SOVIET PLEDGE

Press, Volume C, Issue 29499, 28 April 1961, Page 13

SOVIET PLEDGE

“Promise Is Serious” < .’V.Z.P.A .-Keurer— Copyright) NEW YORK. April 27 The Soviet Deputy Foreign Minister (Mr Valerian Zorini said today that the Soviet Union would stand by its promise to come to the aid of Cuba if it was attacked. He said the Soviet Union viewed the question of aid to Cuba even more seriously than Britain regarded its pledge to Poland just before World War 11. “If the Soviet Union says it will extend assistance, it will extend assistance,” he told a press conference. Mr Zorin said he hoped President Kennedy’s investigation of the Central Intelligence Agency would “lead to the complete liquidation of the aggressive acts which the C-I-A. fostered and prepared and. In the case of Cuba, carried out.” American activities as regards Cuba were in “flagrant violation” of international law. he . said. He said that any intervention by the United States would “only complicate the situation, and lead to serious strife end conflict, whose limits cannot be predetermined.” Record Milk Run— Alice Springs claims to have the world’s longest milk run—a Min mile road and rail journey through desert and sandy scrub country from Clare in South Australia. It topped by 300 miles the previous record, held by South Africa. Alice Springs. Beater.