Black Power and Red Cuba

IT HAS OFTEN BEEN SAID that a country’s foreign policy is the reflection—the sum—of its domestic policies. This most certainly is true of America over the past seven years, during which the Democrats in Washington have tried to meet guerrilla violence in Latin America, as they now try to meet urban terrorism in our cities, with what amounts to the mentality of the social worker. Our Communist enemies have learned something from all of this, and reason that if the sociologist’s approach being used in Latin America has failed, as it most smashingly has, it certainly cannot be counted on to succeed here. This is the final truth behind what has now emerged as a link between Negro militants in the United States and subversive guerrilla movements in Latin America.

Evidence has been accumulating over the past several years that some leaders of the U.S. civil rights movement are responding to directives coming out of Havana, rather than to any real desire to raise the economic and social status of the American Negroes. A most recent example: Last January 11, SNCC leader H. Rap Brown took sanctuary in the Cuban Mission to the United Nations for six hours after a policeman spotted him lugging a package out of the Cuban Mission and asked him what it contained. Brown refused to answer, and when officer Richard Gleason moved to pull him in, Brown ran back into the Mission. Police were refused entry on the grounds that the Mission enjoys diplomatic immunity.

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Paul D. Bethel

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IT HAS OFTEN BEEN SAID that a country’s foreign policy is the reflection—the sum—of its domestic policies. This most certainly is true of America over the past seven years, during which the Democrats in Washington have tried to meet guerrilla violence in Latin America, as they now try to meet urban terrorism in our cities, with what amounts to the mentality of the social worker. Our Communist enemies have learned something from all of this, and reason that if the sociologist’s approach being used in Latin America has failed, as it most smashingly has, it certainly cannot be counted on to succeed here. This is the final truth behind what has now emerged as a link between Negro militants in the United States and subversive guerrilla movements in Latin America.

Evidence has been accumulating over the past several years that some leaders of the U.S. civil rights movement are responding to directives coming out of Havana, rather than to any real desire to raise the economic and social status of the American Negroes. A most recent example: Last January 11, SNCC leader H. Rap Brown took sanctuary in the Cuban Mission to the United Nations for six hours after a policeman spotted him lugging a package out of the Cuban Mission and asked him what it contained. Brown refused to answer, and when officer Richard Gleason moved to pull him in, Brown ran back into the Mission. Police were refused entry on the grounds that the Mission enjoys diplomatic immunity.