Daily Hansan
58th Year, No.63
LAWRENCE, KANSAS
Wednesday. Jan. 4, 1961
Cuban-U.S. Crisis Mounts U.S. Berates Cuba in U.N. . .
Fidel Castro "Cuba Si, Yanqui No."
Military Break Predicted After U.S. Diplomatic Break
Two members of the political science department today questioned the advisability of maintaining the Guantanamo Naval Base after the U.S.—Cuban diplomatic break.
This concern was expressed by both Clifford Ketzel, assistant professor of political science, and Earl Reeves, teaching assistant of political science.
PROF KETZEL said, "It puts us in a rather peculiar position of maintaining a base in a country we do not recognize. The decision of our government to discontinue relations with the Cuban government was probably welcomed in Moscow and Peking."
Mr. Reeves said that there is no sense in operating a naval base in an unfriendly area and if we do not move out it will place us in a "ticklish situation."
Wescoe to Deliver Humanities Lecture
Chancellor W. Clarke Wescoo will be the featured speaker at the fourth Humanities Lecture Series at 8 p.m. tomorrow in Fraser Theater.
"By terminating diplomatic relations with Cuba, we should terminate our military relations as well and withdraw from the naval base," Mr. Reeves continued. "Castro is not obliged to honor the treaty that the U.S. made for the naval base because it was negotiated at the point of a gun. If I were
Bulletin
WASHINGTON — (UPI) President Eisenhower today warned the Castro regime to keep hands off the $70 million U.S. Naval base at Guantanamo Bay.
Castro I could build a good case in the United Nations against the U.S. for the repudiation of the treaty."
LARRY PIPPIN, visiting professor of political science, said that it is still really too early to accurately evaluate the situation and determine the motives behind the break.
"The Latin American countries depend on the U.S. government to exist." Prof. Pippin said. "It is interesting to note that other governments who have broken off relations with Cuba are of types similar to the pre-Castro type of government."
Bookstore Rebates Decrease Due to New Union Addition
The greatly expanded facilities and extra services of the Kansas Union have resulted in a decrease of three per cent in the cash refund dividend offered patrons of the Union Book Store, explained Jack Newcomb, general manager of the bookstore.
The Union Executive Committee, managing board of the Union affairs voted the change yesterday. It will affect only the twenty-eighth rebate period covering purchases from July 1, 1960 to Jan. 1, 1961.
"The total Union enterprise is entirely self-supporting, and the operating costs of such an extensive plant are obviously substantial." Frank Burge, director of the Union said.
Patronage refunds are not guaranteed, and have never been placed at a definite figure. Each six month period is evaluated separately and cashier receipts are valid for five years.
that it was necessary," Mr. Newcomb said.
Weather
"With the new plant, costs are even more extensive, therefore with meticulous and careful scrutiny of all areas, the executive committee voted to apply the sum of 3 per cent of bookstore earnings
"WE DIDN't relish having to cut the dividend offered our customers, but operating conditions were such
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The northeast and north-central Kansas weather forecast is for fair and mild today, tonight and Thursday. Highs today and Thursday will be in the middle 50s. Lows tonight will range from 20 to 30.
UNITED NATIONS, N.Y. — (UPI) The United States said today that Cuba's charge of an imminent American invasion was brewed "from the cauldron of hysteria" and makes the Fidel Castro government appear ridiculous.
Ambassador James J. Wadsworth said the invasion charge was false but told the U.N. security council the United States would follow its tradition of not opposing full and free debate of any charges levelled against it in the United Nations.
He said Cuban Foreign Minister Raul Roa had a record of being "persistent in error."
Roa repeated to the U.N. his charge that the United States planned an imminent invasion under the pretext that Cuba has become an ally of the Soviet Union.
"This is typical of the expiring Republican administration in its foreign relations." he said.
"Cuba is not alone and if its soil is attacked, the revolutionary government and the people will have the support and backing of those committed to defend her sovereignty and territorial integrity."
Roa showed the council photographs of high-explosive bombs with U.S. markings which he said were "North American material airlifted to the counter-revolutionary groups in the mountains" of Cuba.
Roa and two aides had been pelted with frozen snow balls by anti-Castro demonstrators when they arrived at U. N. headquarters for the meetings, and U. N. guards had to rescue them.
Wadsworth, in answering Roa's charges, said:
"Dr. Roa asserts that "there exists a document of the Department of State, circulated to all the foreign ministries on the American continent, in which it is stated that President Eisenhow-
U.S.-Cuban Break Worries Europeans
LONDON —(UPI)— The break in United States-Cuban relations created deep concern throughout Western Europe today and neutral Switzerland promptly agreed to handle U.S. affairs in Havana.
In most countries the Cuban crisis story took banner headlines and pushed the news of Laos off the front pages.
