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Castro Bows To Popular Demand;
Once More Accepts Reins at Havana *
By WILLIAM L. RYAN
HAVANA, UP) — Fidel Castro
swept back into the Cuban pre
miership as expected, by an enor
mous popular demonstration,
served notice last night he will
be friends with the United States
only if the United Stats does not
get in his way. /
The spectacular crowd, esti
mated at nearly a million,
cheered wildly as he told them he
would bow to “the will of the
people” and resume office. The
demonstration again underscored
that the bearded, 32-year-old revo
lutionary leader is Cuba’s strong
man.
He asserted that Cuba is not a
protectorate or colony of any other
country but a free sovereign na
tion and “we have to account to
no one.”
Castro said Cuba wants to be
friends with all nations but can
not be with those “who offend us,
'who insult us and who exploit
us,” nor with any vested interest
which tries to “impose itself on
the destiny of our people.”
But in 2\'fe hours of talk, Castro
failed to mention Communism by
name at all. He referred to it only
obliquely, when hitting at his
critics, but apparently did not
feel it necessary to deny their
charges that he is letting the Reds
influence his government.
Uptown Havana’s vast Civic
Plaza was packed with the shout
jng, cheering throng. Castro told
it emotionally that from now on
the “symbol of our revolution
will be the machete,” the long,
sharp knife used for cutting
sugar cane.
The announcement provoked
furious response during which
some 400,000 capesinos — farm
ers — brought from the provinces
to swell the demonstration, clashed
their machetes in unison to add
to the general uproar.
Seaton Talks With
Japanese Government
Officials In Tokyo
TOKYO, UP> — U. S. Secretary
of Interior Seaton met today with
Foreign Minister Aiichiro Fuji
yama at the foreign office.
Fujiyama told newsmen, it was
a courtesy visit but they had ex
changed opinions on the issue of
the catch by Japanese fishermen
in the North Pacific.
Seaton is on his way home from
Cambodia, where he represented
President Eisenhower at the in
auguration of an Amrican-fi
nanced highway. He meets tomor
row with Agriculture - Forestry
Minister Takeo Fukuda and Min
ister of International Trade and
Industry Hayato Ikeda.
Joint Chiefs Chairman
Twining Returns to Work
WASHINGTON, UP) — General
Nathan F. Twining returned 'to
duty today as chairman of the
joint chiefs of staff.
The Air Force general has been
away from his desk for 11 weeks.
He underwent surgery May 12
for removal of a lung caricer.
Twining told reporters that he
felt “better than before,” then
quipped that “it was a hard way
to get a rest.”
Twining looked a little thinner
and paler than before his opera
tion. There was one other notable
change in his appearance — the
absence of the black cigar that
used to be habitually in his mouth
or between his fingers. *
Twining said that he had quit
cigar smoking.
Mice are Nice !
HAVANT, England, UP> — Stella
Thompson thinks mice are nice.
She would rather have a mouse
than a house.
The mouse, a wil(l one which
Miss Thompson tamed, has the
• run of her one-room flat. She calls
him Will.
Miss Thompson, 37, has been
left a large modern house by her
late father, but she has decided
not -to move.
“I don’t think Will would take
to new surroundings,” she ex
plained. “He is shy and cannot
fend for himself, and I just can’t
leave him.”
Adlai Says Khrushchev
Behavior at Nixon Visit
Is Par for Course
FLORENCE, Italy, UP) — Adlai
Stevenson said today that Soviet
Premier Nikita Khrushchev’s ver
bal duel with Vice President
Richard Nixon in Moscow Friday
was nothing new.
“Khrushchev is that way often,”
the former Democratic Presiden
tial candidate said. “It’s no novel
ty. He behaves according to his
sudden changes in mood. He has
done the same with other Amer
ican politicians. He acted the same
way with me when I went to the
Soviet Union last summer.”
Stevenson, here on vacation,
said he considered the interna
tional situation even more grave
than it was a year ago.
Filipinos Charge U. S.
Troops Murdered Suspects
MANILA. UP) — U. S. Ambas
sador Charles Bohlen and Philip
pine Foreign Secretary Felixberto
Serrano met three hous today dis
cussing charges Filipilos were
murdered at Clark Air Force Base
north of Manila. Bohlen said he
would file a protest unless the
Philippine government repudiated
charges that guards at the air base
shot 23 Filipinos suspected of
stealing base property between
1947 and July, 1958.
