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Show Cuban "invasion". A Latin-American expert discounted dis-counted the prestige-loss in Cuba, however. He asserted South Americans, who are more influenced by philosophical philo-sophical forces than by even economic ones, recognize Castro Cas-tro as a Soviet puppet. This, coupled to their opposition to overseas intervention and imperialism, im-perialism, puts them decidedly on our side of the fence. He painted a picture of Western solidarity on the North and South American continents, singling out the major powers as leaning heavily heav-ily toward the United States in the world-wide conflict of ideas. Though Cuba was on virtually vir-tually every tongue, the Asiatic Asi-atic troubles were aired at length. One speaker expressed the opinion the "most important import-ant single statistic in the world today" is that rural China offers of-fers but 1.8 acres per family whereas even crowded Japan has twice that much. China's "growing pains", its Communistic and Imperialistic Imperial-istic government, its lack of natural resources and need of food for a skyrocketing population popu-lation are focal points of the impending powder keg. The Chinese have demonstrated their refusal to be dominated by becoming the first nation to dispute the Kremlin's self-proclaimed right to rule. A speaker labelled Asia as the greatest area of Communistic Commu-nistic activity on the face of the globe, notwithstanding the Congo and Cuba. Somewhat prophetically, he added the observation ob-servation that Russia is worried wor-ried about the growth of Chinese Chi-nese power and acutely aware that there is no love lost between be-tween the two races. China's acquisition of the atomic weapon, weap-on, a resigned certainty, clouds the Asiatic future. Observers lamented the expenditure ex-penditure of almost $300 millions mil-lions in a lost cause in Laos, but offered no explanation for the lack of intelligence that the Laotians were not willing to fight. And just a trace of opposing thinking was indicated indicat-ed by back-to-back statements that (1. This is no longer a competition com-petition for men's minds but for men's bellies. Or (2. You don't make an ally out of a man's stomach you have filled with rice. In fact, you're likely to get a well-fed and tougher Commie. Freely conceded was the view that the guerilla type warfare in which Communists have engaged thus far would be continued. And that the so-called so-called "cold war" was going to be reckoned with for some time as well. It was simple to "read between be-tween the notes" and come up with the obvious observation that our country has much to learn about the conduct of such a type of conflict. The Congo? We seek to see a dispute solved and are hopeful hope-ful the UN and the Congolese will come up with some suitable suit-able plan. Laos? If we could get the powers to agree to let it alone, perhaps the country could solve some of its own problems. Algeria? Even tho the French government dealt successfully with the insurrection, insurrec-tion, it has disclosed how much of its armed might France has thrown into the struggle and how weak it is left at home. The powder keg to become increasingly vital Angora. More lives have been lost here than in the Congo and Cuba combined and the Portugese government has dealt severely with its subjects in this strife. In summation of these statements, state-ments, an observer commented: comment-ed: "This is the toughest struggle strug-gle we've ever been in. It's lethal and our very survival is at stake. But I think we can meet it and defeat it!" (Next: Problems and developments de-velopments in other areas, including NATO, space, foreign for-eign aid, educational exchange ex-change and "selling Amer-I Amer-I ica" to other lands). |