Evening star., 1961-04-26
LETTERS TO THE STAR
u S. Policy on Cuba Defended and AssoiIed

Our obvious support of the
military adventure against
Cuba has already cost us
dearly in the estimation of
the peoples of the world.
1t is desperately necessary
that we regain this loss. and
we cannot do this by commit :
ting ourselves even deeper to
a policy of unilateral military
intervention into the affairs
of other countries in this
hemisphere or any other.
How can we. who ham
mered Britain, France and
Israel out of the Suez, reas-
onably defend a policy of
armed invasion against Cuba =?
The loss of Suez by Nasser'S
seizure with, you will re-
call, charges of Communist
domination posed a military
threat to those countries of
much greater consequences
than Cuba can ever assume
to do. Do we practice what we
preach, or only when some
other countries interests are
at stake?
The Presidents policy OF
armed intervention is not
new. If he practices it, he
will merely be continuing a
policy of the prior admins
tration which wasted hun
dreds of millions of dollars
in military fiascos. We would
now be much better off in
Laos if we had used the $500
million spent there to achieve
economic security for the ma
tives, rather than a musical
comedy army.
The failure of the Presl-
dents recent excursion
against Castro made it clear
that Castro has much deeper
support among the Cubans
and other South Americans
than the American public
was led to believe by what the
press printed. Is it the Pres
ident'S view that American
troops will be sent to suppress:
by force any government
anywhere in South or Centra
America which co-operates
with and supports Castro? Il
1t is, we may we'll expect from
the proud and defiant Latir
Americans enough resistance
to keep thousands of oul
troops overseas for many 6
year-and all to no avail.
Alexander BOskOff.
The magnitude of the erroI
of our Governments support.
ing the recent unsuccessful
invasion of Cuba is exceeded
only by that of our error II
assuming that we have tht
right to tell the citizens o.
Cuba how to live their lives
The citizens of the United
States have a moral right tt
determine their own way o.
life. But so then do thu
CubanS have a moral right tt
determine their way of life
The fact that the direction O.
"a way of life" is determined
by a revolution is not un'
usual. Even we in the United
States had our Revolutionar,
War and our Civil War.
ii. Mertz, Jr.
Your article on April 2,
about the Cuban situation
vividly pointed up appallin,
Misrepresentation of tn
K Kennedy Administration
during the last three months
The article reported tina
the Cuban pilot who LANDED
his badly damaged plane il
Miami actually had not de
fected from the Cuban Al
Force a week earlier as w
were led to believe. Actually
he had bombed Cuba from al
airfield in Guatemala in al
attack supported by the Cen
tral Intelligence Agency
Couple this report with 9th
erS that America in no wa,
was arming nti-Castro reb
els and we can see a highl
developed propaganda cam
paign aimed at miSinformin
the entire Nation.
Monumental blunders evel
the size of those COMMITTEES
in Cuba by the Kenned
Administration conceivabl
could be forgiven as homes
mistakes made by dedicatet
men. But these deliberat
Misrepresentation of ou
President and his aides ar
another matter. They reflec
on the honesty and moral
of the entire Administrator
tand of America when seel
by foreign nationS.
The greatness of Americ
was built by candor and hon
eSty.
Lewis M. Helm