MEXICO 1 1 '· {; , l l- ) I The President of Mexico hae turned down a prop0Ja1 - by the dictator of Jugoelavia. Tito, offering to join in a common effort - to mediate between the United States and Cuba. President Lopez Mateos, rejecting the idea - on the ground that t Ruseia ~ intervene'I- in Cuba. ~nd that Washington ie quite right to take a strong etand - against the puppet regime tht ~ threatens t ' hemisphere with Soviet rockets. Mexico, supporting the OAS - and ite unanimous condemnation of Castro. ROCKETS The Soviet misadventure in Cuba hae raised again the whole problem of - Soviet rockete. The question - are they ae good, or as numerous, ae Khrushchev has been boasting? The Kremlinologists are inclined to say, with some caution - that they are not. Hence, Moscow's attempt to establish a missile base - close to the United States. f.c Another surmise - the Red army was at faul ~ Tl• Sei:J1:et arahal:1; •orr1ed 1bout::tbe: pt!edcainance:~ Ame-rioatF=,,o■er - push~ Khrushchev into the Cuban fiasco. A VENE Z UELA The Red eaboteurs who blew u _ one section of Venezuela's oil syetem - handled the job like amateurs. Oh, yes, they did succeed - in cutting oil production in the} i ' But they bungled the job - because the dynamite went off prematurely. one of the raiders - killed by the blast. Two others - injured, and captured. The rest of the gang, quickly run down - by the Caracas police. Only a few - etill at large tonight. t~ ~~ The Venezuela oil system being repaired ;z-xpected to ~ --i-i<,, t 4. . ~ normal - 1n a few days. U THANT The Secre~ary General of the U.N., ret urning to . t New Y o r k tonig ht - . without / m a-ceGffif,Ji1eh1ng hie mistJfon, ' . ~ ~ l tt:':baRt, ~ailing ta persuade Castro to okay - u.N. supervision of the dismantling of the Soviet missile bases. . , Castro said to be insisting on - his so-called " five points. " Including - I \ ti . ~,: ~~ ~( American evacuation of Guantanamo. A condition ~ ; w e will not even discuss. All we know tonight - is that the conversations are to continue at the U.N. But the point is that U Thant brought /..u ~~ (~~ back - his entire party • r u one l1fft in Havana - to start .A .._ U .N. operation. two-day and air President Kennedy, still meeting daily - with the National ecu ity council. Still eady with alternat~ f\ urses - • • V I L . "' the success of the secret I " success. - MI KO YAN I I Cl ' ( I I l . - ( The present visit of Mikoyan to Cuba - rather different ~ h i s last one. Then - he was Cas tro' s fai th fu l comrade. The two ~ f . . - ~ all smiles - as they we re photographed together. This time, there aren•t likely t o be - any smiles. I . t t. Ill ( Mikoyan, on his way to Havana - to placate the bearded dictator • . t 'J Or, ie Castro - a Soviet puppet ? Anyway, Mikoyan's job is to give Castro some kind of backing - while insisting that those / ( 4 .J fc i t. { Russian missiles have to go. Ancr ii under U.N. supervision. Mikoyan, scheduled to leave Moscow - tomorrow. The speed of his departure, strengthening the belief - that (!- Khrushchev wants to bring those missiles home ~l aa,,qu4CJ:klY ae... i I lj . - 1 ' -, 11 ( pon,lblt..t. .(nd ~ t, keep castro - from becoming a problem. CODE FOLLOW MIKOYAN Incidentally, our listening poet in Miami haa picked up - Russian language meseages from Cuba. Messages i in code .. • ~ ¥ are now being studied,~ by American experts in cryptography. Presumably, ""' ••• the words ot Soviet techn1c1an1 - reporting back to Moscow. Reporting directly - without bothering to go through Cuban channels. '1!111 ■t■ il1• up&ratt.c.n. a l0tiet 1bm,:- tr• 111siaa tag to •nd. KRISHNA MENON ~ - Th t (,f-(~ · J _ · - · • i ~ · f{- ere fiF'!tegttt.w:tyA••tmm satisfaction - t t t1- fall of Kriehna Menon. lt . c . For years!• have been warning the caustic Indian Defense Minister - about the perils or -7":> Coanunism. ~pecially - Red China•e threat to India. ?or years, Krishna Menon has been lecturing ue - about the peace-loving comrades behind the Bamboo curtain; ~pecially - the affection of Mao Tee-tung for India. . . . Ylv-J. Krishna Menon ./ so blatantly anti-American -- that our government protested to Nehru. Still, it waan•t hie obvious bias It that finally undermined the Rew Delhi De fen ee Minister. ~\~ It wa1 - h i e ~ incompetence. /- A 'Rm Red Chinese invasion of Indian territory - 1a more t· ~ I -t~ -I.Al al{ than two years old. Krishna Menon ~ ••••~that • • time - to t1--- . equip his army. Instead, he 1ett hie~ to race overwhelming .l ~ ~ ~ it. ' ~( odds_ when the Reds began their lft8 pueh out oe the Himalayas • .A /1 Indian troops, ue1ng old-fashioned rifles -- against high powered automatic weapons. KRISHNA MENON 2 Krishna Menon could have had the f1r11Bt western arms - but he preferred to dicker with Moscow. Khrushchev, evidently stringing him along , - - - - - - ~ ~ .,And then saying - " No." Nehru, hurriedly tqrning to - -London and waah1ngton 1 ~ (t~ "9t~what he wants. _)fo1ng something ~ the weat hoped e ~ tor - ~ Kr11hna Menon - trom the poet or J;tadt• Detense ~ "/. ( ~ .i-.. L,l,, L vt ~ ~ \ +- - '6- 111n1s~er. Pt-obalttp~ end w- Krishna Menon' s )eup-.::to (; 1 -rc f.. - ~ Pr1• M1n1eter or India. RUSSIA FOLLOW KRISHNA MENON The Russian attitude moral support for Red China, but no arms. Khrushchev, opposing Mao Tse-tung•e aggression - especially with the world situation so dangerous. At the same time, Khrushchev has to detend Mao publicly - for fear of splitting the Coan.mist bloc. Which la :,) t. . cracks - in what was supposed to be a /l monolith. Whe1'ev,.., MbNlbellev 4ele wllh regard M '"' ~ l t a a l & ) H ellbarraHlllnt c1vW.ntif • • • • • at leut llp ~ o - - l y R.A.F. Here•s another etory about - that odd Br1t1eh phenomenon. '!'he right of a eerv1ce man - to buy hie way out of Her Majesty's armed forces. A few weeke ago, we had the soldier- who was " bought out 11 of the British army, by hie girl friend. Tonight, it's an aviator - in the R.A.F. Brian McGee, still in uniform - when he joined the pacifist Campaign tor nuclear diearma•nt. Brian, deciding that military aviation didn't seem completely consistent - with hie new career. So be asked the pacifists - to get him out. Which they d i d ~ - an:l. - ii by \IGLi ,,, up two hundred pounds sterling. /} 1 ~ ' - t r - Rather: unusual - a pacifist in the R.A.F. 1 , lal:MIP- 'ft · ~ ,,~ - \ ~ · unueua 1, h/lhe got out • S ipiply - buying hi~ •r J."' •