T h e Kennedy Uses Berlin Crisis MILITANT To Step Up H-Bomb Race Published in the Interests of the Working People By P a u l Abbott head of the Democratic party called for an immediate increase Kennedy’s threat to plunge the in the Marine Corps, souped-up United States into a nuclear war Vol. 25 - No. 29 Monday, July 24 & 31, 1961 Price 10c reserves and more bombers. “W e if the Pentagon’s m ilitary occupa­ must have sea and airlift capable tion “rights” in the western sec­ of moving our forces quickly and tor of Berlin should be under­ in large numbers to any part of mined by a peace treaty between the world.” That’s what the man the Soviet Union and East Ger­ Mass Action Brings Victory said, “any part of the world.” many is being hailed by the cap­ In addition he “requested” that italist press as great statesman­ the standing professional army be ship. increased from 875,000 troops to Over 2 Jim-Crow Holdouts But the gist of Kennedy’s July 1,000,000. To supply the needed 25 reply to Khrushchev’s peace- conscripts, “ I am ordering that our By Alex Harte treaty moves was: “We w ill bury draft calls be doubled and tripled.” ourselves!” The antisegregation movement ers have now been integrated. As for funds, Kennedy upped The burial is to take place in has scored notable victories in the military spending budget by The NAACP reported that the fall-out shelters. “In the event of Atlanta, Ga., and Oklahoma City. $3,454,000,000, bringing the total antisegregation campaign had im ­ an attack, the lives of those fam­ O kla. for the year to $47,500,000,000, an portant by-products including an ilies which are not hit in a nuclear The national office of the increase in Negro voter registra­ increase of $6,000,000,000 since last blast and fire can still be saved,” January. NAACP announced July 21 that tion, the hiring for the first time said Kennedy; “— if they can be Kennedy said he was not calling the Negro community of 60,000 in of two Negro bus drivers, removal warned to take shelter and if that for an immediate boost in taxes Atlanta has resumed shopping in of Jim Crow signs from buses, shelter is available.” ADENAUER: Approves Ken­ to pay for this increase in w hat the downtown stores of that city and NAACP members seating “Tomorrow,” the President said nedy’s “clear stand.” might well turn out to be Amer­ after a 15-month boycott in pro­ themselves in the front of buses reassuringly, “I am requesting of ica’s funeral expenses, “B ut I am test against segregation. The “no­ without incident. the Congress new funds” to be survive for a year or so before certain that every American wants buying” drive was launched after The victory in Oklahoma City used “to identify and mark space sending out suicide squads to test to pay his fair share, and not leave several Negro students were ar­ is particularly gratifying since it in existing structures — public and the radioactive level of the land­ the burden of defending freedom rested for staging sit-ins at Jim- was the scene of the nation’s first private — that could be used for scape, but simply basements in entirely on those who bear arms,” Crow lunch counters. These count- lunch-counter sit-ins and did fall-out shelters . .” existing buildings equipped to No specifications were made as to much to help spark the south- These “shelters” will not be serve as atom ic barbecue pits. what constitutes a “fair share” for wide drive that followed. newly dug caverns where a small As further preparation for workers and for millionaires lik e percentage of the population might doomsday, the “peace-loving” ISR Prints 'Secret' Began With 14 Kennedy. Naturally the President blamed Organized by the NAACP Youth Khrushchev for th is new spurt in Khrushchev Letter Council, the first sit-ins were held the nuclear arms race. The truth there in A u g u st 1958. T he yo u th FBI Cooks Up Hijack ‘Plot’ is something else again. The text of a confidential letter council, which had but 14 mem­ Two days before Kennedy’s about the dispute with Mao Tse- bers at the time, now has a report­ ominous speech, James Reston, tung, which is said to have been ed 3,000. As m an y as 1,500 — ran g­ Washington correspondent of the sent by Khrushchev to the lead­ ing in age from six to 17 — were To Witch-Hunt U.S. Cubans New York Times, w ro te : erships of various Communist involved at the peak of the lunch- “Long before Khrushchev began parties, has been printed in full in The Kennedy administration has CIA and FBI, which have been counter actions and picket lines. tossing out his thunderbolt the the summer