SOVIET TROOPS STILL IN CUBA

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• Publication Date: April 3, 1963
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.A 1998 - CONGRESSIONAL RECORD
policy will be applied to the Department
of Agriculture's role of providing factual
quotations from the report:
Tho commercial vegetable index dropped
8 percent during the month.
The March index (for dairy products) was
3 . percent below a year earlier and lowest'
for the month since 1956.
Lower prices for eggs and commercial
broilers dropped the index 1 percent dur-
ing the month to 155.
I point out these instances of declin-
ing farm prices as a means of explaining
the continued decline of -the farmer's
parity ratio and more specifically; the
farmer's income. I do this for the pur-
pose of keeping the record straight as to
the tea 'effect of the administration's
.farm olicfes.
Soviet Troops Still in Cuba
EXTENSION OF REMARKS '
' HON. STEVEN .B. IDEROUNIAN -
~- OF NEW YORK -
TN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
.Monday, April i, 1963
Mr. DEROUNIAN. Mr. Speaker, the
following editorial appeared recently in
the Paris .edition of the N~,ga.,;'Yo3?l~.I3sr~
a~d.~I~buz~e. Under leave to extend my
remarks; I''am pleased to call to the at-
tention of the- House the ,Herald Trib-
une's excellent commentary on the con-
tinued presence of Soviet troops in Cuba.
A ~L7;Rif'YeX(~:PRSSFItI-~tAT,1i~R
A not-so-funny thing happened on the way
to no place at all this week.
At his news conference, President Kennedy
was' asked athree-part question. Did the
administration have accurate information on
the number of Soviet troops actually with-
drawn from Cuba? 'Was Mr. Kennedy satis-
fled with the rato of withdrawal? Was-there
any arrangement with the Soviets fox?.'veri-
flcation of the withrlrawal7 ?NO," said the.
President, "tho answer to your question
would really be 'No' to all of .them." He
grinned. The' reporters broko into laughter.-
And that was that.
It may have been a clever way to handle
an embarrassing question, but the answer---
ox? at least its implications-didn't strike us
as particularly amusing. Or reassuring.
The situation in Cuba is'certainly better
today than it was last October, before Mr, '
Kennedy forced tho Soviets to dismantle
their offensive missile bases. But it's far
worse than it was a year ago, or 2 years ago.
And ono of the principal rehsons is the con-
tinued presence of those Soviet troops which,
tho President acknowledged, are not being
.withdrawn at a Paco he considers satisfac- .
tort'. Nor are l:Ixost other Americans likely
to consider the pace satisfactory.
The tx?oopa may not be preparing to in-
vade Miami, but they do constitute a clear
and present danger to the hemisphere. They
are in Ouba precisely because it suits Mr.
Khrushchov's purposes to keep them there.
-And we ail know what his purposes are.
Khrushchev, CiASI%r0 and Co. "aim t0 sub-
sphere and we have recently been treated- it is pointed. out, that "in Poland, per capita
to some expert. testimony by, CIA Director power output increased tenfoldl' There
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Latin American countries went to Cuba in
196& for training in such subjects as sabo-
tage and guerrilla warfare. Soviet "tech-
nicians" can play a major role In such train-
ing; they also bolster tho Castro regime
against threats from the Cuban people. And
as long as they remain, the possibility re-
mains that "Mr, Khrushchev might Clandes-
tinely reintroduce his missiles.
Whatever their activities in Cuba, we can
be sure of one thing: we-the free nations
of the hemisphere-are the target of those
activities. Mr. Khrushchev didn't send his"
troops to the "Caribbean for a: holiday, and
he isn't keeping -them there to sgare them
a Moscow winter-
The Reds'=What IVow?
EXTENSION OF REMARKS
of -
In this connection, it may seem strange
that I suggest that you study the March-
April 1963, number oY Mission. Thin, mini-
ature magazine is a publication of Bishop
Fulton J. Sheen. In pointing out the Com-.,
munist persecxxtion of the Catholic Church,
it dwells conspicuously on Red Poland,
We are reminded that Cardinal Wyszynski
suffered several years in prison, that 91
priests were killed, 260 disappeared without
trace, and that 550 were deported. We are
also told that 2,133 Catholic churches were
closed. We learn, too, surprisingly, that two
priests were sent to prison for 3 years for.
translating Bishop Sheen's own books into
Polish.
