Evening star., 1960-06-23

are not responsible for the seriousness of this stu
alton. The ones who sponsoring that interna-
tional measures be taken against the Dominican
Republic are the regimes of certain Caribbean coun-
tries, engaged in true international plot to fence
in the Dominican Republic and internationally iso-
late it.
The groups of Dominican exiles do not, in any
way, reach the proportions of the number that
continually flee from another Caribbean country
toward neighborng zones Anyway, If they create
an international situation, it is due to the allout
support in their SubverSive activities against the
Dominican Government, lent them by certain re-
gineS involved in the international tensions in the
Caribbean area.
1t is unjust and arbitrary for the Peace Com
mittee to state in its June Report that "the
Dominican Government has reacted very adversely
to these Developments. The Committee refers to
ATTACKS in the press, by radio and other means Of
propaganda of the Dominican Republic against the
Governments which have shown sympathy for the
cause of the Dominican exiles."
This statement is proof that the Committee has
neglected to read the wealth of press material
Cuban and Venezuelan newspapers - as well as
accounts of radio broadcaStS from these same
countries, recorded by our Dominican monitoring
stations containing the most virulent and proVoca-
tive attacks against the Government of the Domin-
ican Republic.
picated stage they have reached at present in the
Caribbean area, it is not admissible to examine
them in the light of one-Sided and discriminating
attitudes against certain countries. Certainly, this
behavior does not constitute, to say the least, an
adequate method to try to achieve progressive
relaxation of these tensions.
The moderate disturbances which have oc-
Cured in the Dominican Republic and which
caused, on State security grounds, the imprson-
ment and sentencing of reduced group OF con-
SpiratorS and terroriStS-who, however, are being
magnanimousy pardoned by the Dominican Gov
ernment-are repercuSSonS of the dangerous revo-
lutionary movement, which organized and equipped
with the help of the Venezuelan and Cuban Govern
ments, left from the latter country, to invade the
Dominican Republic in June 1885, in two incur
SionS led by commanders of the Cuban Revolution
ary Army. What would have happened If these
invaSionS had been able to overthrow the Domini-
can Government is not a matter of conjecture, but
of accurate forecast. mock administration sub
servient to the Cuban revolution would have been
set up in the Dominican Republic, thus creating
another dangerous zone of infiltration of interna
tional communism in America.
1t is really inadmissible to pretend that the
repreSSive measures taken by State against polti
cal crimes contemplated and punished by law, be
considered causes of international tension or as
circumstance aggravatng this tension, and con-
Sequently, susceptible to cenSure by international
organizations. Such a pretenSion, would, in the
words of the United States Representative to the
Organization of American States, as set forth in his
statement made on May II, 1860 lead to an "aggra-
vaton and stimulation of international controver-
sizes and tensions"
The Inter-American Peace Committe cannot
expect the Dominican media of public opinion to
remain unmoved before the onslaught of incitations
and provocationS which the means of public opin-
ion of other neghboring countries in the Caribbean
unleash on the Dominican Republic, keeping the
situation in an inflammable state conducive to new
measures acts of intervention against the Domin
lean Republic.
The Dominican Government does not object to
anyone showing sympathy for the cause Of its
political enemies What the Dominican Republic
objects to- and will decidedly continue to object to,
is to have this sympathy result in facts like the
two bloody invasons unleashed against the Do
minican Republic in June, 1859, causing consider
able loss of human lives and property.
If subversive and hostile propaganda consti-
tuteS IAN additional factor of disturbance in the
international relations in the Hemisphere" as
maintained by the Inter American Peace Committee
in its June Report this factor is not exclusively
present in the conduct of the Dominican govern
ment, whose attitude is one of defense against
such propaganda but it exists in all the countries
involved in the international tensions in the
Caribbean.
In view of the above, the Government of the
Dominican Republic cannot accept, and therefore
categorcay rejects the pretensionS of the Inter-
American Peace Committee to place the blame for
the aggravation of the international tensions in the
Caribbean area the Government of the Domni-
can Republic, whether it be with regards to the
fulfillment of human rights with respect to other
contributing factors.