Alaskan Resources Research
Limitation Would Be Removed
In Bartlett-Sponsored Measure
WASHINGTON, UP) — A bill to
remove a $250,000 limit on money
that may be spent annually to
investigate Alaska water re
sources was approved by the Sen
ate Reclamation Subcommittee
today.
Senator E. L. Bartlett introduced
the measure for himself and Sen
ator Ernest Gruening.
Midget or Child Used To
Make Off with Bank Funds
LONDON, UP) — A burglar gang
spearheaded by a child or midget
made off with 20,000 pounds ($56,
OOOi in a weekend raid on an
East London bank. Police said the
robbers got into the bank by
pushing a tiny member of the
gang between the bars protecting
a lavatory window. The tiny one
let the mob in through the front
door.
Democratic Leader
Offers Compromise
For Senate Action
WASHINGTON, UP) — Bills Con
gress will pass before adjourn
ment will do all that a majority
of its members and the President
will agree can be done, says Sen
ator Lyndon Johnson.
Hinting strongly at a willing
ness to compromise, the Senate
Democratic leader said he must
see that the Democratic-controlled
Senate avoids a legislative dead
lock with the Republican Admin
istration.
Congress must do something,
Johnson added in a radio-TV in
terview, even if “we won’t do
everything that I would like
to do.”
Johnson expressed his views
during a' radio-TV program with
Senator Leverett Saltonstall (R
Mass) recorded for Massachusetts
and Texas stations.
What does Johnson think about
these important issues still before
Congress?
Labor Regulation: He predicted
passage of a good bill.
Housing: He said he expects
Democrats to find some area of
agreement with President Eisen
hower. He made no mention of a
possible attempt to override Eis
enhower’s housing bill veto.
Civl Rights: He said he hopes
Congress will pass a civil rights
measure this session, adding “I
think it’s very important that we
have understanding and we have
tolerance, but that we make prog
ress.”
Life Insurance Association Elects
Texan As Chief Executive
CHATTANOOGA, Tenn.. UP) —
A Texan was elected president of
the National Association of Life
Companies, an organization of
small insurance firms, which
closed its annual convention Sat
urday.
He is Don J. Willmon, president
of United Bankers Life of Dallas.
The association voted to hold
its 1960 convention in Oklahoma
City.
Vice presidents elected included
Phillip B. Dunchan, Anchorage,
Alaska.
Congressmen Laud Nixon for Moscow
Display of ‘Courage, and Intelligence’
By JACK BELL
WASHINGTON, (£> — Vice Pres
ident Nixon is proving himself a
match for Soviet Premier Khrush
chev, in the opinion of several
Congress members.
Senator Mike Mansfield of Mon
tana, the assistant Democratic
leader, said Nixon is “making the
best of a very difficult and delicate
situation” during his visit # to
Moscow.
“He is rolling with the punches
thrown at him by Khrushchev,”
Mansfield said. “He is also send
ing back some good punches.”
Senator John Sherman Cooper
(R-Ky>, a former ambassador,
said in a separate interview he
thinks Nixon has matched Khrush
chev in “directness and toughness”
in their informal, caustic ex
changes.
“Nixon is doing exactly what
is needed,” Cooper said. “He’s
talking the only kind of language
Khrushchev can understand.”
Representative Richard M.
Simpson (R-Pal said in a state
ment that Nixon’s verbal encoun
ter with Khrushchev was “a su
perb example of courage and in
telligence.”
Senator Everett M. Dirkson (R
111), the Senate GOP leader, told
a television audience he thinks
Nixon has helped both himslf and
the nation by his actions, and
added: “Frankly, I’m quite proud
of his performance in the Soviet
Union.”
Nixon and Khrushchev engaged
in a series of spirited exchanges
as they toured the American Na
tional Exposition which Nixon
formally opened in Moscow Fri
day.
Because Nixon is all but an
avowed candidate for the 1960 Re
publican Presidential nomination,
there had been a great deal of
speculation in Congress about the
political effect of his trip.
