Cuba’s ambassador to the UN, Senor Lechuga, has charged that the U.S, is increasing its attempts to strangle Cuba economically. **We know that tension in other parts of the world has eased off,’’ he said, ‘* and our people and government are happy about the relaxation of international tension because we are for peace. **But as our Prime Minister, Dr. Castro, said a week ago, *We cannot calmly put up with a situation where tension relaxes for all but increases for us.’ *‘World opinion received with Satisfaction the news of the lim- ited Moscow test ban treaty which releases mankind from alarm Algerian government minis- ters last week addressed mass meetings throughout the country held to support the policy of President Ben Bella and to de- nounce the actions of opposition elements in Kabylia. Speaking in the town of Bou- gie, in Kabylia itself, President Ben Bella told a rally of over 6,000 people that he would use all means to deal with the re- volt. : He appealed to the rebel lead- er, Colonel el Hadj ‘‘not to make Algerian blood flow.’’ If neces- sary, he would‘‘ mobilize 100,000 Algerians in vigilance com- NATO plans for a mixed-man- ned multilateral nuclear force came in for a slashing attack from a British Tory MP recently. Capt. Litchfield, who once commanded a battleship, told the British Navy League in London that it was “the 1963 version of appeasement.”’ “However crackbrained we May think this project to be from the naval point of view, it must be taken seriously be- cause of the poitical issues in- volved. “T am afraid it will not be laughed out of existence. I hope it will be argued out of exist- ence,’’ he said. The political arguments cen- tred on a desire to give West Germany a share in a NATO _ CHINAWARE — LINENS — —s 5:30 Daily _ mittees to counter the rebels,’ . <= EMBROIDERED GOODS - — SOVIET WRIST WATCHES —_ CERAMIC FIGURINES a A wa We ata in arranging tourist visits to the Soviet Union —e << UKRAINSKA KNYHA. : 2643 East Hastings Street | Telephone ALpine 3-8642 ge Closed eee : bowen tit WORLD Cuba levels fresh charges over the harmful consequences of radio active pollution and relaxes international tension,’’ Lechuga continued. **But precisely from the mom- _ ent the treaty was signed, the U.S. government began a new phase of aggression against Cuba. Cuba supports the Soviet peace policy which bore fruit in the form of a limited test ban treaty. **Cuba is ready to make all possible efforts to strengthen world peace. But Cuba cannot sign a treaty of which one of the signatories is the chief propa- gandist of enmity and attacks against our country, a policy which verges on undeclared war.”’ Ben Bella pleads for unity he declared, Opposition leaders ‘‘only un- derstand the language of the machine gun,”’ he said, and were seeking to divide the nation at a time when it was ‘‘laying hands on big fortunes.’? In Tizi Ouzou, the minister for National Economy said anyone who tried to oppose socialism would be swept aside. The oppo- sition was speculating in poverty and present difficulties, He warned he would arrest speculators in Tizi Ouzou, and appealed to ‘‘those who have strayed’ to come back, to let the farms work, and let the re- volution continue. Tory attacks NATO scheme nuclear deterrent, but he saw ‘no particular reason to be ten- der toward Germany in this re- spect.’’ It would have been wiser had Britain firmly rejected par- ticipation without so much ‘‘po- lite beating about the bush.”’ Lord Granville, league pre- sident, said the league’s policy **quite frankly’’ did not like the NATO plan, which was ‘‘purely a political move.’’ Despite the general easing -of the international atmosphere, imperialist circles (and the U.S.A. in particular) have been pressing for the ‘new look’’ in NATO as a means of getting H-weapons into the hands ofneo- fascists in West Germany. a