Communist Threat to the United States Through the Caribbean: Hearings Before the Subcommittee to Investigate the Administration of the Internal Security Act and Other Internal Security Laws of the Committee on the Judiciary, United States Senate, Eighty-sixth Congress, First Session ...United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary, United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary U.S. Government Printing Office, 1959 - Communism |
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activities Agrarian Reform Alberto Bayo Ambassador Argentina Army Batista believe Bogotá BRADEN CABELL Camilo Cienfuegos Caribbean Chairman CHAUMONT Chief Chinese Colombia Colonel CARRILLO committee communism Communist Party conference Cuba Cuban Government Cuban revolution Department DIAZ BALART DIAZ-VERSON Dominican Dominican Republic EASTLAND economic Embassy Father AGUIRRE Fidél Fidel Castro foreign GARDNER Guevara Havana hemisphere HILL INTERNAL SECURITY INTERNAL SECURITY ACT January KORNFEDER labor land Latin America leaders LEDDY Major DIAZ Manuel Rojo ment Mexico Michanowsky military Minister Moscow movement newspaper NORTH organization PAWLEY political Prensa Latina President propaganda question Raul Castro record regime Republic revolution revolutionary ROCHE Rojo del Rio RUILOBA Secretary Senator DODD Senator EASTLAND Senator HRUSKA Senator JOHNSTON Senator KEATING Sierra Maestra SMITH SOURWINE Soviet Union subcommittee talk tell testimony tion told U.S. Government United Venezuela Washington WHITEHOUSE Wieland WILLAUER workers
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Page 49 - In the discussions to which this interest has given rise and in the arrangements by which they may terminate the occasion has been judged proper for asserting, as a principle in which the rights and interests of the United States are involved, that the American continents, by the free and independent condition which they have assumed and maintain, are henceforth not to be considered as subjects for future colonization by any European powers.
Page 49 - It is impossible that the allied Powers should extend their political system to any portion of either continent, without endangering our peace and happiness ; nor can any one believe that our Southern brethren, if left to themselves, would adopt it of their own accord. It is equally impossible, therefore, that we should behold . such interposition, in any form, with indifference.
Page 49 - In the war between those new Governments and Spain we declared our neutrality at the time of their recognition, and to this we have adhered, and shall continue to adhere, provided no change shall occur which, in the judgment of the competent authorities of this Government, shall make a corresponding change on the part of the United States indispensable to their security.
Page 694 - Senator, let me explain to you that the United States, until the advent of Castro, was so overwhelmingly influential in Cuba that, as I said here a little while ago, the American Ambassador was the second most important man in Cuba; sometimes even more important than the President.
Page 49 - Our policy, in regard to Europe, which was adopted at an early stage of the wars which have so long agitated that quarter of the globe, nevertheless, remains the same ; which is, not to interfere in the internal concerns of any of its powers; to consider the government de facto as 'the legitimate government for us ; to cultivate friendly relations with it, and to preserve those relations by a frank, firm, and manly policy, meeting in all instances the just claims of every power, submitting to injuries...
Page 251 - Our time will come in 20 or 30 years. To win, we shall need the element of surprise. The bourgeoisie will have to be put to sleep. So we shall begin by launching the most spectacular peace movement on record. There will be electrifying overtures and unheard of concessions. The capitalist countries, stupid and decadent, will rejoice to cooperate in their own destruction. They will leap at another chance to be friends. As soon as their guard is down, we shall smash them with our clenched fist.
Page 149 - In the course of 1962 the activities of the World Federation of Trade Unions, the world movement of peace champions, the Afro-Asian solidarity movement, the World Federation of Democratic Youth...
Page 49 - The political system of the allied powers is essentially different in this respect from that of America. This difference proceeds from that which exists in their respective Governments; and to the defense of our own, which has been achieved by the loss of so much blood and treasure, and matured by the wisdom of their most enlightened citizens, and under which we have enjoyed unexampled felicity, this whole nation is devoted.
Page 253 - That is why it is essential that the proletariat of the advanced countries should render real and prolonged aid to the backward nationalities in their cultural and economic development. "Unless such aid is forthcoming, it will be impossible to bring the various nations and peoples within a single world economic system that is so essential for the final triumph of socialism.
Page 345 - Will you raise your right hand, please? Do you solemnly swear that the testimony you are about to give will be the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth, so help you God?