Evening star., 1962-09-11
PARTIAL TEXT
Soviet Government
Blasts u. S. Fears


men, you are evidently SC
frightened that you are afraid
of your own shadow and you dc
mot believe in the strength o1
your ideas and your capitalist
order. You have been so much
: frightened by the October So
: cialist revolution and the sue
cesses of the Soviet Union
achieved and developed on the
. basis of this revolution, that il
seems to you some hordes are
supposedly moving to Cuba
when potatoes or oil, tractors
harvester combines and other
farming and industrial ma
chinery are carried to Cuba tt
maintain the Cuban economy.
Don't Butt Noses"
i. We can say to these people
that these are our ships, and
that what we carry in them i:
no business of theirs. 1t is the
internal affair of the sides en-
gagged in this commercial trans
action. We can say, quoting the
popular saying: Don't butt your
noses where you oughtn't.
1 But we do not hide from the
world public that we readily
are supplying Cuba with indus
trial equipment and goods which
are helping to strengthen her
economy and raise the wellbeing
Of the Cuban people.
At the request of the Cuban
government. we also send Soviet
agronomistS, machine-opera-
] tors, tractor drivers and live
stock experts to Cuba who share
their experience and knowledge
with their Cuban friends in or
der to help them raise the
country's economy. We also
send rank-and-file state and
collective farm workers to Cuba,
and accept thousands of Cubans
to the Soviet Union to exchange
experience and teach them the
more progressive methods of
agriculture, to help them mas
ter the Soviet farm machinery
which is being supplied to
Cuba.
1t will be recalled that a
certain amount of ornaments
is also being shipped from the
Soviet Union to Cuba at the
request of the Cuban govern
ment in connection with the
threats by aggressive imperial
ist circles. The Cuban states
men also requested the Soviet
government to send to Cuba
Soviet military specialists, tech
nicians who would train the
Cubans in handling up-to-date
weapons, because up-to-date
weapons now call for high skill
and much knowledge. It is but
natural that Cuba does not yet
have such specialists. That is
why we considered this request.
Number Of Specialists
1t must, however, be said
that the number Of Soviet mil
itary specialists sent to Cuba
can in no way be compared to
the number of workers in agri-
culture and industry sent there.
The ornaments and military
equipment sent to Cuba are de-
signed exclusively for defensive
purposes and the President Of
the United States and the
American military Just as the
military Of any country know
what means Of defense are.
How can these means threaten
the United States?
No, gentlemen, it is not this
that alarms you. You your
selves realize all the absurdity
Of your claims that there is
some threat to the United
States emerging on the part OF
Cuba. You have invented this
threat yourselves, and you now
want to persuade others Of its
existence.
1t is the revolutionary spirit
that you fear, and not the mil
itary equipment received by the
Cubans for their own defense.
The government Of the So.
Wet Union also authorized Tas'
! to state that there is no neet
for the Soviet Union to shift
/ its weapons for the repulsior
of aggression, for a retaliotor!
blow, to any other country, fol
' instance Cuba. Our nucleal
: weapons are so powerful IL
E their explosive force and tn
Soviet Union has so powerful
! rockets to carry these nuclea
e warheads, that there is no neet
to search for sites for then
, beyond the boundaries of tn
, Soviet Union.
4 In Event Of War
> We have said and we d
repeat that if war is unleashec
a if the aggressor makes an at
3 tack on one state or anothe
: and this state asks for assist
!. ance, the Soviet Union has tn
> possibility from its own teri
} tory to render assistance t
any peaceloving state and no
only to Cuba. And let no on
doubt that the Soviet Uniol
{ will render such assistance jus
: as it was ready in 1856 to rem
: der assistance to Egypt at tn
i time of the Anglo -French-Is
raeli aggression in the Zue
Canal. region. -.
{ The Soviet Union will no
j. take any similar retaliatory &C
S tons to the Gallup of 10000
: reservists in the United States
S the more so that this canno
be of any serious military i'm
t portance. given up = to dat
e means of nuclear rocket war