h P CH fil Chasers + SS Te | gr Bee iRite aca Ns och GES FS sath Te A wee : BUINIEe INGE = peers Ss Wind of ‘Chanes ic Vee Crisis facing the Ken- Administration after Collapse of their Cuban adi Venture is ‘deepened by the |: e Y question: What about the ne ; est of Latin America? ave fear of the repercus- titres, other Latin American Yh €s that finally decided Ae aie the alternative plans Broa - Onslaught on Cuba an © backed by the Presi- nd the Government. ’ ee of these plans put Allen Se] the Pentagon and Shien; ulles of the Central : a Agency pressed irc. €ct involvement of U.S. bis ie arguing that the coun- aa Slutionary forces alone Not be successful. fi Miscalculated 0 ' i of y : hag The State Department, and Dar ‘i i cularly the President’s @ £ral advisers on foreign af- indire peace for a policy of th Or disguised aid to att ema nter revolution, even ahy ic Mg to deny completely ; - Participation. calculations — or mis- ere Ons — of both groups °rn to shreds by. the froj fa hy unity of the Cu- Caley es “We ti 45 Ye tines President Kennedy con- © talk of action by the Ta Staten Zation of American Rricg» Ut this “made in Am- legg g cation will be even 0 Vents 2 reliable ally after the Of the last few weeks. T Sion .- SMerican-directed inva- tion “uba was itself a viola- si the 0.A.S. Charter ie 1948 which states: . © or group of States * Teety Tight to intervene di- “ Teaso °r indirectly for any ‘terns atsoever in the in- ~ Any Fok or external affairs of her States. ” the new tide of ankee” sentiment epi aes me atin America, Ken- Sage Onth ago sent.a mes- 0 88 9 Ongress. referred to ea American ‘econ- Package, ” Thi S Was wrapped up in This article was written by JOHN WILLIAMSON, a for- mer leader of the Communist USS.A., five years in jail for political Party, who served activtities, and was then de- ported to Britain. rhetoric about a call to arms against backwardness. pover- ty. illiteracy and social injus- tice. It. even talked of the need to “complete the revolu- tion of the Americas.” But inside all the tinsel of } fancy words were two omin- ous thoughts. Firstly, Ken- nedy said, “U.S. business con- cerns. have also played a sig- nificant part in Latin Ameri- economic development . (and)... they can play an even greater role in the future.” can The role to which Standard Oil, United Fruit, U.S. Steel, International Tel and Tel and ‘| other. Wall Street monopolies: have dedicated themselves is| expressed in. one word — pe fits. Sucked Dry The U.N.. says that from, 1946 to 1953 the profits and) dividents from Latin America that: went into the U:S. ‘aver- age 482 million dollars a year. .The- results for Latin -America-and its people are ev- en stated:in the New . York Times (January 11, 1961) re- view of 1960 in the following words: "The five-year-old trend to- ward declining production and income quickened ... Agricul- tural production per capita dropped 2 per cent from 1959 levels. In fact, the region is now producing less food for each inhabitant than it did in 1938. The situation could best be summed up in these words: ‘The rich are becoming richer and the poor, poorer.’ ” Secondly, Kennedy; in his message to Congress, made it clear that U.S. aid will be con- ditional on the Latin Ameri- cans ‘doing their part.” In Cuban worker-militia.men marching in defence of thei homeland. his belligerent speech recent- ly he adopted the same Yan- | kee boss language, only in: more open military terms. He declared: “if the nations | of this hemisphere should fail | to meet their commitments. .. | then I want it clearly under- stood that this Government will not hesitate in meeting bes primary obligations .. .” |New Mood The mood of all Latin Am- erica was vividly expressed: at the Latin - American Confer- ence on National Sovereignty. Economie Emancipation and Peace, held in Mexico City. from March 5 to-8 this year. “Present was Vilma Castro, wife of Raoul Castro. She told | | humble.” the: conference that the Cuban revolution would alwavs ‘be ia “revolution .of the humbie, for the humble and by the It cannet be step- ped “because the people are the absolute owners of their own destiny .. .” “de= tem’s suceess — re- and of President geal is termined upon our sys survival and gardless. of the cost the peril.” Unless he realises that there is a new relationship of world forces today and that the “winds of change’ sweep equ- ally over Latin America ag over Africa this arrogant statement will lead to a far worse disaster than happened} last week on the beaches of Cuba. — Hungary Faces A Bright N the 16 bright, hard years | since Hungary was liber- ated from the Nazis illiteracy and poverty — Hungary was once known as “the land of three million beggars’ — have disappeared. Before the war, ‘tuberculosis was known as “the Hungarian disease.” In ten years to 1934, 200,000 Hungarians died from it. Now there are more doctors Photo shows Janos Kadar, secretary 0 Socialist Workers’ Party ch engineering works. | possible by. the rapid indus- ~have a job, he could not af- | ford to be f the Hungarian atting with workers at an | per head of population than.in} etinost any other European | coMMEFY. And the T.B. scourge \as been so: cut down that death’s from it last--year were Jess than a fifth of the 1938 level. If a worker in prewar Hun- ' gary was fortunate enough to sick. Sickness in most cases meant the sack, and one more addition to the ranks =O the beggars. Now a worker “is guaranteed 65 per cent of ‘his pay during sickness — and ,if he has worked in the same ‘job for two years or more this rises to 75 percent. Big advances in health and ‘education. — not tO mention wages and ordinary living standards — have been made trialization of what was pre- dominantly a peasant country. After the. defeat of the; counter - revolution, not was there a rapid economic re- i covery Which surprised Wes- | only| Socialist Future tern “experts,” but big new advances were made. Se much so that this year Hungary be- gins to pay back leans receiv- ed to help it recover. By the end of 1960 indus- trial production had reaehed a figure nearly four times what it was in the best prewar year. Real income, that is allowing for changes in cost of living, is up more than 50 percent on the 1949 level. _ Hungary launched a new Five-Year Plan this year. When it is completed in 1965 more will have been achieved in 20. years than in the whole : of the previous century. In the struggle to raise Hun- gary from the mire of pre-1945 fascism to its present prosper- ity, mistakes have been made —and acknowledged but none of these can hide the great advances which have been made. Hungary, like its neighbors; is now run by ordinary people fer ordinary people. May 12, 1961—PACIFIC TRIBUNE—Page 5.