plantations, are demanding, at least, that Washington give them some protection against nationalization national-ization of their properties. The Pentagon is especially uneasy. un-easy. The Joint Chiefs of Staff is already studying alternate sites for its key Caribbean base for defense of the Western Hemisphere, Hemis-phere, in the event the new Cuban Cu-ban regime demands we surrender surren-der our base at Guantanamo bay. U. S. forces already stationed at Guantanamo bay have been continued on the 24 hour alert put into effect more than two years ago when the Cuban revolt began. A U. S. Navy Task Force including 3000 U. S. Marines is conducting maneuvers in the area, nearer Puerto Rico than Cuba, but it has added to the tension over Cuba itself. All the while, the Soviet Union is seeking to worsen the crisis between Washington and Havana. Ha-vana. Radio Moscow has been stepping up its broadcasts and preaching anti-Americanism to all Latin America in a way that it hasn't been doing since Vice President Nixon was mobbed. While Soviet Deputy Premier Mikoyan has been preaching his good will in the United States, Soviet propagandists, notably Tass, have been disseminating some of the angriest propaganda ever leveled against the U.S. Known Communists in the rebel regime of Fidel Castro and President Urrutia are pressuring for an end to U.S. military aid and it can be revealed here for the acceptance of long standing Soviet aid offers, which could mean a Soviet military mission less than a hundred miles from Florida! Although Castro and Urrutia are decidedly not Communists, the Reds in their entourage are also pressuring for the acceptance accept-ance of Soviet economic aid, a huge sugar-nickel trade agreement agree-ment with the Soviet Union, the nationalization of American investments in-vestments and a pro-Soviet policy pol-icy of "independence from U. S. dictation" in the U.N. The worst effect of the deepening deep-ening crisis in U. S. and Cuban relations is on already bad relations rela-tions with the rest of Latin America. Agitators are already threatening the nationalization of U. S. properties elsewhere, especially in Venezuela, where the U. S. his billions invested in oil and in Brazil, where the economic eco-nomic collapse of the Kubitchek regime would almost certainly bring Communists to power in the largest of the Latin American Ameri-can republics. Russia, already expanding its economic competition in Latin America at a disturbing rate, has been encouraged to step it up after seeing the crisis effect of |