Excellency is not concerned with any
pa. tical or economic aspects in giving 'us
his review." But we as laymen and as
American citizens can soberly ask ourselves:
What sort of friendly "imago" is the United
HON. EIDVVARD J. DERWINSKI
OF ILLINOIS
IN THE ROUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES-
LVednesday, April 3, 1963
Mr. DERWINSKI. Mr. Speaker, the'
Brooklyn Tablet, the weekly publication
of the Roman . Catholic Diocese of
Brooklyn, N:Y., is one of the most re-
spected and effective publications of this
nature in the country.
In it? issue of March 28, it carried an
article by Louis F. Budenz which em-
phasizes the obvious fact that aid to
Red Poland strengthens Moscow.
In view of the proposals in this year's
foreign aid bill which have just been
made at the insistence of the adminis-
tration, shoyring extremely favorable
consideration to Poland and Yugoslavia,
I feel this article is extremely timely,
and I insert it into ?the RECORD at this
pointy ,
- THE REDS-WHAT NOWT-AID TO RED POLAND
-STRENGTHENS MOSCOW
(By Louis F. Budenz)
Praise for foseph Stalin as "a good
Marxist and good Communist," uttered by
Khrushchev in -early March, to be under-
standable, must be .linked up with a big
Kremlin endeavor. As highlighted iu the
February International Affairs, ,this is the'
re-creation of Stalin's victims, the captive
nation, into economic battering tame
against the West. '
The aim of the enterprise, as set forth
in that issue's leading article, "Council for
Mutual .Economic Aid ilrxd the Six," is to
provo "that the .planned socialist economy
is superior to the 'coordinated' capitirtilist
economy." The narrative covers the al-
leged .differences between the Rod-ruled
Council for "Mutual Economic Aid and the
European Common Market. It i& naturally
directed against us. '
. ~ RATES FIRST
The first of Stalin's victims among the
.captive nations, Poland,. now. 'allegedly
stands highest as an .agency to destroy the
freo world economically. Oi 273 industrial
enterprises,. constructed in "the- Socialist
countries" with Soviet technical assistance,
States creating for itself, as some newspa-
pers suggest, by giving favorable trade treat-
went and support by aid to this atheistic ,
Communist regime2 -
The answer -was furnished last year by
Wiadyslaw Gomulka himself. He should
know, for he is the head of the Polish Com- ?
munist Party and the Red Polish Govern-
ment. Gomulka has given an interview
which was bitterly anti-American. The
Worker of July I6 and 22 published it in
full, and I invite you to look it up.
SUPPORTS K.
In the interview, Gomulka started right
ofP by saying: "If it depended on the Soviet
Union only, the prospect for peaco would be
very bright indeed." But he showed that the
United States was the other big factor
in the international scene and that It in-
dicated no desire for peace. From thence on,-
he supported item by item Kixrushchev's de-
mands on the free world. He raised aloft
tho banner of peaceful coexistence, implying
that America opposed such an idea.
Gomulka knew Lull well that peaceful co-
.existence had been the slogan under which
Poland had been taken over by Stalin in
agreement with Hitler. I have in my hand
at this moment No. 9 of the Communist
.International for 1939, tho predecessor as
directive giver of the World Marxist Re-
view.
There w? have the speech of Premier V.
M. Molotov of the Soviet Union on "Tho .
Meaning oY the Soviet-German Nonaggres-
sion Pact," in other words, the Hitler-Stalin
alliance. His ch1eP thought is expressed
thus: "In our foreign policy toward non-
Soviet countries, we have always been. guided
by Lenin's well-known principle of the peace- ?
ful coexistence of tho Soviet state and of
capitalist countries."
So it was, that peaceful coexistence was
the excuse for the betrayal of the West,
-jxxst as it was for every other major Soviet
move, In a word, as Gomulka knows, .
peaceful coexistence constitutes that favor-
able cover under which Soviet power can
best advanco at any particular period.
The great weapons of tho socialist bloc"
against us economically are to be. i,wofold,
says International Affairs. They are great '
joint electric power and~oil pipeline 5ysterns
through all the Red-ruled countries and
regimented trade with the West.. Socialist
trade will gain because of its stable prices,
which means ttxe cheap results of slaw labor.
It is no wonder that. the Worker of March '
17 advertises many Rod Polish products along
with East Germari~exports as though they
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