SOVIET CUBA

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• Publication Date: March 7, 1963
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MAR 711963
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1963 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD - SENATE
There being no objection, the article I?r, Gnus disagreed with the regents' de- [From the Washington Post, Mar. 4, 19631'
was ordered to be printed in the RECORD, cisibn and accepted an offer to go to Harvard No PEACE WITHH CUBA
as follows: as professor of government. At Harvard, Dr. Peace in this hemisphere will not be secure
Gaus reputation continued to grow and was as long as Castro rules in Cuba. That is
GADS, MAN WHO SAVED POLITICAL SCIENCE, Culminated with his election as president of the meaning of the events of the past
VIS`TS UNIVERSITY AFTER, 16 YEARS the American Political Science Association. er they relate to disclosures of
(By Elliott Maraniss) In June of 1961, Dr. Gnus retired as pro- meek week role-whethetheyi subversive forces of
Prof. John M. Gaus, the man who saved lessor emeritus of government at Harvard nCuba's in eighboring countries or to the movement
and returned with his wife to a farmstead in
the political Dutch elm science disease in dying the e groves o of f m ac airrelevancy- , the lovely dairy and forest country in the of Soviet personnel from Cuban ports. No
e- one will ever be sure how much subversiop
demo ha-3, returned to the University of was born in New York State, where he is going on and, in spite of the eftlcacy of
Wisconsin campus, was born 68 years ago, the grandson of Ger- aerial surveillance, no one can be certain
Dr. Gaus: will spend a week here visiting man imThere? Dr. migrants: Gnus said in an. Interview Mon- how large are the remaining Soviet forces.
his old classes In public administration, anon, re- day, perfect laboratory for The regime in Cuba is one with which Its
gional planning, and political theory. he has found-a neighbors will not be permitted to live in
his lifelong interest in the interaction of
Among, political seisamsts n South peace. The threat to the security and peace
Ball, this had aroused the same kind of ex- city and country. will rise and fall as their own precautions
I really don't know-what kind of society
torianni that would k found among his- are extended or contracted. There is every
f Frederick Jackson Turner suddenly a we are are comthousandsing of into," people Dr. who Gaus live In. said. "theTh ere open present ind.cation that no country can af-
shhowed up u
p at old Bascom. country, yet are city oriented in their work ford to allow its guard to relax.
In the opinion of Prof. James McCamy, one and their As long as Cuba remains a center from
f
recreation."
of Dr. Gaus' ports this week, the comparison Dr. Gaus said the rae
trol>olitan areas of '4. 1 is appropriate. the country are faced with "tremendous
"Professor Gaits is to political science what problems" presented by tlip profound
Turner was to llisti:ry," Dr. McCamy said changes in distribution of the American pop-
Monday. elation, not only in terms of space but also
"He took it our, of the law books and put In terms of employment and technological
it Into life, among the people and in the development.
communities in which they live. He said He remains hopeful, however, that the
government is not just statutes and consti- problems will be solved.
oples, but people dealing with other "It's amazing how people will respond to
people.,, a really objective, factual diagnosis of what
For 20 memorable years between 1927 and Is going on if you put it to them in human
1947 the Wisconsin campus and the Badger terms," Dr. Gaus said.
State were the vineyards of Professor Gaus' Putting things in human terms Is what
fruitful labors. Dr. Gaus has been doing all his life.
A graduate of Amlerst College with a mas-
ter's degree and a doctorate from Harvard, he
came here to become part of an Amherst SQ1rYr+m r,;mA,
triumvirate which n ade an imperishable Ml'. K + '1 T Mr. President, the
contribution to Wisconsin's rise to greatness. &..Z~=
Dr. Alexander Meikeljohn had been presi- Wasnrngton Post has published two very
dent of Amherst, and Dr. Walter Agard had fine editorials dealing with the problem
been an Amherst classmate. Dr. Gaus hap- of Soviet .Cuba. While it is believed by
pity responded to their invitation to join Government officials that last fall we
them here in establishing the famed Expert- were successful in forcing removal of
mental College. Dr. Agars taught the first- Soviet intermediate and medium range
Gaus year course
D missiles and bombers, it is now recog-
taught in the Greek second nd-ya-ear r and course in n
American civilization. nized that the Soviets are continuing to
In those years the Wisconsin Idea-putting maintain a powerful military base in this
the resources of the unite lty in the service hemisphere.
