FURTHER REFLECTIONS ON THE CUBAN CRISIS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000500390014-3
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• Document Creation Date: December 15, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 29, 2003
• Sequence Number: 14
• Publication Date: October 19, 1962
• Content Type: NSPR

Approved For Release 2004/01/16 : CIA-RDP75-00149R000P00390014-3
~j' LETTERS T a,. TH.E, STAR
Further Reflections on the Cuba.
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The President's dramatic -
action res tt stem the Once more, the Communist' 1. w0 suli him have 4 e a' e)#ttile _ol' .
Party of the United States! cow ate wouldLoh" if' PathetiQ edge prick of ready
i0bre to
Communists' offensive build- proclaims itself, 1m udent ? he p4edle prick of Khru.
up against our country in for the
Cuba was also, by the nature to be outside of the national, coWrae t0 . hhchev'r eager, skeins burst.
dommunity. It is an agent of:' At first . let down " ng
of the present crisis, a call a foreign Power, even at the' it the President hsda uld the ',Cuban debacle ~"
for strong national unity.. time when this foreign pow- stopped abort of stronger uld bo tna#tkind5o salvati0 e
America stands in accord er, the Soviet Union, threat- measures, Now I ' un con Let ua ;prove here, as close
with the measures now being ens the very life of our Na. vinced that the President's to home, that we intend to
taken. In the knowledge that tion. decision as to our, course of be toasters of our own "des-?
- drastic though they must Nicolas de Rochefort. action Is. correct. An. imme- tiny. A td oncq, tae pl+0 we
be - they are taken in the . w * * diate invasion of Cuba might can do' that, then Wail
cause of freedom and its de- Women of America, let us ' result in a sufficient blow to will have more ' respect, for
sense, not for selfish aggres- look into the faces of our Soviet prestige that' would our good wishes and good-'.
Sion. Such has been the sleeping babes, stand and cause a violent reaction on will toward all ,
record of the American Gov- '
watch our school children de Its part.. Thomas E. Matti ly. Ma.
ernment throughout the part for school, eager and I Personally doubt that *? * -i
cold war, and such has been full of hope, send our stru - such a reaction would take
the essential unity of our g So Gromyko lied not once
people. sling husbands off to another. place. But I will say this: but twice about missile bases
day of business that ensures Before I am asked to see my in Cuba; a strange thing for
crisis means bipartisanship. member that Khrushchev has like to know that my lead- s R ~ diplomat to des
It does not mean one-party era have Presented to the an. In Reports Cubco have activities
government, but the one-party bym promised he bury thel. Little emy the n Cuba have been coming
grave. void autene reason- in for months, ltgn Lewis'
Bible co-operation of two Look at our babes, our young I ably am to a willing void 'R tag.do eneral wax, to to ut the only' 0otnme t
strong parties. Such co-open- children, and our good men autevertator
strindettQ on the air
ation is denied under the -brothers, husbands is required, without reserva- not
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monolithic system of commu- friends, fathers, fiancee
and , tion as to the consequences.
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"ism, which fears the light vow that they will not stand David M. Woolley. r h ti0t " )'
shed by opposition. Such a ' alonel Let our President' * * e * t detail, Cb
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system is contrary to the know that he need not
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American way. It must not count our manpower -- that realize that as and , in I" ti,
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be adopted In this hour of we. the Women of .m
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WADY the makes me reflect on tae- re-. tnent?_U., pport) add it is
slow to act in the Cuban sit- womanpower of America is cent events in:4"uba
uation, must recognize Its ' solidly behind the President, 'newly anno the' q, id atnd;but sows In he
need of Republicans who the country, our men, and the United ft*. to Sig
midaj) Ot !19 a. ewe
have shown their vision and squarely in front of our chil- gtesal0n, I'm ~-
stability in the fight to con- dren, an impenetrable wall of cane. Will' face` eri s Cammyko
hW' he
twin y in the communism. mothers!" ~ Lied t' o6do banes
ap0nsibility to ourselves and
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Raymond Pitcairn, Sonia M. Lyons. to all freedom-loving - na- ara in the course of prep.
Bryn Athyn, Pa. Wife of a World War II"; tiona, to protect, the tape aration -- and so to has or-
* * * * veteran; Mother of a sal- We hold dear. May God' ,e, dered a quarantine. With the
At this time of trial and dier now overseas, all men who valu6,'e00raey+ fat .in the fire
danger, the American # ? ? + the strength Q1' .lit !t?),
people to preserve the will there! be the >ktial'aatt-
rallied around their President As an Americ,pn I applaud right of freedom. minim
'llwaslan
fly
a
nd Commander-in-Chief. the action taken by the Press terms?
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trusting him, as they should,: dent in the Cuban crisis. Veda Ann 'gdor.
for defending the In should However, as a voter I have a * * * * Jib N` IVkMem
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and assuring the security of Are the lights about * ?
tongue-In cheek?eittitude as to
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the Nation. why, since this Missile build out all over the world again? Is out. encirclement of the
w began in July, action is i r Mankind eternally uat
But the Communist Party the yea or nay jndphenz or. y to and * `nuclear abill
of the United States chose ',because of right and wrong, or? an
this occasion for as chose th0' forthcoming evil. In the Cuban debacle del nuclear war-
edging once more its abicct elections? It is a sad thing we behold go .t t that Mine 1186 `set of prin.
subservience to the Soviets. have been avoided if the ad.. eon of all our Bins: There fe ; comwhich ves led us to
Its spokesman, Gus Hall, ministration had shown the shameh all of sus We ?who war in 0uur determiito ts of
had the arrogant audacity to .necessary gumption last April
nattiion to
send a telegram to the White and had supported that Tuttle cannot for law unity. and prevent
b m i a s i 1 e bases from
House, urging "suspension of and fatal invasion at the Bay within? our town hhand ouseeholldd D.We insist baat our, mill.
all proposals which can ag- of pigs.
all proposals
the danger," and have Presumed to direct the
I. Chapin. destinies of new-born . n&9' Vary bases encircling the
So-
called for a meeting between * * * * viot rfUnion "With uj t es ore and Khru- As I heard the President, ?ions Just throwing off the p ,erb than an those hose iodated
the President ted
hchev. I was swept with a feeling yoke of Primitive despotism.ln Cubs are 4efenafve. while
However slyly cautious the of was swept that I hav We who can't obey our own the erection of such missile
alm wordg, the very do s to not experienced since I ve rules of right and truth have bases in a nation which has
influencing the President's a boy during World War II. become champion and hos. already been attacked by a
actio influencing
and efals Is in- It is possible that a person tags of the impossible andmdi , force financed and
decent at this time, brought up in an environ- perhaps the unwanted In tees trained by the United States
went war e a I Jungles o of Asia and A rfc
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statement. But If President the ruthless terrorism of tf would have. been our
statement. 1..,a ?. .I.._ President
Iron rnrtq in e i A Pert reaction had the Soviet