Today's Commentary
Peru Takes Action
To Stop Communists
By i’HIL NEWSOM
United Press International
The Peruvian Army is nailing
down the lid on Communists plan
ning to overthrow the government
of Peru.
“OPERATION Cleanup” start
ed last weekend. Army trucks
moved through Lima's misty and
foe-shrouded streets rounding up
hundreds of known and suspected
Communists and carting them off
to jail.
The swift move was made to
nip a plot "planned by the agents
of Moscow and Havana to implant
a pseudo farmer regime of the ex
treme left,” in the words of a
government announcement. 11
said the plot was to align Peru
with Castro’s Communist Cuba
and prepare for the Marxist revo
lution to subjugate the nation for
Moscow.
PERU’S RULING military junta
says early targets of the plot
were to be the American-owned
Toquepala and Marcona Mines
WORLD
FOCUS
UPI-AP REPORTS
. and Standard Oil of New Jersey’s
subsidiary. International Petrole
um Co.
The revolution was to be com
plete by May Day
Almost any Latin American na
tion presents special problems for
the United States ... but per
haps none as dramatically as
Peru.
An example came in August of
1961, when the United States was
setting up its Alliance for Prog- <
ress Program in a meeting of
American ministers at Punta Del
Este. Uruguay. It was Peruvian
Premier and Finance Minister
Pedro Seltran who became the
chief opponent of Cuba's Che Gue
vara.
PERU BROKE relations with
Castro’s Cuba even before the
United States did.
But on a chilly night last July.
army tanks rumbled to the gates
of Lima’s presidential palace, ar
rested 73-year-old President Man
uel Prado, and established mili
tary rule.
Prado had refused military de
mands that he invalidate June
elections which gave the most
votes to moderate leftist presi
dential candidate Raoul Haya De
La Torre.
UNDER THE .Alliance for Prog
ress, the United States already
allotted nearly 90 million dollars
to Peru for new roads, for water
and sewage systems, and for aid
to the program to open up new
lands for Peru’s landless Indians.
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World Mews
IN BRIEF
Satellite Launched
VANDENBERG AIR FORCE
BASE, CALIF. (UPI)—'The Air
Force has launched another sec
ret satellite from California’s
Vandenberg Air Force Base. Al
though the Air Force has adopted
a strict information policy on mili
tary satellites, the new moonlet
may be one of the Discoverer ser
ies.
Police Search OC
OREGON CITY (AP)—Police
searched Monday for a man want
ed for questioning in connection
with the reported rape of an 8
y^ar-old Portland-area girl Sun
day.
it may have some connection
with the slaying of Mona Rae
Minyard, 6, said Clackamas Coun
ty Sheriff Joe Shobe.
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Light and Dark on Tap
1 ne military coup sh uck a diow
at the foundations of the Alliance
for Progress, conceived as a U.S.
answer to threats either from the
political right or left.
PRESIDENT Kenned y de
nounced the coup and promptly
suspended U.S. aid, which brought
this comment from General Ricar
do Perez Godoy, gray-haired lead
er of the military Junta; "What
Washington does not understand
(he said) is that this is a Peruvi
an solution to the problem of
preserving democracy."
By mid-August, the United
States was convinced that the
military men intended to keep
their promise of free elections in
1963. On Aug. 17, the U.S. lifted
the aid ban and recognized the
new government.
As in many another Latin Am
erican nations, unrest in Peru is
chronic.
FEW ATTEMPTS have been
made to bring into national life
the Peruvian Indians who make
up more than half the population
and who scratch a bare subsist
ance from barren, worn-out soil.
They are natural targets for
Communist and Castro elements
which have encouraged them to
seize land violently.
Pedro Beltran did much to lift
Peru by its economic bootstraps
when he served as premier and
finance minister, and. although a
member of Peru's "40 families,”
he pressed hard for land reform
BUT PRADO as president did
not always act with equal strength
and the threat of revolution re
mained. The present situation
puts to the test the military Jun
ta’s claim that theirs is the way
to preserve Democracy.
Meredith May Leave
Rebels of 'Ole Miss'
OXFORD, MISS. (Ul’I)—Negro
James Meredith has announced he
may not be at the previously all
white University of Mississippi
next semester. But, in a meeting
Monday with newsmen, Meredith
added that he is not giving up ef
forts to study at the Oxford, Miss
school.
MEREDITH told newsmen he
will dron out of the University of
Mississippi next semester unless,
in his words, "very definite and
positive changes are made to
make my situation more condu
cive to learning.”
Meredith has been under pres
sure since he entered the campus
the night of Sept 30 Rioting at
that time caused two deaths and
bt ought thousands of federal
troops to "01 ■ Miss."
As recently as Sunday nil'll
crudely printed handbills were
distributed on tlr* campus calling
for Meredith’s ouster. Th-’re have
b^en renorts that Meredith's
grades are suffering due to har
assment.
Monday. Meredith said he
if freed with what he called a "de
termined, resourceful and unprin
cipled" enemy. He added that
even it he should leave school af
ter this semester, he is not giving
"o as he nut it "A bitter war for
the equality of opportunity for
our citizens."
MEREDITH did not specify
what steps m ust be taken if lie is
'Bible' to Criticize King George VI
LONDON (UPI)—The -Bible”
of British nobility, according to a
London newspaper, is about to
criticize the late King George the
1 Sixth for snubbing his sister-in
law, the Duchess of Windsor.
THE LONDON Daily Express
said Monday that the attack will
be in the forthcoming edition of
Burke's Peerage, the authorita
tive publication of British nobili
ty
This goes back to June, 1937,
when King Edward the Eighth,
now the Duke of Windsor, abdi
cated to his younger brother.
George Siv months later, EJ
ward married Wallis Warfield
Simpson, an American divorcee
Bl'RKE'S Peerage, says The
Daily Express, will assail the fad
that King George never granted
the Duchess the rank of "Royal
Highn* ss.” Burke’s Peerage re
portedly will describe this affront
as “rn act of discrimination quite
unique” in British history.
The publisher of the Exnress is
Lord Beaverbrook, a close friend
of the Duke of Windsor
to remain ot the University of
Mississippi University Chancellor
John Williams said lie docs not
know what Meredith is referring
to and, in Williams’ words, "until
1 do I will have no statement
Attorney General Robert Ken
nedy announced in Washington
he hop \s Mississippi and Univer
sity officials "Will take appropri
ate steps" so that Meredith will
he able to remain in school
Defense Still OK
COLORADO SPRINGS (UPI >
The No-th American Air Defense
Command has brand'd as "ridi
-dour" renorts that British bomb
cr>: oenetrated the Norad Defense
Network London newspapers
have renorted British jet bombers
slipped past U S. defenses in a
mock attack
Cuban Crisis Ends
UNITED NATIONS (UPI)
The United States and the Soviet
Union have submitted a joint
statement to the United Nations,
rormall> ending the Cuban crisis
Long negotiations failed to get
assurances of on site inspection of
Castro’s island, so Mr. Kennedy
has withheld his "no invasion"
pledge in the dioloinatic "the
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