Russia Attacked At Havana

Press, Volume CVII, Issue 31439, 4 August 1967, Page 9

Russia Attacked At Havana

(N.Z.P.A.-Reuter—Copyright)

HAVANA, Aug. 3. Radical delegates attacked the Soviet Union at the Latin American Solidarity Conference in Havana last night for helping “dictatorships” in the continent.

Brazilian and Dominican Republic delegates both echoed charges made earlier this year by the Cuban Prime Minister, Dr. Fidel Castro, against Russia’s policy of economic and other relations with Latin American “oligarchies.” Neither Cuba nor Venezuela, the radical camp’s

leaders, mentioned the Soviet Union in their speeches on the second day of the meeting.

They may, however, bring the question up in committee stage behind closed doors.

Earlier in the day delegates heard the American black power advocate, Mr Stokely Carmichael, declare that the American Negro was ready to wage urban guerrilla warfare against “Yankee imperialism.” Mr Carmichael preached a message of “hatred” which would transform man “into an effective, violent, selective and cold killing machine.”

The previous day, Mr*Carmichael foresaw the assassination of President Johnson

and the British Prime Minister, Mr Wilson, as possible vengeance for the deaths of Negro leaders. Communist sources in Havana, said that Mr Carmichael told a press conference that the President and the Prime Minister and the United States Secretary of State, Mr Rusk, and the Defence Secretary, Mr McNamara, would be the first to “pay-the price.” British and American journalists were excluded from the conference.

Last night Gerhardo Sanches, of the Dominican Republic, led the attack on Russia with a violent condemnation of “the aid agreeIments of the Soviet Union land Socialist States with dictatorships like Brazil.”

The Brazilian delegate, Mr Jose Anselmo, turned up in Havana two days ago over a year after his corpse was said to have been officially identified in Brazil.

Clearly referring to the Soviet Union, he said: “We consider it incompatible with revolutionary solidarity that countries which elaim to support the liberation movement give credits of $2OO million to the Brazilian military regime. The wife of the guerrilla leader, Ernesto Che Guevara, Aleida March de Guevara, was among. those at yesterday’s sessions. Che Guevara, who disappeared about two years ago, has been recently reported helping Communist groups in Latin America.