issue of International seized a new pretext to whip up organizing the systematic hijack­ During the three-year drive by majority of President Kennedy’s Socialist Review. anti-Cuban hysteria and to inten­ ing of Cuban government planes the NAACP youth, 117 stores were advisers estimated that the ground sify its persecution of pro-Castro and the attachment of Cuban gov­ The letter discusses alleged fac­ integrated throughout the city. forces of the United States should Cubans in this country. Immedia­ ernment property in the United tionalism of the Chinese Com­ The major holdout was John A. be increased to around 1,000,000 tely after an Eastern Air Lines State [would] cease their danger­ munist party in seeking adherents Brown’s, a huge department store men and reorganized and equipped passenger diverted a Florida plane ous policy.” to its views. The Chinese leaders which covers a block and a half. to deal quickly with everything to Havana, the FBI “leaked” in­ He pointed out that more than are accused of violating the Dec­ from guerrilla to nuclear wars. Last September the Youth formation to the press via the New half a million dollars worth of laration of the Eighty-one issued “They wanted a minimum of Council organized a boycott cam­ York police department that mem­ Cuban property, not including in M oscow in N ovem ber 1960, A t thirty divisions facing th e Russians paign against the store. While it bers of the 26th of July Move­ planes, has been seized and sold at the same time the letter argues on the German front instead of was slow in getting off the ground, ment in this country were plan­ auction in the United States. An strongly against the views of the the eighteen they have there now. it grew steadily until an estimated ning to grab U.S. planes and fly example of this was the attach­ Chinese Communists on such is­ They wanted more missiles, larger 78 per cent of the city’s Negro them to Havana. Castro Hijack ment and sale at auction for sues as the possibilities of peace­ atomic weapons in Europe, more community was participating. Plot Bared, bellowed a New York $121,000 of the S.S. Mar Caribe, ful coexistence with imperialist strategic A ir Force bombers in the World Telegram headline. Other seized last January when it put in countries and relations with Yugo­ Capitulated air twenty-four hours a day, fas­ papers followed suit. at a Texas port for repairs. slavia and Albania. Complaints ter development of the West G er­ Feeling the pressure where it In addition, the U.S. has refused are lodged against the French According to the FBI’s “inside man Army, more French divisions to return to Cuba seven of its Communist leaders; and their really hurts, the store’s owner, dope” the hijack plot was mapped transferred from Algeria to Eur­ equivocal attitude toward Khru­ Frank Wade capitulated last at a meeting of Cubans July 23 planes that were grabbed when ope, more financial aid from G er­ passengers forced pilots to land shchev’s revelations about Stalin’s month. As a result Jim Crow has at Casa Cuba, a social club here. many to bring other British divi­ crimes is recalled. The charge was denied cate­ here. been eliminated in the lunch room, sions into Europe. gorically by José Sanchez, coor­ According to Sanchez, hundreds “Khrushchev’s belligerent moves Revealed by Deutscher soda fountains and rest rooms of dinator of the 26th of July Move­ of thousands of dollars worth of toward Berlin have now made all The existence of the letter was the store. ment in the New York area. Cuban exports and imports have these things politically possible.” revealed by Isaac Deutscher, the When this ground-breaking Sanchez pointed out that while been attached in the United States, In other words, the efforts Of well-known specialist in Soviet mass action was launched, a front­ the supposed meeting was alleged­ despite Washington’s stated policy the Soviet government to take the affairs, in an article in the July ly being held at Casa C uba th e that foods and medicines are not page editorial in The Militant, smoldering fuse out of the German 2 London Tim es. This was reprint­ hall was actually closed. His or­ included in its embargo list. powder keg were deliberately con­ ed in the July 5 Washington Post. Sept. 1, 1958, declared: “ W e h a il ganization happened to be holding “The latest evidence of this de­ verted by the White House into an Deutscher’s revelations created these Oklahoma youth and the a large public meeting at another liberately provocative policy,” excuse for putting over a long- an international sensation.