Evening star., 1961-11-03
CastrOSuppOrt
Of Red Blasts
Hit in 0AS
By GEORGE E. SHERMAN
star staff Writer

star Staff Writer
Anti-Castro forces in the
hemisphere have seized upon
Cuban support for Soviet nu-
clear explosions as a golden op-
portunity to dramatize how
alien the Castro regime has be-
come to the Americas.
The Council Of the Organi-
zation Of American States is
scheduled to meet here on
Monday to condemn the recent
Soviet 50-megaton bomb blast.
Last week Cuba Joined the
Soviet bloc in voting against
the United Nations resolution
which appealed to Soviet Pre-
mier Khrushchev not to set off
the dirty" monster bomb. No
one here expects a change of
heart in Cuba now that the ex-
ploSion has taken place.
Anger in Hemisphere
OAS ambassadors uniformly |
report great popular revulsion
throughout Latin America
against Soviet rejection of
worldwide appeals. The anger
tranScendS politics and reflects |
fear of the effects of contami- !
mating radioactive fallout, they
say.
The diplomats note that the |
blame is rubbing off on Cuba. |
And the Cuban delegate is
expected to be an embarrassing |
minority of one when the pro-
test resolution comes to a vote |
in the OAS council.
In the words of one Latin
American ambassador: "The
Cuban attitude toward nuclear
testing is in itself one more
test Of the Cuban attitude to-
ward Latin-American opinion.
Uruguayan Takes Lead
Uruguayan Ambassador Don
Carlos Clulow has taken the
lead in formalizing the test
protest. In a letter to the Sec
retary General Of the OAS, he
requested a council meeting to
approve the UN. resolution of
october % and Ito make cate
gorically manifest the protest
of the American nations to the
invasion of air space" by ra-
dioactive elements coming from
Soviet bomb tests.
He was echoing the words Of
his Foreign Minister. Homero
Martinez Montero, who said in
Montevideo on Wednesday that
the Soviet Union has earned
the hatred Of the entire world"
for what it has done.
An informal meeting of Am
bassadors at OAS headquarters
yesterday worked out the form
Of collective protest. Cuba sent
only a non-voting observer.
To Ask Controls
1t was agreed that Uruguay,
Venezuela and Peru are to be
joint sponsors of the resolution
before the Council. Besides
condemning the Soviet tests,
the resolution instructs the
Secretary General of the OAS |
to call upon the U.N. for a con-
trolled ban on all nuclear bomb |
testing.
For its part. the United
States Government is missing |
no opportunity to drive home
its ideas on the Castro danger
to the hemisphere. DeLesseps
Morrison, United States Am
bassador to the OAS, has circu-
lated a note to members giving |
further chapter and verse Of
Castro's adherence to the Sino-
Soviet bloc.
The note contained the texts |
Of two communicates Soviet
Cuban communique and a !
Chinese-Cuban communicate
which eliminated the official
visit of Cuban President Os-
Waldo Dorticos to the East in
September and october.
These communiques show
that the Castro regime is
neither ideologically an adher-
'ent of the inter American |
system nor a part Of the nom
aligned world" Ambassador |
Morrison wrote.
Meanwhile, the General Com
mittee Of the OAS still is try
ing to decide what to do with
Peruvian charges that Cuba is
a threat to the peace Of the
hemisphere, and that it is
Violating human rights.