Soviet Ambassador Valerian A. Zorin attempted to cut off Wadsworth's denunciation of the Cuban charge on a complaint that he was out of order but he was overruled.
document. We certainly did not originate any such document..."
er's government is prepared to order a military intervention in Cuba in certain circumstances. The U.S. government knows of no such
Wadsworth said there should be no doubt that "the real attacker is the Cuban government."
"The weapons are character assassination and false alarms," he said. "The target is not just the United States but all those governments of the western hemisphere whose policies the leadership in Havana does not happen to like. And the launching point for this propaganda invasion is right here in the United Nation."
Wadsworth recalled that Cuba had raised the invasion charge before the council last year, that it had been referred to the Organization of American States (OAS) and that Castro himself had demanded action in a four-hour speech to the general assembly in September. Cuba, he said, deliberately ignored two U.S. requests to the OAS to look into the facts and "obviously desires only to build false propaganda fires rather than to have its complaints dealt with within the regional organization."
. . 'Cubans Love Americans'
By Byron Klapper
Three KU students returned from Cuba with impressions of overwhelming friendship by Cubans for Americans, extensive building programs, and a failure of the American press accurately to portray the Cuban situation.
"The people of Cuba love the people of the United States," said Karl Sparber, Vineland, N. J. sophomore, and one of the three students who visited Cuba. "This was evident wherever we went."
"We stopped in the town of Jaguey Grande and 5,000 people were waiting for us. As our bus stopped they swarmed around us cheering and applauding, yelling and shaking our hands as we stepped out of the vehicle.
"EVERYWHERE we went they met us this wav." he said.
"The press never told exactly what the agrarian reform was and the various aspects of it, such as giving small plots of land to individual farmers, and the establishment of co-ops.
Paul J. Bowlby, Long Beach,
Calif., graduate student said that
the United States press is not
telling the truth about what is
going on in Cuba.
"It didn't explain the urban reform, the low rent apartment housing, or the abolishment of the landlord class, and also that the Cuban government is not doing business with Russia and Red China only, but also with Belgium, France and England," Bowley said.
"In Havana they are building like crazy," reported Sparber. In East Havana, modern housing projects are already completed.
"Wherever we went there were new housing projects and the people are being charged anywhere from 7 to 15 per cent of their wages to live in them.
Sparber said he observed that the people had great faith in what Castro was doing for them.
"WE WENT into a small fishing village on Cuba's north shore where the people were living in small filthy shacks. You wouldn't believe it unless you saw for yourself how terrible these living conditions were. Yet they were still very much for Castro because he
built a school in that village and they believed he had plans to improve the village soon.
BOWLBY SAID that the transportation in Cuba was arranged by the Institution for Friendship of All Peoples but this group acted as an aid and imposed no restrictions on where they could or should go.
"We rented a car and saw our first co-op farm at Matanzas, unannounced we did the same thing for Ciudad Libertad (Freedom City) and Old camp Columbia.
"I talked to dozens of people and met only two who were dissatisfied with the revolution and one was a pimp under the Batista regime and this is no longer fervently practiced as before," Bowlyb said.
The KU students were among the 350 American students who went to Cuba from Dec. 23 to Jan. 3, under the sponsorship of the Fair Play For Cuba Committee.
The trip, which included round trip fare from Miami, and room and board in Cuba for ten days, cost the students $100.
. Cuba Holds Hate Orgy
HAVANA — (UPI) — The Castro-controlled Cuban press and radio launched an all-out hate campaign against the United States today, denouncing the break in relations as a "consumation of Yankee diplomatic aggression."
Ignoring the fact the break came after Cuba demanded the American Embassy cut its staff from several hundred to 11 persons, the Cubans sought to construe the Washington action as "proof" of earlier propaganda charges the U.S. had been preparing a military invasion.
NEWSPAPER editorialists and radio commentators took the same propaganda line—that the severance
of relations was "another step" in the alleged U.S. plan setting the stage for direct attack.
Perhaps significantly, Moscow radio earlier took the same line in its radio reference to the break in its international broadcast service.
Meanwhile, hundreds of Americans, warned by the U.S. Embassy to get out of Cuba immediately unless they had "compelling reasons" to stay, packed for a hasty return to the mainland.
Although Premier Fidel Castro's government had promised "absolute guarantees" of the rights of 3,000-odd Americans in Cuba, three Americans were arrested yesterday by the Dier (secret police) and held
without charge. They were released at 2 a.m. today.
PRESIDENT EISENHOWER said in a statement handed to reporters;
"This calculated action on the part of the Castro government is only the latest of a long series of harassments, baseless accusations and vilification.
"There is a limit to what the United States in self respect can endure. That limit has now been reached."
The state department immediately announced the United States intends to keep its 1,550-man Guantanamo Naval Base in eastern Cuba.
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