CUBAN'S VIEW OF CASTRO

Press, Volume XCIX, Issue 29350, 1 November 1960, Page 17

CUBAN'S VIEW OF CASTRO

“Russians Having Trouble Too”

NEW YORK, October 31. A Cuban woman diplomat who defected to the United States said yesterday she believed the Soviet Union was having as much trouble dealing with the Cuban Prime Minister, Dr. Fidel Castro, as was the United States. “I think the Soviet Union has found out that it is terrible to deal with Dr. Castro because he is unpredictable,” Dr. Teresa Casuso said in a television interview. “I think they (the Russians) are as much at a loss as even the United States Government.” she said. “He (Dr. Castro) is uncontrollable. He follows his own ideas on the spur of the moment and that is not the behaviour of a Communist. He is nothing that they can handle.” Dr. Casuso was an alternative Cuban delegate to the United Nations when she announced on October 14 that she had asked Dr. Castro to dismiss her because “I can not represent dishonesty.' Dr. Casuso, a pioneer in the Castro revolutionary movement, said Dr. Castro had assumed dictatorial power in her country. She said last night that she thought Dr. Castro was a “very sick” man. “His mind has been growing more and more disturbed in a very dramatic way.” she said. “It started after he came from the mountains, and it has been getting worse and worse.