PAINFUL DECISION MUST BE MADE ABOUT CUBA

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP67-00318R000100780056-2
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 23, 2016
• Document Release Date: May 17, 2013
• Sequence Number: 56
• Publication Date: May 1, 1961
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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Editorial And Other Comment:
Must
ainf ul De~isi?11
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Be Made About Cuba
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~Y b~.QfCuba by Cuban rebels,
The recent happenings Cuba may be # _el
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may more significant,'an we think for a new whose organization is claimed
line,of though American foreign policy been co9 Car~ tell~MU' close
may lry
have commenced. gericy, me the daninternero s! affairs
.
our goverment.
into Latin atry by
o
forman
based on morality but the Cuban episode the e . Their legal basis
suggests our possible withdrawal from this f or the lcrushing oflthe p ple's revolution
% line of thought. was the. Warsaw Pact. Each Communist
Our new thinking may a tough and country& Europe is a member of the pact
unvirtuous policy solely for the preserva- and in its constitution is the right for one
tion of democracy re g this strategy country to assist the other, in time of
th
0
mmunist tactics. emergency if called into the fzacas by
to' be best to coon n we must follow
roubled ""~;intrY?
If this be our policy, government of the troubled",
course, the pact and cons itutiOtl were in
that policy and beaccept the consequences stigated by alas Soviet on for the pur-
they may be.
whatever,
_ pose of a legal right to interfere into the
internal affairs of an6Uer country.
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Such was not the case in Finland in aboutiostile government un-
1939 and in Hungary in 1956 when the our sh duly state first attacks
Soviets openly intervened into these coin less
tries. The result of these two events exeeA The Soviet Union was
eU League of Nations in
brought much world disfavor. Mr. I 1939 it ;hacked little Finland-a
hchev now undoubtedly believes his b ~ s er than 90 miles from Russian
ntry
s
.,,
The Comm1st penetration of another co
Americaoughout the world by an
--
w s and dedicated group reason for justify thee United States teems
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coordinated invasion of
unscrupulou~
ple set on world domination from i
po cyma ers. ? this Communist outpost only 90 miles rom
among American to protect our
alarThm rough subversive tactics directed 'by our shores. But the right
st on land which is not ours
the Soviet Union we've seen the fold
thof own e has been rquestioned by world opinion*
the Communigt world grow. Though Soviet Union has been intimately involved They question the justness of the Mon-
in numerous revolutions, the Soviets have roe Doctrine. By what authority, they say,
been able to avoid the charge of interven- can we claim the American continent ? as
tion into the internal affairs of another cl x own to protect and control? Does not
nation in many eyes of the world because t_^e territorial jurisdiction of the united
as a state it has never officially declared 3, tes end three miles out to sea?
intervention. This orld opinion is dubious
tion to protect by force
coo
strategy for world domination is re
on undetected subversion. soil. fl ovIets claimed Finland was be-
ing by 1izi Germany and for its
tion trey attack was justified.
It is with these tactics thatt Amn own {
policymakers must contend. Our p r- 956 Soviet tanks rumbled into
ces in foreign policy have .been
of Budapest to squelch the