“Cuba Willing To Talk With U.S.”
(N.Z. Press Assocvuton—Copvnglui MIAMI (Florida), April 28. The Cuban Government said today that it was willing to enter into whatever discussions were necessary to find a solution to the tension existing between the United States and Cuba.
“But we are ready to fight and to fight with the last drop of our blood if they attack us,” Radio Havana said in a broadcast monitored
in Miami. The broadcast quoted a statement made by the President of Cuba, Mr Osvaldo Dorticos, to foreign diplomats in Havana, who were summoned to his official residence late last night. The President asked the diplomats to transmit the statement to their Governments, according to the Cuban radio. United Press International said the highlights of the Cuban statement were: (1) Cuba was prepared to enter into any discussions necessary to arrive at a formula for peaceful and friendly diplomatic relations with the Government of the United States. (2) Cuba would "resist to the last drop of blood” if it was attacked. (3) Cuba denounced “the monstrous international crime” perpetrated against it and “alerts the conscience of the world to the risks of the peace of the world such aggression signifies. The Cuban President accused the United States of planning to hurl a military attack at the Caribbean island at any moment, but said Cuba was willing to discuss mutual problems with the United States through regular diplomatic channels. The Cuban Radio said the statement was signed by Mr Dorticos and Dr. Castro, the Prime Minister.
Earlier, the Cuban Government Radio said that 30 more invaders were captured yesterday. One was Identified as Ulises Carbo, the son of Sergio Carbo, who published the Havana newspaper, “Prensa Libre.” The newspaper is now printed in Miami. Carbo reportedly said he accompanied the invaders as a newspaperman and not as a combatant, the Associated Press said. Havana Radio also said a “Captain San Roman.” described as a leader of the invasion and an officer in the old Batista regime, was found yesterday under another name among the prisoners. Thirteen men were re-
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ported to have been captured on the Isle of Pines after they drifted there from the invasion area. Another 16
men were said to have been picked up near Giron beach with Carbo. All Cuban radio stations and the national television station devoted considerable .broadcast time during the day to rebroadcasting portions of last night’s address to the prisoners by Dr. Castro. They also reported that a cargo of 6438 tons of Cuban sugar was on its way to the Soviet Union aboard the freighter Seven Rivers. The president of the Cuban Revolutionary Council. Dr. Jose Miro Cardona, was reported to have arrived secretly in San Juan, Puerto Rico, and then disappeared, A.P. said. Staff at the United States immigration office said they saw Dr. Miro Cardona at the airport when he arrived on Wednesday but local Cuban exiles said they knew nothing about his presence. There were rumours that the anti-Castro leader might have gone to Vieques, a small island east of Puerto Rico, where a number of casualties from the recent Cuban invasion were reportedly being cared for at a United States marine base.
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Press, Volume C, Issue 29500, 29 April 1961, Page 11
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