ROGERS CITES NEW FIGURES IN CUBAN SHIPPING

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• Document Creation Date: December 15, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 9, 2004
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• Publication Date: April 23, 1963
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vaslon. He is opposed to a blockade. He is
opposed to hit-and-run raids mounted from
American soil. He is in favor of "greater
stress on nonmilitary measures," and he
wants to exert increasing economic pressure
so that the Soviets "will, be driven to the
conclusion that the price of maintaining a
base in Cuba is too high." '
This is the same story which the admin-
istration is telling. Senator KEATING'S dif-
ferences are not in the substance of the
text but in the editing, the typography, the
layout, and the captions, The Senator; like
the President, excludes in present circum-
stances the resort to war-invasion block-
However much we are impatient and frus- spur of competition. Another sound objec-
trated we have to grasp the fact that Cuba tive was the ending of animosity between
is no military threat to the United States France and Germany. These things have
and is not very much of a threat to Latin now been done.
America. The worst of Castro is his example Curiously, the most significant steps to-
and a long way after that such agents as he ward free world unity were taken in the
is able to train and infiltrate into the Latin immediate postwar period, when emphasis
American countries. He Is an affront to our on Europe was amply justified by the need
pride, he Is a nuisance, he is a mischief- to fend off chaos. At Bretton Woods in 1945,
maker, But he is not a mortal threat to the we laid the foundation for a worldwide
vital Interests of the United States, and monetary order, In 1948 we convened the
therefore, in this age of thermonuclear war, countries of the free world to establish the
we must deal with him by measures that are multilateral tariff-cutting procedures of the
short of war.
General Amt
greeen on Tariffs and Trade
known as GATT. With the point 4 pro-
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ade, and raiding; like the President he too THE
would deal with C
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by surveillance co
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tainment, isolation, economic pressures, and
propaganda.
There is no doubt that at least for some
time to come the Kennedy-Keating policy
will leave the Soviet troops 90 miles from
Florida. This is an affront to our pride.
Not since Napoleon III put French troops
into Mexico to enthrone and support the
Emperor Maximillian has anything like this
happened so close to us. In the end the
French troops went away. But, because there
was no prudent alternative, Lincoln put up
with the Bonapartist troops for several years.
How long must we put up with the Russian
troops? The honest answer is that we must
put up with them until they can be gotten
rid of by measures short of nuclear war.
Here is the sticking point in the argument
with Governor Rockefeller and Mr. Nixon.
They sound, they intend to sound, as if they
know a way to get rid of the Russian troops
promptly without waging nuclear war.
What is this prompter way to make the
Russians go away from Cuba? They do not
tell us, but the most reasonable interpreta-
tion of what they say is that the prompter
way is not to make war but to threaten war.
Both Governor Rockefeller and Mr. Nixon
have avoided saying plainly what they do
g
am n the early 1950
s, we gave direct aid
NEED FOR RESHAPING U.S. to the developing nations. Those programs
TRADE POLICY have not been matched by any comparable
(Mr. REUSS s'(at the request of Mr. efforts since the midfifties. European .1w-
AL(Mr was granted gionalism has had top priority in our foreign
permission to policy. Ironically, as Europe came to need
extend his remarks at this point in the less of our concern and the free world more,
RECORD and to include extraneous we gave Europe more and more and the free
matter.) world less. In effect, we turned our backs
Mr. REUSS. Mr. Speaker, in an article on the larger goals and, as a result, little
appearing in the forthcoming issue of progress toward them has been made since
Harper's magazine, I have appealed the promising postwar beginnings.
an end to America's Preoccupation with needed aebetter system oft international world
pay-
Europe and a redirection of our policy meats. But we were unwilling to goato
toward the broader goal Of a free world France and other prosperous European coun-
community. tries and frankly ask for needed help. So
The text of the article follows: we staggered along with monetary arrange-
AMERICA GETS AN UNEXPECTED BREAK ments that have remained at best precarious.
Likewise we recognized that the develop-
(By HENRY S. REUSS) ing countries needed economic assistance.
Instead of cursing De Gaulle, we ought to But until very recently, we allowed the Euro-
thank him for compelling us to reexamine peans to drag their feet on foreign aid. And,
the goals of our foreign policy. For the past although we paid lip service to the principle
2 years we have uncritically supported the .of Multilateral, liberalized trade, we hailed
Common Market, although it was bound to the Common Market, with its obvious dis-
impair free world trade by discriminating criminatory features, as a great progressive
in favor of the insiders and their former step,
colonies, and against those on the outside Strangely, hardly anyone questioned the
looking in. assumptions that led to our single-minded
Our vision was warped. For, in fact, since concern with Europe. In the Great Non-
Wnrld War TT
th
an a community of tilt entire Common market was encouraging a Euro-
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United States can deliver an Utlimatum 'ree- World. In such a community, the in- bean particularism rooted in the ancient
which the Soviet Union will bow to. dustrialized countries-Weste E
dreams o f
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urope the
y of Charlema Dt
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If this is not what they mean, What in
n United States, Canada, Australia, New Zea- Henry IV, at just the time in history when
the name of commonsense- an 1-1 Tom...,,.
as iu Nowt within their own borders. world generalism,
ought to 'be bold enough to talk plainly to They would also work toward the removal THE DISHWASHER GAP
their fellow Americans. of trade barriers which separate them from
The Rockefeller-Nixon position appears each other and from the developing nations. To understand how great a mistake this then to be that Cuba can be liberated by And they would seek a mechanism of inter_ was let us see just how the Common Market
ordering the a,,,i
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