Evening star., 1960-07-24
KremIin's S Missiles
Rattle Frequently
BY EARL H. VOSS
Star Stad Writer

Soviet Premier Khrushchev's
threat to pepper the United States
with nuclear rockets if this coun-
try moleStS Cuba is merely one
more in a three-and-a-h -half-year
string of miSsile-rattling menaces
from Moscow.
Memories are short, of course,
and the Kremlin practitioners of
psychological warfare count heav-
lily on this. They also deny making
any threat" in the very next
paragraph after they have made it.
But a quick examination of the
record shows that since November,
1856, the Soviet Union has threat
ened. Is countries with nuclear
destruction on more than 40 occa-
sions. These are specific threats
against individual countries, and
do not include the countless times
the West in general has been
threatened.
Nations threatened besides the
United States include Denmark.
France. Germany, Greece, Iceland,
Iran, Italy, Japan, the Neither
lands, Norway, Pakistan, Sweden,
Turkey and the United Kingdom.
The Khrushchev threat to pro
tect" Cuba was not the first
against the Unied States. Nor was
it the most formal.
On September 10, 1858, during
the Chinese Communists offshore-
island bombardment, Premier
Khrushchev had this to say in a
letter to President Eisenhower:
Il must tell you outright, Mr..
President, that atomic blackmail
with regard to the Chinese Peo-
pies Republic will intimidate neiz
ther us nor the CPR. Those who
harbor plans of an atomic attack
on the CPR should not forget that
the other side, too, has atomic and
hydrogen weapons and the appro-
pirate means to deliver them, and
if the CPR falls victim to such
an attack, the aggressor will at
once get a rebuff by the same
means. To touch off a war
against peoples China means to
doom to certain death sons of the
American people and to spark off
the conflagration of a world war"
Confirmed in Porlioment
And as recently as January ID,
1860, the Soviet Premier was re-
minding the USSR Supreme So
Wet:
After the launching of Soviet
artificial satellites and cosmic
rockets, which demonstrated the
possibilities of modern technology,
the fact that the United States is
now in noiway less vulnerable mil
itarily than any other country has
firmly entered the minds of the
American people. I believe that
nobody will suspect me of trying
TO intimidate anybody by such
words. No, this is the actual state
of affairs, and it is evaluated in
this way not only by us but also
by Western statesmen, including
statesmen of the United States
itself"
The pitch of Soviet threats
heightened after the U-2 spy plane
was doWned near Sverdlovsk. Then
Premier Khrushchev warned that
the Soviet Union would retaliate
with "shattering blows" against
any nation which permits Amer
lean planes to take off from its
bases to fly over Soviet territory
When the American RB-47 later
was shot down, allegedly over So
Wet territory, however, the So
Wet Union did not make good on
Mr.. KhruShchev's threat.
He said in a speech May %:
THE Soviet government once
again warns the governments OF
all countries on whose territories
American military bases have beer
set up that should raids, intru-
sions, or attacks on the Soviet
Union be carried out from those
bases, we shall certainly reply
with all the means at our disposal
and will deal a crushing blow tc
those bases"
After the alleged RB-47 "intru-
sion" over Northern Soviet terri.