160° CUBAN/SOVIUT AGRIRIINT s Sections of the capitalist press have interpreted the agreement signed betwaen Castro and Krushshov’in Moscow on May 25th as moaning that Castro has firmly lined up with Krudchoy in the dispute in the world communist movement. “Whilst it is true that Erumchov will treat the agreoment as a victory for himself over the Chinese, there is really Nothing in the docum ent to show that Castro's previous position has changed,
The statement is a diplomatic document in which points of agrsoament are emphasised, The Sino=Sevist dispute is not mentioned, neither directly nor through double-talk about Yugoslavia or Albania, Insofar as issues in the Sino-Soviat dispute are touched upon they are formulated in a non=-poleMical manner and are imprecise enough to cover both what Castro and Erusichovhave put forward in the past, The tone of the statement is hard when it refers to the attitude of the 0.5. to Cuba, It says that the Declaration of Havana “correctly indicetes the course of events" in Latin America, (Readers will remember Castro's statement that this declaration had been ‘locked away in drawers! in certain countries.) I+ also mentions that in future the Soviet Union will pay more for Cuban sugar than was stipulated in the original agreement, The price of suger has of courses gons up sinos the agroemonts wera coneluded,
Cuba desires to return to normal rolations with the United States, the statement cays but it continues that both Cube and the Soviet Unions "note that although the diroct danger of a military intorve~ ntion on Cuba was eliminated, the tonsion in tho Caribbean still romains eeeeeein the course of talks between comrades N.S, Khrushchov and Fidel Castro it was confirmed by the Soviet side that if an attack was made on Cuba in vblation of the commitments undertaken by the United Statos Frosident not to invade Cuba, the Sovict Union will fulfill its internatio— nal duty to the fraternal Cuban poople and will ronder it tho nocossary aid for the defence of the freedom and independence of tho Cuban Ropublic with all the means at its disposal, Tho organisora of aggression should remember that an invasion of Cuba will place mankind before a devasting muclear=missile war."