Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-10-29

ANOI SHHShS
ment in support) said it is
not so and that satisfied the
President. But now in the
midst of election campaign
ing he discovers Gromyko
lied - two missile bases ap-
pear set to go and others
are in the course Of prep
aration - and so he has Or
dered a quarantine. With the
fat in the fire Cor is it?).
will there be the usual COM
premise accepting Russian
terms?
Joseph N. Nielsen.
i Il M%
Is our enlightenment Of the
Soviet Union with military
bases and our boosted abili-
ty to deliver nuclear war
heads to that nation justi-
fled by the same set of prin-
ciples which has led us to
commit ourselves to acts OF
war in our determination to
prevent m is sile bases from
being built in Cuba?
Do we insist that our mill
tary bases encircling the So
Wet Union with missiles more
powerful than those located
in Cuba are defensive, while
the erection of such missile
bases in a nation which has
already been attacked by a
military force financed and
trained by the United States
is offensive?
What would have been our
reaction had the Soviet
Union threatened to sink
, Am erican ships carrying
weapons to foreign nations
which might have been con-
sidered a threat to Russia?
Would we have agreed to the
right of the Soviet Union to
search and turn back any
American ship on the high
seas, the right which we are
asserting against the ships Of
all nations?
Would this be any more
justifiable if the Soviet Union
were to blockade only nom
democratic nations to which
we send military aid? Are we
most disturbed by the fact
that there is not a free gov
eminent in Cuba or because
Cuba is not on our side?
How does our devotion to
freedom for all men har-
monte with our own arming
of non-democratic nations
which we then call a part of
the free world? Does mill
tary alignment with the
United States automatically
make a nation free?
Can we not demonstrate to
the world our firm adher-
ence to universally applied
principles which we will apply
to all nations equally and
which will be as morally JUS
tifiable as our present act Of
war against Cuba and the
Soviet Union may be mill
tarily justifiable?
John w. Laney,
Minister, Twinbrook Baptist
Church, Rockville, Md.
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Missiles speak louder thar
words. Especially missiles
that have been delivered ano
set up ready for action
Beginning with the Presi-
dents speech I listened tc
words and more words, late
into the night, in regard tc
the Cuban situation, its Seri-
BUSINESS and its implications
One cannot deny these facts
and must accept them, but
what one cannot understand
or accept is how these par
ticular types of missiles, anc
quantities, could already be
in Cuba, set up for action
and no one aware of it unit
after the fact?
The Presidents action II
"quarantining" Cuba is sure.
ly the right step, but doesn't
it come latter the horse ha!
left the barn.?
b Where were our intelli.
gence agents when these of,
fensive weapons were being
loaded and unloaded? And il
these agents had been where
they should have been, coulC
we not have begun oul
quarantine" before we hao
nuclear warheads aimed al
us?.
I find it completely beyond
comprehension that our Gov
eminent has been so gullible
and naive as to have &C.
tually accepted Russia's word
that only weapons for de-
Tense were being sent to
Cuba.
What is our Central In
telligence Agency? Merely a
name, and not a fact?
Andrew L. Myers.