Evening star., 1962-09-11
COPING With Cuba


but name, it now is Soviet
territory.
Unless the do-nothing-to-
offend-RuSsia policy advo-
Gated by Schlesinger, Rusk,
Rostow, and Ball is scrapped,
Cuba will become an almost
impregnable mountain bas-
ton of Russian military
threat to America. The bold
ness of Russia in sending
troops and ornaments to
Cuba contrasts sharply with
the excessively timid policies
Of our State Department.
If America is to remain
free from domination by an
avowed enemy which seeks
to destroy US. Russia must be
completely cut off from Cuba
by an aerial and naval block
ade. The need is for action.
So-called strong statements
will merely convince Khru-
shchev that the Kennedy ad-
ministration has been par
alyzed by his rocket-rattling
threats Of nuclear war.
The longer America hesi-
tates to act, the stronger
Soviet strength in the West
ern Hemisphere will become.
The survival Of a brave. free
America demands action.
Words will not stop q prac-
tical realist like Khrushchev.
Fear to act never did and
never will win a victory; 1t
only makes defeat more GER
tain and much more bloody.
Hill M. Burch
Here we go again. Each
time Khrushchev makes an
other move we jump as If we
have been burned by an un-
known flame. I'm referring
to Cuba. At the time when
we could have done some
thing positive, we didn't. Now
Indiana's Senator Capehart
wants to call up the reserves
again. I agree, as I imagine
most of the American peo-
pie believe, we have to have
a strong military force. But
I can't understand why we
are doing it in such a hap
hazard negative way.
President Kennedy called
up the reserves last fall to
build up" our armed forces,
and at the same time there
were Notwithstanding increases
in the monthly draft quota.
Now Senator Capehart wants
to call up the reservistS
again. They are being used
like a bunch of bouncing
balls. Why can't we maintain
a larger army, rather than
keep pulling these men in
and out of active service like
a group of puppets?
We had better choose a
road of action and follow it.
Mrs. James Nj. Palme
+ +
Soviet Russia is sending
military equipment and tech
nicians to Cuba but the State
Department said that there
is no evidence of Soviet
troops being sent to Cuba.
But which is more danger
Gus in Cuba-500 machine
gun armed Soviet soldiers, or
so military technicians who
can build missile launch pads
just 80 miles from the United
States coast?
Is our State Department so
naive as to believe that Cas-
tro needs Soviet experts to
teach Cubans how to use ma
chine guns?
Adolfs Blakis.
Madison, Wis.
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AS to what to do about
Cuba, I suggest that Congress
launch an investigation in
depth of United States pluto
Gratis who, through their fl
nancial holdings and deal
ings in Cuba, prior to the
"Children's Revolution" j"
helped impose and enforce on
the Cubans illiteracy, poverty,
prostitution, perversion, star
vation, and every form Of
crime and addiction.
The investigation will not
enable the plutocratS to re-
gain control of Cuba and re-
store the same ceSspool con-
ditions. but will reveal who
and what are destroying the
Western World. 1t will reveal
who and what are sabotaging
the Alliance for Progress. 1t
will reveal who and what are
wrong with the mainland
United States and who and
what make depressions and
who and what are losing the
cold war.
Moreover, If probed to its
full depth, it will reveal how
it is all done. And If the
probe is begun now, and cor
rective measures taken quite
soon. it may be in time to
avert the ultimate disaster.
Hal Annas.
Suffolk, Va.