POLICY ON CUBA

Press, Volume CI, Issue 29802, 19 April 1962, Page 7

POLICY ON CUBA

‘More Subtle ILS. Approach’ (N .ZJ , .A.-Reuter—Copyright) NEW YORK, April 18. The United States remained unalterably hostile to the Communist regime in Cuba but had adopted a hew and more sophisticated approach, the “New York Times” reported yesterday. In contrast to the landing on the Bay of Pigs a year ago of the United Statestrained and equipped rebel brigade, Washington now concentrated on the policies ot political isolation and mounting e conomic pressure.

American tactics in harrassing Cuba had shifted from determination to oust forcibly the Castro Government to the new, subtle, more sophisticated approach. “In the long run they may be more efficient means,” the report said. The United States was faced with the moral dilemma of the Castro ransome-for-prisoners offer and the Kennedy Administration realised the full payment of 62 million dollars demanded for 1179' prisoners would bolster the quickly-deteriorating Cuban economy.

“But in spite of the understandable emotionalism of the exiled Cubans, the United States policies towards Dr. Castro cannot be dictated from Miami,” the report said.

The Administration did not contemplate even remotely any form of “peaceful coexistence” with Havana so long as the Castro regime j maintained its military and; other ties with the Soviet Bloc, continued fomenting subversion in Latin America and engaged in domestic and foreign policies considered in Washington to be detrimental to the Cuban people and the hemisphere.