Speech #880089543

Calls upon the President of the United States and all those in authority to demand the immediate removal from this hemisphere of all foreign troops deemed hostile .by the United States or by the Organization of American States (whether designated as technicians or otherwise). 4. Calls upon our Government to intensify its efforts to bring about cooperative action on the part of all free American nations to impose effective economic sanctions against Cuba. but if none shall join with us in this effort. to proceed boldly alone. and further to implement this demand with just so much power as may be required to enforce our demands. and to this end to employ whatever weapons become necessary. including boycott of all shipments of any kind to Cuba. quarantine. blockade and if need be employment of armed forces if that be deemed necessary. or any other appropriate means to free Cuba and this hemisphere from foreign Communist domination. and calls upon the Congress to give full support to this undertaking. 5. Calls upon our Government to aid. assist. encourage. and guide Cuban refugees to form a Governmentinexile and to recognize such Government as the legitimate provisional Government of Cuba. and to give material aid and assistance to such Government in its efforts to rescue Cuba from Communist control. and to establish a free republic in Cuba that will afford Cubans the right to choose their government by free elections. 6. Ask that the Monroe Doctrine be reasserted and implemented with the might of this Nation and that our Government employ the fullest efforts of our diplomatic resources to encourage and persuade all other nations in this hemisphere to join in that assertion and in that implementation. making it convincingly clear that we seek no advantage over any other American nation but that the Monroe Doctrine shall be a shield to protect every nation in this hemisphere from foreign domination. to the mutual benefit of all but shall never be a weapon to be used by us or anyone else to impose the laws. customs. or philosophy of any American nation or group of nations on the people of any other American nation or to impede CIX1065 or thwart their freedom of selfdetermination. 7. Calls upon our Government to increase its efforts to prevent any trade between Cuba and other American states. and that our Government deny access to all U.S.-controlled ports to any vessel of any shipping line that engages in trade with Cuba. whether that particular vessel has been used in the Cuban trade or not. and 8.