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...image, as Moscow has been urging. There is even some suspicion that Castro may hope to use the refugees as an opening gambit in a campaign to establish a sort of Moscow-style peaceful coexistence with the U.S. But that was hardly borne out by Cuban Foreign Minister Raul Roa's haranguing U.N. speech last week, in which he announced plans for an Afro-Asian-Latin American conference in Havana next January to discuss joint action against "Yanqui Imperialism...
...rights." It got twelve answers, charging that the testimony was malicious propaganda, and demanding that the commission investigate human rights' violations in "socalled representative democracies." When he was asked by the commission to respect the rights of the Bay of Pigs prisoners, Cuban Foreign Minister Raúl Roa denied the commission's right to recommend anything or even to suggest the application of "alien norms to matters in the internal jurisdiction of Cuba...
...Many of them are Dr. Roa's friends and associates of long standing," said Stevenson. "They make a rather impressive list: the first Provisional President of the Revolutionary Government, Dr. Manuel Urrutia; the first Prime Minister, Dr. José Miró Cardona; the first President of the Supreme Court, Dr. Emilio Menéndez." Stevenson read the full roll call: "Nearly two-thirds of Castro's first Cabinet, rebel leaders, labor leaders, editors and commentators, and even such confidants as Juan Orta, the head of the Prime Minister's own office...
...Cuban revolution," Stevenson went on. "But in the course of 1959, Castro began the anti-American, anti-United States campaign that in recent months has risen to so strident a crescendo." Stevenson concentrated his appeal on the Latin American diplomats present: "We must not forget that Dr. Roa has described President Frondizi of Argentina in terms so revolting that I will not repeat them.* The official Cuban radio has poured shrill invectives on governments and leaders throughout the hemisphere, and the more democratic and progressive the government, the more the regime recognizes it as a mortal enemy...
...Roa's charge of direct U.S. intervention, Stevenson made only the most technical denial: "No offensive has been launched from Florida or from any other part of the United States." It was a point that Russia's Valerian Zorin, no great brain but adept at probing a sensitive spot, jabbed away at all week long. As it turned out, the point grew increasingly sensitive with the passage of time...