Evening star., 1962-10-24

LCILUut CICCI PGo gfO" WV
speech United States Chief
Delegate Adldi E. SteUenSon
made in the United Nations
Security Council yesterday on
Soviet arms in Cuba:
I have asked for an emerg'
ency meeting of the Securit!
Council to bring to your atten'
ton a grave threat to thu
Western Hemisphere and to tht
peace of the world.
Last night, the President o.
the United States reported the
recent alarming military de-
velopments in Cuba. -.
In view of this transforms
ton of Cuba into a base fol
offensive weapons of sudden
mass destruction, the President
announced the initiation of q
strict quarantine on all offen-
sive military weapons under
shipment to Cuba. He did SO
because, in the view of my
Government, the recent de-
velopments in Cuba-the i'm
portation of the cold war into
the heart of the Americas
constitute a threat to the peace
of this hemisphere, and, indeed,
to the peace of the world. >.
Mr.. President, II years ago
the representatives of 81 ma
tions gathered in San Fran
cisco to adopt the charter OF
the United Nations.
The ink was hardly dry on
the charter before Moscow
began its war against the world
of the United Nations.
Within this council, 1t has
thwarted the majority will 100
times by the use of the veto.
The record Is clear: Treaties,
agreements, pledges and the
morals of international rela-
tions were never an obstacle to
the Soviet Union, under
Stain. -.
Maintain Basic Drives
Chairman Khrushchev has
altered many things in the
Soviet Union. But there is one
thing he has not altered-and
that is the basic drive to abol-
ish the world of the charter, to
destroy the hope of pluraliStic
world order. He has not altered
the basic drive to fulfill the
prophecies of Marx and Lenin
and make all the world Com
munist. -.
Together with our allies, we
have installed certain bases
overseas as a prudent precau-
ton in response to the clear
and persistent Soviet threats.
In 1859, 18 months after the
boasts of Chairman Khrushchev
had called the worlds attention
to the threat of Soviet long
range missiles, the North At
lantic Treaty Organization
without concealment or deceit
-as a consequence Of agree
ments freely negotiated and
publicly declared, placed inter-
mediate-range ballistic missiles
in the NATO area. The war
heads of these missiles remain
in 4the custody of the United
States, and the decision for
their use rests in the hands of
the President of the United
States of America in asSocia-
ton with the governments
involved.
I regret that people here at
the United Nations seem to
believe that the cold war is a
private struggle between two
great super-powers. 1t isn't a
private struggle; it as a world
civil war-a contest between
the pluralistic world and the
monolithic world-a contest be-
tween the world of the charter
and the world of Communist
conformity. Every nation that
is now independent and wants
to remain independent is in
volved, whether they know it
or not
Time to Act
The time has come for this
council to decide whether to
make a serious attempt to bring
peace to the world-or to let
the United Nations stand idly
by while the vast plan of
piecemeal aggression unfolds,
conducted in the hope that no
single issue will seem conse-
quential enough to mobilize the
resistance Of the free peoples.
For my own Government, this
question is not in doubt. We
remain committed to the prin-
ciples of the United Nations
charter and we intend to de-
fend them
The foremost objection Of the
States of the Americas to the
Castro (Cuban) regime is not
because it is revolutionary, not
because it is socialistic, not be-
cause it is dictatorial, not even
because DR.. Castro perverted q
noble revolution in the interests
of a squalid totalitarianism. II
is because he has aided and
abetted an invasion of this
hemisphere-and an invasion
at just the time when the hemi-
sphere is making a new and
unprecedented effort for eco
nonic progress and social re-
form.
The crucial fact is that Cuba
has given the Soviet Union a
bridgehead and staging area ir
this hemisphere-that it has
invited an eXtracontinental
antidemocratic and expansion
ist power into the bosom of the
American family-that it has
made itself an accomplice ir
the Communist enterprise Of
world domination.
There are those who seek tc
equate the presence of Soviet
bases in Cuba with the pres
ence of NATO bases in parts Of
the world near the Soviet I'm
ion.