00:00:02.240 - 00:00:39.130

Yeah. You don't see you Ready? Waiting to see you. Don't cut it. Bad ruby. Red lips. All right. Two days. Hey! 21 40 32 Smathers. For the past several years, we have read about hot trouble spots around the world. The one in Formosa, the one in Vietnam that no one in Lebanon, the one in Berlin.

00:00:39.130 - 00:00:59.560

And so it went. However, we in Florida now beginning to read and hear about one that's right in our backyard, Cuba and the Caribbean. This situation is growing worse every single day. I greatly regretted to see this administration returned to Cuba. Our ambassador from Cuba, Mr Barnes on.

00:01:00.440 - 00:01:19.650

I told the Secretary of State I thought he was making a mistake. And so, returning our ambassador, I endeavored to point out to him that it would be mistaken by the people of Latin America Who are our friends? We're supposed to stand against dictatorship. We're not supposed to support them or hold them up.

00:01:20.250 - 00:01:45.660

And obviously, the government in Cuba today is a dictatorship. In having withdrawn our ambassador to now turn around and send him back down there would make it appear in the minds of many of our friends around Latin America that in fact we wanted to see this government of Castro's succeed and that we were standing beside this dictator, even though we rant and rave in our press and elsewhere about our desire to get rid of dictators.

00:01:46.340 - 00:02:06.460

More than that, I tried to point out to them that it would be most discouraging for those find people of Cuba who had fought against Batista and who had originally cooperated with Castro but who now saw him in his true light as a left wing dictator and who wanted to get rid of what were they going to think when we made it difficult for them.

00:02:06.840 - 00:02:25.950

When we made it appear that the United States government was against those who might be of the disposition to want to take some action to overthrow Castro? I went on to point out that let's confuse those people, but even more serious, this is compromising our principles.

00:02:25.960 - 00:02:50.460

I believe this is appeasement in my judgment of the worst kind for many, many years, this administration and talked about the appeasement that they thought had gone on out in the Far East and as a matter of fact in other areas of the globe, and they had made a great to do about the statements that they would under no conditions appears that they would stand strong in the face of communist movement.

00:02:51.140 - 00:03:27.760

But in this particular instance, I think we have seen second in the piece. Has it done any good? Obviously not. Ambassador Bansal had hardly arrived in Havana when she Guevara, who was head of the National Bank of Cuba who runs, of course, all the economic operation in Cuba, A well known communist who participate in the government of Arbenz in Guatemala, who originally came from Argentina and who served more recently in the Communist Embassy in Mexico City before he joined up with Castro.

00:03:28.240 - 00:03:46.950

What happened shortly after Bon Sol arrives, Mr Guevara gets on television and radio and begins to abuse the United States again five times during his speech, he said. The Soviet Union is the best friend that the people of Cuba has, and of course, that's flying absolutely in the face of history.

00:03:47.340 - 00:04:06.950

Shortly after Che Guevara got through, talking the so called president of the Republic of Cuba, Mr Dorn, focus appeal to send 17 people to put up their money in order to buy arms, and he abused the United States and said, We're going to declare economic warfare on the United States and we will not cooperate with them again.

00:04:06.950 - 00:04:25.800

There are our enemies. And the thing, of course that's ridiculous is that we have given to Cuba all this preferential and friendly treatment over the years, which I believe in, I hope. But most of the Cuban people will remember and still appreciate. As Mr Darcy has made this statement, we declare economic warfare on you.

00:04:25.800 - 00:04:40.660

I could not help but think of the statement, which was previously made by Mr Khrushchev some months ago. And over here, he said over the television, we are going to bury you talking about the United States. And when asked what he meant by that statement, he said.

00:04:41.500 - 00:04:59.950

I mean, we're going to bear you economically, and so we've seen it. This statement made by the number one Communist in do well, they're going to do us in economically, and now it comes from Cuba. This position that were thus far taken is one of weakness and appeasement and is going to compound the troubles for the future