Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-10-23
CUBA
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planes based in Canada bombed
automobile plants or even
Washington"
Two Cubans were killed and
IS wounded in the attacks
Wednesday. The Cuban air
force said at the time that the
intruding planes - which es-
caped-dropped no bombs, and
witnesses suggested the casual
ties resulted from the automo-
bile gangs or from soldiers fir
ing wildly at the planes.
U. S. Checks on Planes
The United States State De-
partment said it had no infor-
nation on the identity of the
planes but that efforts were be-
ing made to determine if they
came from the United States.
The department said:
1--WE have officially requested
from the Cuban government on
several occasions any informa-
ton or evidence which it may
have about anti-Castro flights
the Cubans charge originate in
Florida. We have not yet
received from the Cubans any
useful information on these al
legged flights.
Mr.. Castro charged that Mai.
Pedro Luis Diaz LAM, former
chief of the revolutionary air
force who fled to the United
States, was a passenger on one
of the bombers which appeared
over Havana on Wednesday.
Waving his arms wildly, Mr..
Castro asked how it was pos
sible that the United States,
with its advanced technical
equipment, is unable to inter-
cept planes headed to bomb
Cuba"
Raps "War Criminals"
He declared Cuba should
have the right to try pilots
caught in the United States at
tempting to bomb this country.
There is no explanation for
allowing war criminals to be
admitted as exiles and be per-
mitted to operate freely against
the Cuban government" he
said.
The Prime Minister also
raised the question of a con-
nection between the aerial raid
and the United States Senate
Internal Security Subcommit-
tee, before which Maj. Diaz
LAM appeared to accuse Mr..
Castro of being a Communist.
Mr.. Castro said his former
air force chief was an "honor
guest of pro-Trujillo Senator
Games g. Eastland," the Mis-
sissippi Democrat who heads
the Senate subcommittee.
What relation does that
committee have with the bomb
ings?" he asked. Il consider
they have responsibility in
these things, at least the re-
sponsibility derived from the
presence of war criminals in
the United States"
The prime minister also at
tackled the United States-Cu-
ban commercial agreement of
1908, calling it a law of the
funnel" with the United States
pouring and Cuba receiving.
He blasted the United States
also for opposing the sale by
Britain of jet fighters to Cuba.
Cuba has no tutors of any
kind" he declared. I'VE are a
grownup nation"
But Mr.. Castro, who got a
warm reception during a tour
of the United States in April,
said he was not attacking the
American pepole, despite the
anti-Cuba press campaign in
the United States" He said
Americans do not believe the
papers.
Three Branded Traitors
Max B. Allen, president of
the American Society of Travel
Agents who are meeting this
week in Havana, was in the
teleview audience. Mr.. Castro
invited him to make a few re-.
marks. Mr.. Allen apologized
for not being able to speak
Spanish but in English con-
graduated Mr.. Catsro for his
tourist program and said, I'VE
enjoyed ourselves while here"
Mr.. Castro also attacked