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How to Save Cuba

by Anthony Harrigan

Here is a thoughtful program for the overthrow of Fidel Castro, without calling on the Marines: we can turn the Communists’ tactics against them.

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Though Cape Canaveral and the H-bomb plant on the Savannah River have not been targets of missiles emplaced on Cuban soil, the Castro dictatorship is waging war against the United States. It is Stalinist-style warfare characterized by the seizure of U. S. properties, systematic distortion of the truth, and all the agitation and propaganda tactics in the Communist book.

It is time for Americans to realize they are under attack and to take to the offensive. Unless this country acts promptly against Fidel Castro, Cuba will become a diplomatic and strategic Pearl Harbor in a Western Hemisphere which has become a target of Communist indirect aggression. The time has passed when the U.S. public could consider whether intervention in Cuba is advisable. After Castro’s reception of Soviet Deputy Premier Mikoyan, after the Cuban pact with Warsaw for the supply of military aircraft, after the confiscation of millions of dollars of American property, after the pressures mounted against the U.S. naval base at Guantanamo Bay, and after the systematic hate campaign, designed to destroy traditional Cuban-American friendship, the United States has only one question to consider—how intervention may best be achieved.

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