Show R A B S 0 S AUTHENTIC autler ANTIC STATEMENT special to TOE THE EXPRESS igo W blab I 1 BABSON DISCUSSES CUBA babben park mass there are several I 1 volcanoes throughout the world which may explode at any time my travels to berlin last year taught me that the situation there could be the most ser lous tile the one nearest home however Is cuba doth both mr nixon and mr kennedy should visit cuba at it once cuba A close clo neighbor while I 1 am at dabson babson park florida during the winter the webber college students often fly over to havana as a part of their vacations cuba has seemed only a stones stone e throw from any portion of florida cuba is a vital factor for good or evil to to the florida east coast with its fifty great hotels extending north end and south from miami I 1 am not afraid of Flor florala dias s importing any communism from cuba as the florida people are very conservative I 1 seriously fear however that russia may get a foothold in cuba could we afford to let russia get a base in cuba for submarines and launching pads for missiles or on the other hand could we now afford to go to war with russia to pre vent such gradual occupation I 1 leave tilts this to richard nixon and john kennedy to decide after their visit to havana I 1 faither advise them to con suit with governor nelson rockefeller who is one of our best posted men on oil latin america cuba and latin america I 1 have visited all the count ries of central and south america not only are many of these people ruled by die gators but they are very sen like most spanish peo pie at heart they would like to have us keep russia out of cuba and even straighten out affairs in cuba some of these I 1 atin american dictators however might rebind such an attitude on the part of the united states and make us tig appear more than f friends we now hear much about the monroe doctrine which was announced to the world over a hundred years ago by president es id e nt M monroe 0 anro cpr namely that we would not allow any european Fur nation to get a new foothold in any latin amerl ameri can country I 1 believe that the american people would stand for a reassertion of this mon roe doctrine but I 1 wish the latin american countries would ask us to do so the en tire situation Is very ticklish it should be one of the first things for the presidential candidates to consider seri bously the november election may turn upon cuba I 1 speak w with ith authority because I 1 was ws an early supporter of the pan american union US U cuban investments considerable U S money is invested in cuba this include es certain railway and traction properties the cuban telephone company and many mercantile businesses sever at al thousand american faint lies have bet n living in cuba depending upon the krotec tion offered by its closeness to the united states many of f these families directly or in directly contributed to fidel castro in his revolution against batista now the women and children are last fast leaving cuba and the men are undecided what to do much depends upon tile the health of fidel castro and what will be the real attitude of his bro ther in case tile the brother tic bt comes ms m s prime minister ohis tan can only be ascertained by waiting and watching the largest american in vestments are in the sugar lands which of necessity must be operated either by large corporations or by the cuban government it w would 0 uld be sheer nonsense to divide up tip these se lands among small cu ban holders whether dent eisenhower Elsen hower is handling this sugar situation properly by retaliation I 1 do not know such an action greatly helps the sugar producing compan ies outside of cuba as well as our bf bicet et sugar com companies panics one of tile the largest amounts of cuban sugar lands owned by U S investors Is that held by the united fruit company which has 00 90 stockholders in the united states the stock of the united fruit company which I 1 believe to be good is selling close to its lowest levels of the past two decodes decades although I 1 under stand that only 5 of its earn ings inga have recently come from cuba russia wants to get cuba as she is in great need of tropical land and warm water bases but she will not go to a nuclear war to get cuba I 1 |