of the people of the State-provided a perfect The first editorial, published on March
basis for Dr. Gaus' ideas:,, about political 4, strongly affirms:
science. Peace in this hemisphere will not be se-
Gov. Phil LaFollette named him executive cure as long as Castro rules in Cuba. " * .
secretary of the Wisconsin ;State Planning The regime in Cuba is one with which its
Board, an advisory board oask slators and neighbors will not be permitted to live in
citizens, charged with the task of "making peace.
a continuing inventory of the. State govern-
ment and its functions and suggesting ways The second editorial this morning Js
as to how the State may operate more effl- still more explicit. It suggests that the
ciently and economically." , distinction between defensive and offen-
Together with Robert Goodmrtin, who later sive weapons may have been erroneous
mbecameission, F. Lc F. L. Sennse nthebrennerer, tlie president presidedentnt or largely a semantic one. It then calls
of Kimberly Clark, Charles W.;.,Nash, then for an end to recriminations over the
president of the Nash Motor CQ., Dr. Gaus past and a recognition that Castro's
and his bo rd made many. important recom- Communist regime in Cuba is a very real
a far-sighted plan for the uses ofl the State's regime in its vicinity. ters about the date when the administration
forest resources. With that view I am in full agreement. decided that the Soviet arms buildup was
As a member of the Madison area Plan- Our concern must he with the danger offensive in character and so dangerous as
ping Council, , Dr. Gaus helped 'devise an to require the strong measures that were
orderly plan for, the growth of the`;'oity. Soviet Cuba, poses at the present mo- taken. The charges that the administra-
In every one of those 20 years Dr. Gnus ment. This is a much more important tion knew of the offensive character of the
was tiro object of flattering and bountiful of- issue than what the situation may have weaponry long before it disclosed its knowl-
fers from rich and famous universities such been in the past. edge and acted on It is essentially political
as Harvard and Chicago, but he turned them These editorials clarify the perils of in character. If the charge ever Is proven
all down, saying "Wisconsin is where my the present situation and, in my judg- true or false it will leave the future quite
heart belongs." unaffected.
meat, emphasize the need for a firm and
Ironically, it was during one of those dark effective policy to.meet the problem, a Perhaps the administration erred in try-
periods when the Wisconsin spirit altered policy which, so far as I know, has not ing to make a distinction between defen-
temporarily that Dr. Gaus finally left here. _ been made evident. sivo and offensive arms. Certainly it is a
In 1947 the board of regents refused to ap- very difficult thing to do. The argument is
I ask unanimous consent tohave both largely a semantic one. The antiaircraft
point Prof. Howard J. McMurray McMurray thad the pad editorials printed following my remarks.
tical science faculty. Dr. weapons, the defending fighters and the
served a term in Congress and had sought There being no objection, the editorials antimissile missiles are defensive In one
political office as a Democratic candidate two were ordered to be printed in the RECORD, sense of the word. They are, at the same
other times while a member of the faculty. as follows: time, components in any offensive weapon
It cannot expect the United States or any of
its other neighbors to make any firm pledge
against the invasion of Cuba. The day may
arrive when these belligerent operations will
reach a level of military significance to which
there will be no appropriate response but
military operations. To make sure that
this pitch of activity is not achieved in total
secrecy the scrutiny of operations on the
island must be maintained at the highest
level. -
The Western Hemisphere must live in dan-
ger while this situation persists. The pre-
cautions necessary to contain this threat are
so onerous, disagreeable, and unsettling that
the United States will he under continuous
pressure to take arms against this sea of
trouble and end It. Were there any as-
surance that it could indeed be ended by
extreme measures, it would be harder to
resist such counsels. There is, however, no
assurance that even this dangerous alterna-
tive would end the crisis. It might only
start a greater crisis.
There is no easy escape from the Cuban
nuisance. There is no present alternative
to the mnaintenance of a high state of readi-
ness for extreme action-i. continuous scrutiny
of Cuban measures for signs of increasing
hostility, an, unremitting readiness to de-
fend any threatened country in the hemi-
sphere. All that we can be sure of for the
moment is that as long as this regime lasts,
there can be no real peace.
[From the Washington Post, Mar. 7, 19631
PAST AND FUTURE IN CUBA
What is going to be done about Cuba to-
morrow is a' question of - such pressing
urgency for the survival of freedom in the
Western Hemisphere that it Is too bad to
see It put into eclipse by a debate over what -
was done about Cuba yesterday.
The Intellectual resources of the adminis-
tration and of its opponents, unfortunately,
seem to be going chiefly into the controversy
about the past. No aspect of this debate is
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