The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1963-01-17

| owned by Raymond SchfocK that
produced 1888 pounds of milk and
108 pounds of fat
the size of the Soviet War-making
machine in Cuba made it clear that
/ it had been building up for some
months. He admitted that Soviet
warhead rockets in Cuba could
strike almost any city in the United
States. He then proclaimed a naval
quarantine of Cuba to prevent
more bombers and missiles being
landed there. Five days later he
promised that we would not invade
Cuba if Khrushchev would remove
certain bombers and missiles.
Khrushchev agreed to remove the
offensive weapons. and the block
AIDE was lifted
What some people thought was
an immediate threat of war passed
and everybody was glad.
We regret that in the negotiations
there was nothing about redress for
the Castro kidnappings and muir
ders of American citizens, nothing
about the Americans imprisoned in
Cuba on political grounds, nothing
about restitution for the tens of
millions of dollars worth of Ameri-
can property seized by Castro.
We don't know for a positive
fact that all the offensive missiles
and bombers have been removed.
We assume they have, but we can
not know because we have not had
the on-the-spot inspection the
President demanded
The Cuban settlement was no
settlement at all: it was major de-
feat for us. What with our making
Castro more secure than before
with our promise not to invaded,
Khrushchev now has virtually
guaranteed Western Hemisphere
base for his subversive activities
in Latin America. More than $4,000
Russian troops are still in Cuba,
and the Russians, since the U. S.
blockade was lifted, have been
pouring arms into Cuba quite
| openly. Castro seems happy about
the whole thing He is loudly boast
ing that the S53,OOOO0O American
ransom for the Cuban revolution
aries captured at the time of the
abortive Bay of Pigs invasion is
in fact American indemnity for our
bungling part in that fiasco Castro
| is a continuing, and possibly grow
ing, problem.
Defense Weapons-Specific weap-
ons of war have been in the news
recently. The Minuteman, the solid
fuel missile, the first true push
button intercontinental missile, has
been made part of the nations
bombing power A total of $50 of
the 58-foot missiles, capable OF
CARRYING thermometer Warheads
to targets $500 miles away, are be-
ing put in place in underground
si'os in Montana, aimed at specific
Communist targets and ready for
firing at a moments notice. About
300 are authorized, and more are
expected
Development of the Skybolt has
been abandoned by us. much to
the distress of Great Britain. The
United States and Great Britain
had entered into an agreement to
develop Skybolt, an battle-ground
weapon. The Pentagon decided ii
was not feasible. The British gov
ornment objected strenuouslY to
our dropping the project. 1t felt
that our action left the West vitual-
ly without an air arm. Some of our
Air Force felt the same way. And
so did some members of Congress
An argument is that an airplane-
launched missile would constitute
one more weapon against which an
enemy power would have to deploy
his defenses and that a variety OF
threats can be more perilous than
mere volume in one system alone
There may be a Congressional in
vestigation of the Skybolt aban-
bonment
Seven persons were killed in q
Scar crash on big freeway in