CASTRO
OUTLINES INDEPENDENT POLICY ON THST-BAN PACT
In a speech September 28, Fidel Castro outlined the independent policy which the Cuban government proposes. to. follow in relation to the treaty between the United States and the Soviet Union on banning nuclear tests in the atmosphere. The treaty has come under heavy criticism fron Peking as being directed mainly against China's efforts to join the U.S., Great Britain and the Soviet Union as a nuclear power.
The - Ley. paragraphs in Castro! S speech, as released by the Cuban embassy | in Paris, are as follows:
"Ye are Still under the influence of the imperialist blockade and we will continue to resist, because ovr revolutionary banner will never be lowered; we will face the necessary risks as long as we have to, because we assume full responsibility for our conduct, for our history and for our Revolution.
"While tension is diminishing in other parts of the world, the Yankee imperialists are tightening their grip around Cuba and making the blockade more implacable.
"In recent months they have again accentuated this policy. This situation determines our conduct. We will never tranquilly accept a situation in which tensions diminish while for us they increase. We are very happy that tensions are diminishing, but we cannot consider ourselves at peace with the imperialism that tries to strangle us a little more each day.
“wrhis situation determines our international conduct which is not a policy in favor of war. It's a policy in favor of peace, but we are not responsible for the war waged against us.
"As a country under attack, against which is practiced a policy of undeclared war and pirate attacks, the infiltration of saboteurs to kill us, a complacent smile cannot be expected from us toward our imperialist enemies; they are our enenies, and we. must understand that we are their enemies. This situation will determine our attitude in the UN and everywhere else, and will determine our attitude toward the nuclear pact and toward the proposals to ban nuclear tests.
"The position of Cuba is defined as follows: first of all, anti~imperialism. Our line is based essentially on Yankee antiimperialisn. ,
"Our line of conduct is to struggle against this enemy who is harrassing us, imposing a blockade on us and threatening to destroy us. This line of conduct, which is cut out for us, corresponds to the concrete conditions in which the Cuban Revolu-
tion was born and to the specific conditions of the area in the world. where they appeared; flowing from our nearness to Yankee — imperialism and to our fraternal relationship with a continent exploited by this imperialism."
"HOY" BACKS CASTRO IN TEST-BAN POLICY
Referring to the Sino-Soviet dispute and the independent position taken by Castro in his September 28 speech on the testban pact, the Cuban Communist daily Hoy declared October 2 that "The Cuban position is beyond all controversy: 'from head to foot' Cuba is part of the socialist camp."
Hoy said that the "master intriguers of North-American imperialism have sought to speculate on the Cuban position concerning the treaty partially banning nuclear tests." The newspeper castigated these efforts and justified Cuba's abstaining from signing the pact, pointing to the "particular realities and concrete conditions" in which the Cuban Revolution finds itself.
"Cuba is in favor of peace, but the Cuban reality demands that this country, if it is not to be once again the victim of an open invasion, must nevertheless act in face of the infiltration, the parachuting. of arms, the pirate attacks and the most shameless espionage. "
Hoy stressed the effort of the Cuban ‘government to maintain friendly relations with both sides in the Sino-Soviet dispute: "Cuba wants to maintain its fraternal links with the whole socialist worid and will not permit itself to be estranged from this or that country that takes sides and this or that country that grants it solidarity and support."
NEW REVOLT IN COMMUNIST PARTY OF INDIA
NEW DELHI -- Since the "great march" staged here September 13 under leadership of the