sth, coe = FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 11, 1966 VOL. 27, NO. 6 Internal interference in Cuba, says Castro Premier Fidel Castro has Charged People’s China with trying to subvert the Cuban armed forces, Dr. Castro’s attack came in a written reply published last Sunday regarding China’s state- ments on the reduction of rice supplies to Cuba, It accused China “of brutal reprisals of an economic nature for purely political reasons” and of joining, in effect, the United States blockade of Cuba. Castro said the real reasons underlying China’s reduction of rice supplies—a staple diet for Cubans—were not economic, as claimed, They were dictated, he said, by Cuba’s refusal to allow dis- tribution of propaganda material “on questions tending to deepen ~ divisions between socialist peoples and states.” EXAMPLE OF “MILITARY”? BOMBING. While in Viet- Nam recently, PT associate editor Maurice Rush took the above photo of a hospital at Uong Bi. It Was clearly marked with a Red Cross on the roof «On occasion, Chinese repre- sentatives tried to make contact directly with Cuban officers and in some cases were able to approach officers in an apparent attempt to win them over person- ally for the purpose of prosely- tization and perhaps informa- tion,’’ he said, «This was a truly incredible act, which no sovereign. state, no government which respects itself will ever tolerate; a flag- rant violation of the norms of the most. elementary respect which might exist between social- ist and non-social’st siates alike.” On January 2, as previously ~ reported in the PT, Castro re- vealed that China had refused to supply Cuba with the total amount of rice she had requested for 1966 — 280,000 tons—and would only send 135,000 tons, a Major war threatens world unless U.S. plans blocked Unless the people of the world demand that Washington halt its mau- ness it appears virtually certain a greatly expanded Southeast Asia war is inevitable. In today’s world, this could quite rapidly expand into an all-out nuclear war with its resultant catastrophe for-mankind. There can be no other con- clusion in view of the latest pro- nouncements by U.S, President Johnson and other top war whoopers, who have made it clear expanded war, despite all the ‘“*peace’? propaganda, is what the people of Vietnam can look for- ward to, Speaking in Honolulu last week- end LBJ left no doubt that, under the sacred mantle of anti-com- munism, he was determined to prevent the Vietnamese people from winning their independ- ence, But more than that, he served notice that no nation on this earth can dare dream of bringing about social change — no matter how desperately such change is needed — without prior permis- sion of the United States of Amer- ica, when he stated: *Tf we allow the Communists to win in Vietnam, it will become easier and more appetizing for ‘them to take over other countries in other parts of the world, “We will have to fight again some place else, at what cost no one knows. That is why it is vitaliy important to every Amer- ican family that we stop the Com- munists in South Vietnam,” Thus Johnson made it clear the U.S, has no intention of re- lieving international pressure, of recognizing that “the time has come” for the historic national liberation movements of the world’s enslaved peoples, and of but this didn’t stop U.S. planes from bombing it. The government of the DRV protested to the U.S., listing the hospital’s exact location so as to protect it from future’ raids. The result was that Yankee seeking an end to the senseless killing in Vietnam, But even while he was re- affirming U.S, intentions to po- lice the people of the world, John- - son was running into ever stiffer opposition to his brutal policies, both at home and abroad. “Be realistic! Without American aid there wouldn’t have been a school to bomb in the first place’’ A long-smouldering resent- ment against his arm-twisting of Congress has flared now and again, Its latest eruption came in the form of hearings into the Vietnam crisis being conducted by the Foreign Relations Com- mittee of the U.S. Senate, headed by Sen, Fulbright of Arkansas, The committee members re- cently subjected State Secretary Dean Rusk to a merciless grill- ing which resulted in Defence Secretary McNamara refusing to testify in public before the same committee, The hearings have also pro- vided a forum for a number of influential people like retired army and navy brass who are most concerned with the direc- tion U.S, foreign policy is taking and are beginning to question it, Many observers feel the real questioning will start when flag- draped caskets from Asia begin arriving in the thousands, Even British Prime Minister Wilson, who has been the most grovelling and pliant apologist for U.S, crimes against Vietnam felt compelled this week to draw the line at further escalation, when he said: “We have made it clear in Washington that we could not support any extension of the bombing to North Vietnamese cities like Hanoi and Haiphong.” A good statement, if one can be- lieve Wilson, But the government of Canada hesitates to even go that far, All that the Canadian people can draw out of Ottawa are assur- — ances by our Prime Minister that Canada is “acting quietly in the background” for peace, : He seems unable to compre- hend that the urgency of the sit- uation demands, not “acting quietly,” but speaking out sharply for an end to Yankee madness, Otherwise, he may still be act- ing quietly while Canadian cities burn with the flame of the atom, bombers came back a second time and knocked the hospital entirely out of commission. —PHOTO BY MAURICE RUSH sista