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Show The Cuban invasion has become be-come a Cold War and U. S. foreign for-eign policy crisis. It looms as a grow'ing U. S. political issue too even though politics became obscured ob-scured by the Cuban crisis this week. There was the victory in the New Jersey Republican gubernatorial guber-natorial primary of former Secretary Sec-retary of Labor James Mitchell, which is interpreted as a victory by strong liberal forces within the GOP over their more conservative con-servative counterparts. The nomination nom-ination of Republican Mitchell and of former Democratic Judge Richard Hughes to succeed out-fminf out-fminf Governor Robert Mevner ed by events, also urged a rigid policing of the Caribbean and Atlantic by the U. S. Navy and Air Force to keep the flood tide of Soviet military aid from going go-ing to Cuba to strengthen the Castro dictatorship. They would have air dropped Cuban exile paratroops and supplies sup-plies to anti-Castro rebels in the Escambray mountains before risking an invasion by sea. Those opposing the now discarded dis-carded "soft approach" realized there would be both diplomatic and military .dangers in a bold policy. Militarily, it was argued that Castro could not withstand a well prepared Cuban exile drive mounted against Castro and supported sup-ported by the U.S. The failure of the premature, ill trained invasion in-vasion has, instead, strengthened Communism and while commando comman-do style raids by Cuban exiles may continue to rake the Cuban coast, few exiles really see the mounting of another invasion attempt for some time to come. It was realized that a larger, open U.S. role in overthrowing Castro would run the risk of Soviet threat, but the U.S. can not live forever under threat of Communist "blackmail diplomacy." diplo-macy." If the Soviets were not bluffing, it was argued that it might be better to run a risk of Soviet retaliation before Communism Com-munism grows militarily stronger, strong-er, and even more bolder than it already is. Criticism of U. S. allies, the Afro-Asian world, even of some Latin neighbors and the pious sets the stage for the first real test in November of President Kennedy's popularity and of Republican Re-publican strength or weakness following the GOP's close 1960 defeat. The forging of a strong Republican Re-publican liberal and pro-administration Democratic coalition in the Senate has emerged as a hardy rival of the GOP conservative conserva-tive Southern Democratic coalition. coali-tion. Republican liberals, who tend to look toward New York's Governor Nelson Rockefeller for leadership, may now hold the balance of power in the Senate and the key to Kennedy Administration Admin-istration hopes for passage of liberal legislation. Conservative forces, led by Arizona GOP Senator Goldwater have also seen their growing strength in th GOP challenged by former Vice President Nixon active re-entry into politics and by Nixon's and Rockefeller's public support of President Kennedy's Ken-nedy's tough Cuban policy. This columnist strongly believes be-lieves that a chief reason for the growing popularity of Senator Goldwater and his policy among many unexpected segments of the country (notably college and youth) is the consistentuy strong anti-Communist position he has taken. outcry of the butchers of Budapest Buda-pest should have been relegated to secondary importance long ago, where basic U.S. self interest in-terest was so obviously at stake, 90 miles from Florida. Since the U.S. would be criticized anyway for an exiles only invasion, it might as well have given more effective support from the start to help it succeed. President Kennedy has now, at last, and with the open support sup-port of all Americans, enunciated enunciat-ed a policy of American self interest first, at least as far as Cuba goes. The hardening of the U.S. position po-sition on Cuba is expected to lead to a hardening of the U.S. position posi-tion on the Congo, Laos, Berlin, A-testing and the whole Cold War, political effects of which are obvious. Only a few eeks ago the White House was continuing to woo Khrushchev, and uneasiness over the world situation could be reflected re-flected only in growing minority for the Goldwater firm stand. It is one thing to be vindicated by events. It is another for Mr. Goldwater to, in effect, have his Cold War program "stolen" from him by his political rivals. Firmness toward Communism now is the popular political theme and Goldwater has lost some of his unique political appeal ap-peal and political power because he no longer stands alone. His time may come again, but that remains to be seen. Long before the celebrated collapse of the summit confer-, confer-, ence and U2 spy plane incident during the Eisenhower administration, adminis-tration, Goldwater stood sometimes some-times alone in opposing "Co-existence," "the Spirit of Geneva" "Spirit of Camp David " Khrushchev's Khrush-chev's visit to the U.S. and softness soft-ness toward Communism. In doing do-ing so, he has reflected a growing grow-ing public uneasiness over the Congo, Laos, Cuba, Berlin, etc. Long ago, Goldwater also began be-gan campaigning against Cuban Communism under Castro, denounced de-nounced the "soft" U.S. policy toward Castro which hoped that given enough rope, Castroism would hang itself, or that the Cuban masses would rise up and overthrow the Fidelists if the U.S. did not intervene. ) The failure of the recent in vasion attempt has focused general gen-eral attention on policies advocated advo-cated recently by Goldwater, and few others, which were unpopular un-popular only a few weeks ago but now, suddenly, are almost generally accepted. Before the Cuban invasion he urged, for example, a drastic trade embargo against Castro, instead of the loophole ridden limitations in effect since Cuban and American diplomatic ties were severed. He urged all out economic war against Castro, greater U. S. military training of and logistical support for Cuban Cu-ban exiles seeking to return to return to their homeland and, if necessary, use of U. S. Marines to overthrow Castro since, he argued, any exile invasion will be blamed on the U.S. anyway. He and others, since vindicat- |