Mansfield, who is no Nixon root
er, said he thinks the Vice Presi
dent stands to benefit at home for
the way he has conducted himself
thus far in a decidedly cool and
often hostile atmosphere.
Nixon and Party Sowing Seeds of Good
Will, Firm Understanding, In Russia
By JOHN SCALI
LENINGRAD, UP) — The Rus
sians lifted their secrecy curtain a
bit today and let Vice President
Richard Nixon have an hour-long
look at their atomic icebreaker
Lenin.
But Vice Adm. Hyman Rick
over, father of the American at
omic submarine and a member of
the Nixon party, told newsmen:
“We are getting the run-around.
I want to see the inside.”
Nixon and Rickover were given
a chance to inspect the prize ice
breaker from top to bottom, but
were kept at long range when it
came to the three reactors which
are to supply the power.
They were allowed for about
two minutes on a catwalk in the
reactor room high above the re
actors themselves. Rickover said
that at that distance no one could
see anything, and he requested a
closer look.
The reactors were inactive,
though the Russians told Nixon
they will be running at full power
before October.
After inspecting the icebreaker,
the Vice President told applaud
ing shipyard workers, “We must
work together to break the ice.”
The Vice President and his
party flew to this second largest
city of the Soviet Union to begin
a five-day swing that will take
them to parts of Eastern Siberia.
Weekend Ai Khrushchev's
Nixon’s departure from the So
viet capital was preceded by a
week-end visit with Soviet Pre
mier Khrushchev during which
they discussed East-West differ
ences for six hours.
Neither side would say whe
ther the marathon talk had boost
ed chances for removal of the
Soviet threat to Allied forces in
West Berlin. But Nixon said the
long exchange was helpful “be
cause it provided on opportunity
for frank and complete discus
sions in a calm and objective at
mosphere.”
A crowd of 1,000 greeted the
Vice President and his party at
the Leningrad airport. It was near
ly three times the number who
turned out for their arrival in
Moscow last Thursday.
Two American tourists at the
airport held up a hastily scrib
bled “Welcome Nixon” sign. The
Vice President was delighted.
Although there was no loud
speaker system, Nixon said in a
brief arrival speech he and
Khrushchev had a “constructive
and full discussion of the many
problems that we have between
our two countries.”
Nixon went on to tell the
crowd:
“The differences between na
tions in today’s world must be
, settled at the conference table
and not on the battlefield. “My
message to the people of Lenin
grad, to the American people is
this — peace.”
Most of the crowd remained si
lent, perhaps because they could
not hear the Vice President.
Report to Eisenhower
The Nixons paid an overnight
visit to the Khrushchev’s big
cream-colored country home, or
dacha, in a wooded park about
20 miles outside Moscow. Nixon
returned to the U. S. Embassy
residence last night and drafted a
detailed report on the conversa
tion for Prsident Eisenhower and
Secrtary of State Herter.
The meeting, sixth between
Khrushchev and Nixon since the
Vice President arrived last Thurs
day, may be their last.
The two leaders agreed that
their rough and tumble debate at
the American Exposition Friday
had not offended either.
The exchange, they said, was
hard hitting and frank — but not
belligerent. Turning to Nixon,
Khrushchev asked, “Were you of
fended?”
“Never,” replied Nixon. “Mr.
Khrushchev and I have some real
and honest differences but we are
alike in this respect: we both
oame from humble families and
both have a practice of speaking
directly and not beating around
the bush.”
“I agree,'” Khrushchev said.
Soviets Have Less Than 10
Operational Missiles, Says
U. S. Defense Chief
WASHINGTON, UP)—'The Soviet
Union has fewer than 10 intercon
tinental range missiles capable of
hitting the United States, Secre
tary of Defense Neil McElroy
says.
McElroy’s statment yesterday
contrasted with his news confer
ence views six months ago when
he said “We do not believe that
Russia has an ICBM capable of
operation against this country at
this time.”
McElroy made it clear yester
day that U. S. defense leaders
believe over-all American weapons
“could more than match whatever
the Russians will have in inter
continental ballistic missile capa
bility.”
McElroy said during a television
interview with Senator Kenneth
B. Keating (R-NY) the United
States must retain an ability to
destroy the Soviet Union if the
Soviets should attack with large
weapons.