ATTITUDE TO CUBA

Press, Volume C, Issue 29452, 2 March 1961, Page 15

ATTITUDE TO CUBA

Kennedy Held “Hostile" WASHINGTON. March 1. The Cuban Government has said the United States under President Kennedy is treating Cuba no better than the Eisenhower Administration did. In a Note to the Organisation of American States yesterday. Cuba accused the United States of “intemperate and hostile acts” against the Government-- of Dr. Fidel Castro. The Note, which was not released by Cuba, was also to go to the United Nations. Its contents were disclosed by orivate sources. United Press International said

“The slight hopes fostered by the revolutionary Government for a change of perspective and method by the new Administration in its policy toward Cuba, have almost faded.” the Note said It said the United States’ “proclaimed policy •to ‘start anew’ has become, as far s Cuba is concerned, a renewal, of the cold war policy of *he previous Administration “The words and acts of President Kennedy and his associates could not have been, until now, more intemperate and hostile,” it said

The Note, signed by the Cuban Foreign Minister (Dr Raul Roa) renewed the Castro Government’s claims that the United States was planning aggression against Cuba.

It said “military intervention. direct or indirect, open or concealed, would bring about an international conflict wjth incalculable consequences."

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