Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-10-26

of the forthcoming election.
With Congress no longer in
session, with American at
tention directed internally,
they hoped to present a new
Congress with an accom-
plished international victory
of monumental proportions
a Cuba as a gigantic unsink-
able aircraft carrier, bristling
with missiles, set on a ram
course to slice the hemisphere
in two.
But Soviet timing has been
upset by a superbly timed
counteraction, the success of
which is a direct result more
of timing than force much
to the credit of our President.
Sensing a pent-up United
States desire to grapple with
the Cuban dilemma, Presi-
dent Kennedy has deter
mined to do the unexpected
at the unexpected time, some
thing that can be as profit
able in the International
political arena as it so fire.
quently is on the battlefield.
BY an artful sense of tim
ing the President gives this
country the initiative in the
cold war. We are on a new
and promising course!
James E. Mazrek.
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The Presidents speech con-
corning the Russian situation
in Cuba, was an excellent one
and one which most United
States citizens will indorse
Fundamentally.
However, the delay in max
ing such a decision leads one
to believe it was made at this
time for political reasons. It
is hard to understand an ad-
ministration that puts politi-
cal expediency above the well
fare of the country and its
people. The logical time for
effecting a blockade would
have been when the Russians
first began sending troops to
Cuba, but it was claimed that
these men were technicians
The truth is election day was
too far off. Better, still, if
the proper air protection had
been afforded the Bay of Pigs
invasion, this serious situa-
ton probably never would
have occurred.
The President had be e n
campaigning in an effort to
completely swamp all Repub-
lican opposition. 1t is abso-
lutely unbelievable to think
that the Cuban situation
changed overnight.
Now that the decision has
been m a de, it is fervently
hoped that the adminiStra-
ton will waver not one iota
and will follow through on a
complete blockade OF Cuba
and take all necessary steps
to drive the Communists out
of the Western Hemisphere.
The Monroe Doctrine will no
longer be a worthless piece of
paper and our Nation will be
able once again to take its
place as a world leader.
A. L. BealI.
4 + +
The Quarantine" Of Cuba
is commendable but entirely
insufficient, inaSmuch as it
is limited only to offensive
arms. 1t does not apply to
the operational IRBM bases
already established there, nor
does it provide for the fact
that Red Cuba still exists as
a base of operations for Com
munist penetration of the
Western Hemisphere in clear
violation of the Monroe Doc
trine.
Our Governments policy
remains the same: We will
accept this Communist pres
ence If only the offensive
weapons" are withdrawn.
This policy will continue SO
long as the Americans for
Democratic Action" group,
represented by such members
as Adlai Stevenson and Ar
thur Schlesinger, continues in
hig h Government positions,
maintaining the mo VIM
appeaseme 1t approach.
Our security demands as a
minimum the elimination of
communism in Cuba, by
whatever means are neces-
sary at this dangerously late
date.
w. B. Larew, jr.
+ \
What so suddenly changed
the timid mouse into a
mouse with the heart of a
lion willing to spit into the
eye of an elephant and then
jump off the deep end? It
could easily be that the
mouse, during his recent
campaign tours, distinctly