MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFOBD. OREGON
SUNDAY. SEPTEMBER 23. 1962
A 7
Cuban Uprising
Hopes Doomed
By Red Build-Up
UPI Latin American Editor
The massive Soviet build
up in Cuba has effectively
doomed what hopes Cuban
exile leaders may have had
for an internal uprising.
If during the Pigs Bay in
vasion of April, 1961, Cas
tro was able to round up
more than a half -million
Cubans (one ouv of every
12) as a precaution to head
off any simultaneous inter
nal uprising, the added
strength in arms and men
(including foreigners) he
now possesses increases his
capabilities in this respect.
Cuban exile leaders have
always professed to be able
to handle the fall of Castro
alone ("this is a matter for
Cubans alone to handle" as
exile chief Miro Cardona
puts it) and have confined
their demands for aid to
arms and equipment.
U. S. 'Obligated'
"If the Soviets are per
mitted to arm and equip
Castro, the U.S. should be
obligated to do the same
thing with its fellow be
lievers in democrac y,"
Miro says.
In truth, however, Cuban
exile leaders have long
sought a continent - wide
"front" against Castro.
It is known that at least
six Latin American nations,
and perhaps as many as 11,
have more or less committed
themselves to just such a
front. These include, it goes
without saying, the five
tiny Central American Re
publics long a Castro target.
(Such nations as Guate
mala, El Salvador, Costa
Rica, Nicaragua, for ex
ample, have little chance to
escape a Castro grab should
it be made in earnest. All
have been at one time or
another targets for Castro
subversion.)
Would Join Front
In addition, Venezuela
and Colombia likely would
Join any common armed
front against Castro. How
ever, most of these nations
would condition their arm
ed cooperation on U.S. par
ticipation in such an of
fensive. Cuban exiles believe
without doubt the U.S. will
cooperate in such a coordi
nated continent-wide effort
to oust Castro communism
from the New World. The
exiles believe, in fact, that
U.S. public opinion in this
respect is far ahead of the
professed administr a 1 1 o n
caution with respect to
forceful handling of the
Cuban problem.
(It doesn't take a magi
cian to guess Castro's pres
ent frame of mind. The re
cent tiny attack on the in
significant port of Caibari
en, in Central Cuba, was
enough to touch off a gen
eral alert throughout Cuba.
Censorship was imposed and
foreign correspondents - al
ways regarded by Castro as
"spies" - were rounded up
until Castro determined to
his own satisfaction that the
one-boat attack was not the
prelude to invasion. He took
similar precautions last
April.
General Uneasiness
(Other Castro indications
of general uneasiness over
the building internal situa-
. tion are his recent orders
returning farm lands in
some provinces to farm own
ers from whom they had
. been confiscated under the
io-called Agrarian Reform
law.
(Also, despite the wide
spread "cheating" on food
rationing, with small farms
selling their produce direct
to the consumer. Castro has
confined himself to simple
admonitions that such was
not a "revolutionary" atti
tude. In the past, with Cas
tro's power unchallenged,
such "cheaters" would have
been promptly clapped in
jail - at least.)
Nevertheless, these fac
tors do not encourage a be
lief that an internal upris
ing can topple Castro. Exile
leaders privately admit that
the best they hope for is
ever - increasing sabotage,
ranging from inefficient
work to apathy toward so
called revolutionary proj
ects. This could be develop
ed, they reason, into full
scale passive resistance at
the time of an invasion.
Spearheaded by Exiles
They hope the troops in
any invasion will be spear
headed by Cuban exiles -from
all ranks of political
thought and not just the
anti-Batista factions, as in
April, 1961.
And there should be
token contingents from the
United States and perhaps
as many as a dozen western
hemisphere nations.
There are more than 100
Cuban exile groups in the
United States. The great
bulk of them, however, are
organized under aegis of
Cuban Revolutionary Coun
cil headed by Jose Miro Car
dona, former Castro cabinet
officer and a leader in the
civil struggle against Batista
in the years preceding Cas
tro. Are Well Organised
Cuban exiles are well or
ganized but the huge num
ber of such organizations
renders them virtually im
potent individually as far as
any effective action against
Castro regime, either ' po
litically or militarily is con
cerned. Several of the exile
groups, although loosely
linked to the council, are
operating on their own. The
student revolutionary direc
torate, for example. The stu
dents have carried out the
sea raids. Other major exile
groups also working within
the council, but also out
side, are the revolutionary
unity group, the Christian
Democrat movement, the
revolutionary recuperation
movement, etc.
At least two of them are
out after blood. The recup
eration movement is "en
listing" or making a roll-call
of exiles young enough and
willing to fight with arms
and the students are acquir
ing ex-torpedoboats, etc. for
raids.
Land Small Groups
The recuperation move
ment also has been landing
small groups of infiltrators
in Cuba over a period of
many months.
All sources from within
Cuba - including foreign -agree
that Cuban people, by
and large, have had a belly
full of Castro, but that any
armed urising within Cuba
to topple him is highly un
likely. Just too many arms
in hands of Castro army
men, militiamen.
State Dept. estimated at
end of 1961, for example,
that Russians had furnished
Castro 30,000 tons of arms
and weapons and equipment
valued at $100 million. You
can imagine what total is
now what with open Soviet
Cuban admission stepped-up
shipments, and landing of
men with Soviet equipment.
Agencies Seek Interest in PWP
Two Medford agencies, the
YMCA and the Guidance Clin
ic, are seeking Indications of
interest in the formation of
e "Parents Without Partners"
organization in this area.
The PWP is a national or
ganization with a number of
local chapters, devoted to mu
tual help and guidance of par
ents who, through divorce or
death, no longer have a spouse.
A classified advertisement
in this and two subsequent is
sues of the Mail Tribune so
licit expressions of interest, in
addition to those already ex
pressed. It says:
Duncan Neorng End of
Week-long Campaign
Scottsburgh. Ore.-'lPi'-uem-ocrat
Robert B. Duncan, can
didate for Congress in the
fourth district, ended a week
long campaign swing in Coos
and Douglas counties, includ
ing visits to industrial sites.
At a speech earlier in
Powers he criticized those
who fail to exercise their
right to vote. "Those who will
not participate in making de
cisions which govern us have
no right to complain though
frequently they complain the
loudest," he said.
Parents Without Partners:
Whether you have your chil
dren full time or 'on visita
tion' wouldn't you like to
know others in the same post
tion to talk over common
problems, to develop a fuller
life for both yourself and your
children, to hold group discus
sions with psychologists, law
yers, etc.? We'd like to hear
from you. Drop a card to the
Medford 'YMCA' or Guidance
Clinic, Courthouse, Medford."
Neither the "Y" nor the
Clinic propose to organize or
furnish leadership for such
group, but are offering their
services to see if there is
enough interest to justify such
an organization, and to pro
vide assistance if a group h
formed.
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