AN OPENING TO THE LEFT

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• Document Creation Date: November 11, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 18, 1999
• Sequence Number: 128
• Publication Date: November 25, 1963
• Content Type: NSPR

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The Richmond News Leader
NOV 2 5 1963
EDITORIAL PAGE
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CPYRGAn Opening to the Left
The news explodes before the eyes
of millions. We would like to, set aside
today to tell sad stories about the
deaths of kings. But the silencing of
Lee Harvey Oswald, unconfessed, is a
disaster that approaches the disaster
of Friday. Although we live in an age
of international assassination, it will
be difficult to uncover the ramifica-
tions of the plot. There is no reason
whatever to believe that the United
States are immune to the international
Communist conspiracy.
The prime suspect, in our opinion,
is not Khrushchev, who was already
making good progress toward his
goals. The finger points to Fidel Cas-
tro, an old hand at assassination. While
at, the University of Havana, he wove
the nets in three or four assassination
plots; he wove them again at Bogota.
In August of this year, as Castro
rode through Matanzas Province in
an open jeep, a bullet meant for the
tyrant was stopped in the flesh of a
bodyguard. Castro, probably with rea-
son, accused the American Central In-
telligence Agency. Two weeks later,
he recovered his composure to talk to
reporters at a reception in the Brazil-
ian embassy. Every American who
ihourns our President today will want
to read the dispatch as it appeared
in September;
. HAVANA, Sept 9-(J1)-Prinle Minister
Castro said Saturday night "United States
leaders" would be in danger if they helped
in any attempt to do away with leaders
of Cuba.
Bitterly dcnpuncing what he called re-
cent U. s: prompted raids on Cuba terri-
tnry, , Castro told a reporter in_ an inn
promptu interview:
"We are prepared to fight them and
answer in kind. United States leaders
should think that if they are aiding ter-
rorists' plans to eliminate Cuban leaders,
tl cannot themselves be safe."
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as
there is any doubt which leader
tro had in mind, a UPI reporter
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smiled, to say the least, there is ev ment to take afull-page ad In t;hc'
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reason to assllme.that Castro revi
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ideas-boiled up and were laundered
and perfumed for the liberal intellects.
In no time the names of James Bald-
tainly Prince Noroc~om Sihanouk, win, Simone de Beauvoir, Truman
Calrillo la_ ad econcl .thoughts Capote, the Rev. Donald Harrington,
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sane to coil mit such a nrtq e
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The Dallas police believed,th had an Castro's threats against the President. t
'' ht case again stfiiin. the ile- (wee being re orted, Senator Bar-),y
t sg released to the public ere was Goldwater pleaded befor An audience
in N: 'level nd `' he 'radical left poses
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a cold, calculated plan, per forme by a an iixi riedlate'se_r lobs real close to
man capable of a competent job of. the goverfinent, of thew riited States,
work. The amateur gets flustered. The and ere is where we must concentrate
fanatic regicide is eager to be acknowI- ott> tf tlon and attack."
edged in his niche in history. The pro- ? It fs iinf"hai;d to believe that Oswald';
fessional denies ?overything and calls symipathies fell in this slough. The in-
for his lawyer. , Cling' ioi of the Left, at its deepest
Let us cut through the fog of stupe- levels, is to destroy, to overturn civi-
faction and unbelief. Let us make an lization and Tnnrality. It is a destruc-
opening to the left, for that is where tive urge Which poisons American
the motivation lies, Was the suspect, 1'fbera isrn? eve in` its milder forms to-
I.ee Harvey Oswald, really interested day Tyer'ou who knew Oswald tells
in Fair Play for Cuba? A trip through of his dedicatgon to communism, to the
the Fair Play for Cuba Committee is Marxism of Castro. There need have
a t rip through the sewers of the liberal been no hatred lf~,iis heart to perform
ILcft. In the hearings before the Senate the perverted view of the higher duty
Internal Security Subcommittee; there -''air $?laftir Cuba.
appears a parade of Communists, Trot- , Tncrecrib!y, tie world may ne% er
skyites, socialists, bleeding hearts, know.There now will be no trial, nc
pacifists, and pious pornographers. evidence,, no cross-examining of wit-
Here one finds leftist stawlarts such nessenno ence tooCastro doth ptotes
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entireiy on UasLro s viruperaLiuh ui ule,j as rral
o was paid need. $5,
As though with the quick (lis-
late President: "President, Keni?tedy;is by Castro to write Cuba, Prop Prophetic ' patch of the hired killer, Oswald is
the Batista of his time, andb the most Island; Robert Taber, the CBS news
opportunistic American Prosi.q pt of correspondent who recorded favorable ; i;ilenced Jack 'Rubin'stein' rids at
all times ... Kennedy is a cretin, and interviews with Castro in the Sierra _ ' Bed of the most daring crime of the
a member of an oligarchic family that Maestre; Victor Rabinowitz, the civil entury. The shooting of Oswald iii.>
controls several impoftant pests in liberties lawyer whose daughter Joni every patteri of Communist crime:
the government ...Kennedy is think faces, perjury charges in Georgia; Lyle ; but it may be that, in the Wild, we have
of =found in Jack Ruby our fanatiti~ a mast.
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