INVADE CUBA!" SAY AIIGRICAN PEOPLE
“Americans Are Increasingly Against U.S. Invasion of Cuba.” This was the headline in a report about a recent poll in the Februery 26 European Edition of the New York Heraid qe dvune - That is a rare, headline-in.this imperialist sheet which has\Been foaming: at the mouth for some time for "action" against Cuba. .
The results of the poll, announced by George Gallup, director of the American Institute of Public Opinion, reveal an astounding fact. Although the war hysteria whipped up by all the big publicity media reached heights in recent months never before seen in the history of the United States, the American people brushed it off as if they hadn't been listening.
‘Shortly before Kennedy ordered his illegal biockade of Cuba - last October, the Institute asked the following question: "Some people say that the United States should send our armed forces into Cuba to help overthrow Castro. Do you agree or disagree?"
Almost two-thirds opposed invading Cuba. The exact figures then were: "Disagree, 63%; agree, 24%; no opinion, 13%."
The same question asked today brought she following results: "Disagree, 64%; agree, 207); no opinion, 16%."
This is strong evidence of the basic gcodwill of the American people toward the rest of the world, even tceward a country singled out by Wall Street and its entire propagand:. machine as Enemy No.1. It points to thé immense feeling of human sulidarity in America which will eventually flow into the socialist movement and make it one of the most dynamic the world has seen. And it offers fresh | confirmation of a mass mood noted. repeatedly in the United States
Since. the end of World War II: Fear of another world war is* dsep and irremovable. The American people don't want a world of radio~ active ruins. What Truman did to Hiroshima and Nagasaki was enougn!