Mr. Speaker. because this great travesty continues because of the acquiescence by inaction of this administration. In the fall of 1960. when it became abundantly clear that Castros true colors were red and thousands of refugees had already swarmed to Floridas shores. I proposed what I considered to be two logical and Initial steps necessary to rid this hemisphere of the Castro menace. First. I proposed the recognition of a free. nonCommunist refugee governmentinexile. and. secondly. a military blockade of Cuba to halt the inshipment of arms and war materiel. Although we have recently witnessed a quarantine which was too quickly lifted. we have yet to see initiated any real effort to unite and back the Cuban refugees living in the United States and elsewhere in order to win back the freedom of Cuba. This is an effort which is essential if Castro is to eventually be toppled and the Pearl of the Antilles freed. The President. in a dramatically staged address to the Cuban refugees in Miamis Orange Bowl recently. pledged that the flag of the invading forces will once again hang in Havana. How does the President propose to do this? Mail it to Castro and hope he will change his colors by flying it? I do not say this to be facetious. Mr. Speaker. but it is becoming disturbingly clear that Cuban refugees. should they again attempt to invade Cuba. would fail so long as they remain disunited and unsupported. Unless the various Cuban refugee factions are united under a common banner. they will remain ineffectual. And the obvious way to unite them Is by recognizing a Cuban governmentInexile. It is an exiled government. with the help of the United States. that could and properly should become the instrument behind the forces which will someday regain their freedom on Cuban soil.
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