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Show King Demands President Call OAS to Sift Red Cuba Action Ren. David S. King has urged the President to demand an immediate im-mediate review by the Organization Organi-zation of American States of the evidence of communist intervention interven-tion in the Cuban crisis. In an address to the House. Mr. King praised the President's declaration that this country will stand firm agains further communist com-munist penetration in this hemisphere. hemi-sphere. The congressman declared: "The President's warning reflects" re-flects" the mood of the American people. He has voiced their determination. de-termination. "He also has wisely reminded our neighbors in Central and South America that the stake in the Cuban crisis is their freedom and not ours." Mr. King said a communist beachhead in this hemisphere is a much greater and more imme diate threat to their sovereignty and to their aspirations of self-determination self-determination than it is to ours. He advocated that the President Presi-dent demand that the Council of the Organization of American States convene its peace committee com-mittee immediately to examine the evidence of communist intervention in-tervention in Cuba, in violation of the Declaration of San Jose. "In my judgment, the technicians, techni-cians, the jet fighters, the tanks and the other arms which the Soviet bloc has given the Castro forces do, in fact, constitute intervention." in-tervention." A finding of intervention or of a threat of intervention, in violation vio-lation of this pact, would consolidate con-solidate the American states in their resistance to red penetra- . tions, and would greatly aid the President's hand in standing up to aggresion, he said. |