The Augusta Courier

Ralph Went To See For Himself, Came Home And Went All Out For Fidel

Fidel Castro has made monkeys of the American liberals.

It is true that he hasn't decorated them with beards, but his conduct since taking over in Cuba has certainly made them more ridiculous than Castro and his crew appeared when they were run out of a New York hotel for plucking chickens in their rooms and leaving the feathers and the innards lying around.

Typical of this crew is Ralph McGill, publisher of THE ATLANTA CONSTITUTION.

On January 8, 1959, Ralph McGill in his column in THE ATLANTA CONSTITUTION, headed, "A Revolution We Must Aid", said, "But it should be obvious that Fidel has no intention of going Communist. He is a product of Western civilization. Nor do the intellectuals and the people about him consider orienting themselves toward Moscow."

Here's What McGill Wrote

But here is McGill's language:

"This is about the Pearl of Antilles— Cuba. It needs a test.

"Let us take one from so conservative a figure as Eugene Black, President of the World Bank. He said recently that the greatest story of this part of the 20th century was the stir and development going on in the underdeveloped countries of the world.

They are, in final analysis, the last best hope for the future. If we can export to them the Western industrial civilization-well and good. If we can't, then the Marxists will export theirs.

This brings us back to Cuba.

"A viciously ruthless and corrupt dictator, ethically and politically bankrupt, has been driven from Cuba. Fidel Castro and the young people of-Cuba have won a revolution. They have not con-

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solidated it. This may be difficult for them to do. Powerful interests will oppose them.

"But it should be obvious that Fidel has no intention of going Communist.

He is a product of Western civilization.

Nor do the intellectuals and the people about him consider orienting themselves toward Moscow.

"But it is approved that if this revolution does not succeed the next one will go far to the left

"A Stable Cuba

"Therefore, it is to the selfish interest of the United States to do all it can to make this revolution so arduously won, a success. A stable Cuba would have a stabilizing effect on all the Caribbean. That is important to us.

"First, we should recall Ambassador Earl E. T. Smith. He several times referred to the revolutionists as "bandits."

This stamps him as a most unobservant man, and an ambassador who, failed to give his country sound information. The U. S. policy there was damaging. Not only was the ambassador blind to the strength of the Fidel Castro movement,

he continued to be very cozy with the Batista crowd."

McGill Wrong Again

McGill is wrong about the American government's backing Batista.

The State Department in Washington left Batista and joined up with Castro.

The American government made it possible for Castro to get the arms and the ammunition necessary to take over Cuba.

Castro had the backing of the American State Department from the very beginning and he was hailed as a great liberator by all of the liberals in America.

Castro The Communist

Even Ed Sullivan took off to Cuba to meet Castro when he came out of the mountains to get an interview with him so as to build him up in this country.

But, Castro was Castro and a Communist.

He took his country into the Russian system of satellite nations and now we are paying for the folly of the American liberals.

in the very beginning and it would not have produced the great crisis that was produced after permitting the build-up.

It is strange that the Kennedys' ADA advisers still believe that if you give Khrushchev and his Communist crowd a little time they will soften up and be our friends.

Petting Khrushchev and the Communists is just about as harmless as petting a den of rattlesnakes.