Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-02-11
Role Like Hungory's
Seen Costro's Aim
BY WILLIAM r. FRYE
Contributing Writer

Contributing Writer
. UNITED NATIONS, N. Y.-Fidel
Castro OF Cuba continues to be a
bone in Uncle Sans throat and
a. serious divisive force in the
Western Hemisphere.
All last week, Castro's lieuten-
ants in the United Nations have
been seeking propaganda revenge
Tor his being ostracized by IA
Latin American states at Punta
del Este.
Some of the Cuban propaganda
has been pretty ridiculous, as for
example the charge that crowds
which welcomed President Ken
nedy to Bogota and Caracas last
December consisted entirely of
soldiers in civilian clothes ordered
onto the streets to cheer.
= other accusations, however,
have been taken more seriously.
. One is that Cuban freedom fight
'ers have been taken into the reg
, ular United States Army for thor
oughgoing invasion training.
6 The net effect of the Cuban
COMPREHENSIVE is hard to assess.
Castro has been getting scant
space in United States papers. He
has won little Communist
sympathy in the U. NJ, so far as
can be detected from the usual
; barometers.
80 But Castro is not primarily in
-terested in sympathy from the
! U. N. He is trying to spread FL
delismo from the Rio Grande to
= the tip of Argentina.
Comparison With Hungary
=. =. He is trying to do in the Ameri-
cas- what free Hungary would
have done to Eastern Europe, and
in a sense what Yugoslavia has
to some limited extent done there.
He is trying to popularize and
spearhead dissidence.
> On this basis, the terms ode
feat, and victory" have new
meaning.
There are many in the United
States who would have Uncle Sam
do to Cuba what Russia did to
Hungary. One major difficulty,
however, is that this might not
succeed in crushing communism
in the hemisphere.
1t might, indeed, give commu-
nism tremendous new impetus
everywhere except in Cuba. 1t
might dislodge the bone at the
cost of tearing open the throat.
The United States does not have
the equivalent Of Red Army
poised elsewhere in its sphere of
Influence to crush sympathy up
risings.
O Meanwhile, however, the alter
native to force-a drive to con-
tain and throttle Castro-is max
ing disappointingly little progress.
Secretary of State RuSk was able
only by extraordinary efforts to
avoid a major setback at Punta
del Este. y
United States Delegate Adlai E.
Stevenson is Tending off the Gu
ban attack in the U. NJ, but that
is all. His is strictly a defensive
operation.
1t consists largely in lofty dis
'datn-the feigned indifference of
q man whose ankles are being
'nipped and the seat of his pants
torn by a dog so popular with
the neighbor children that he does
not dare to give it a swift kick.
Gets MIG Fighters
Thus Castro survives and grows
stronger. He has received at least
SO MIG Jet fighters and perhaps
as many as 100. He is repeatedly
setting up missile bases, and in
general absorbing 500 million
worth of Soviet-bloc military aid.
BY now, Cuba may we'll be the
third strongest continental power,
after the United States and Can
ada.
Castro is the direct cause of
dispute between Washington
and Ottawa over Canadian Cuban
trade. Canada continues to trade
with Castro in non-strategic goods,
and is reluctant to abandon the
exchange. The United States is
urging that it be abandoned.
q" The Canadians argue that, since