CASTRO -ON REVOLUTIONARY, LsGALLTY
There has recently been an important trial in Cuba which concerned a former member of the PSP (Cuban c.P.) who was accused of betraying people to the Patista police. Such were the implications of this trial, that most of the important members of the Cuban Government gave evidence. Castro spoke for no less than four hours, His spococh was notovorthy for his remarks on socialist legality. ‘Ye will comment on this trial when we have more information on its outcome, but for the time being wo will quote his concluding romackss Castro said the revolution must avoid the "law of Saturn" (a Roman god who swallowod his own children), He said this would be one of the revolution's most difficult problems and would take a great deal of discipline,
"7e must concentrate on crcating this tradition," he said, "that no one shall abuse power, that no one shall be abused by power, and that rovolutionaries will always bo secure...that always, always, justice be exercised, and that never, never will it have to bo said that ono single revolutionary was unjustly injured, that one single innocent peosson was shot, that one singlo child of the revolution was devoured."
The New York Times of April 13 reports that the rate of casualties among the 15,000 U.S, servicemen in South Victnam is running at more than double the lovel it reached in 1963, "Official figures show that, on average, three U.S. military men have been killed, wounded or listed missing every day since the beginning of the war...The bulk of the casualties, however, occur among the U.S. airmen who fly most of the aircraft of the Vietnamese airforce, and among pilots and crews of U.S. helicopters that carry Vietnam troops into battle or serve as airborne gun and rocket platforms." U.S, military U.Q.s are apparently becoming increasingly alarmed at the success of the liberation forces in destroying these helicopters which they had vainly thought could win them the war despite the lack of popular support. About one-third of South ~ VYiotnan's territory is now within the liberated areas and the 'Victcong! shadow governmont operates postal services, newspapers, education schemes and a radio, Its attacks on the Government held areas are becoming increasingly daring ; recently it captured the important provincial town of Kicnhong, 130 miles south west of Saigon,
Setbacks in Vietnam pose a difficult problem to the U.5, authorities in the United States itself: witness the following report from the New York Herald Tribune on the so-callod mobilisation plan of Gneral Khanh: 'Khanh's bold-sounding proposal for 'tnational mobiksation' so far has produced no results except confusion among Government officials and panic among Saligon's nonmobilised youth..." The paper adds the idea originated in Washington so as to gain the support of the U.5. people for the more expenditure in South Vietnam,