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Republican Convention at Lafayette Adopts Liberation of Cuba Resolution
A REPUBLICAN RESOLUTION
Calling For Cuba's Liberation
Adopted at the Third Louisiana
Congressional District Convention
of the Republican Party, Lafayette,
Louisiana, May 26, 1968.
WHEREAS, it is the sense of this convention that the
time has arrived for the United States of America to assume
the initiative against the worldwide Communist Conspiracy;
WHEREAS, aggressive subversion, terrorism, sabotage
and guerilla warfare have been mounted against the countries
of the Western Hemisphere by the Communist Regime
in Cuba, with military and other assistance from extracontinental
powers; namely, the Soviet Union, Red Chino,
and certain Communist elements from Vietnam and Eastern
Europe;
WHEREAS, the anatomy of this assault has been documented
and exposed singly and/or collectively by public,
quasi-public and private agencies, organizations and
commillees such as the Uni ted States Senate Internal
Security Subcommillee; Permanent Subcommittee On Investigations
Of The Committee on Government Operations,
United States Senate; The Commillee On Un-American
Activities, House of Representatives; The Federal Bureau
of Investigations; The Organization of American States
(OAS); The Tri-Continental (Communist) Conference establlshell
in Havana, Cuba, In January, 1966, and its offspring,
The Lot in Ameri can Sol idarity Organi zat ion (LASO);
The Joint Legislative Commillee On Un-American Activities,
State of Louisiana; The Senate of the State of Florida;
The Truth About Cuba Commillee, Inc., Miami, Florida; The
U.S. Citizens Commillee For A Free Cuba, Inc. of Miami,
and Washington; The American Security Council, Chicago;
Cuban Exile Organizations and news media in the
United States and Latin America; and others;
WHEREAS, the "Communist Threat To The United States
Through The Caribbean" reflects sworn testimony by knowledgeable
United States and Latin American leaders before
the U.S. Senate Internal Security Subcommillee that bores
the international Communist Conspiracy to subvert the
Western Hemisphere, doting bock to the 1920's, culminating
in 1959 with the takeover of Cuba, aiming a dogger
at the heart of America;
WHEREAS, Paul D. Bethel, one 01 the leading U.S.
authorities on Latin American affairs, a former state
deportment official, and editor of a special bulletin for the
U.S. Ci tizens Commillee For A Free Cuba, Inc. has warned
that Soviet Russia and Red Chino and the Viet Cong are
cooperating in the operation of communist training bases
in Cuba;
WHEREAS, the interlock of Communist-action and Communist-front
organizations operating in Louisiana and the
rest of the United States with Red Cuba has boen shown
by the U.S. House Commillee on Un-American Activities,
the F.B./. and other agencies;
WHEREAS, Louisianians H. Rap Brown, Chairmon of
the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Commillee, and Ihe
late Lee Harvey Oswald, communist assassin of the president
of the United States and a member of the Fair Ploy
For Cuba Commillee, have helped to reaffirm the link of
radical U.S. groups with Red Cuba;
WHEREAS, the Louisiana Joint Legislalive Commillee,
in Its series of hearings titled"Activilies of the Southern
Conference Educational Fund, Inc. in Loui siano," as
well as its expose on the "Spartacist League and Certain
Other Communist Activities In South Louisiana," has
helped to bring the proximity of the communist threat into
sharper focus for Louisianians;
WHEREAS, these and other sources have shown the
Amerrcan people Ihat radical hole groups like the Revolulionary
Action Movement (R.A.M.) and the W.E.B. Dubois
Clubs have received much of their impelus, financing, and
guidance in street rioting, racial disorders, campus rebellions
and anti- Vietnam activity from Cubo;
WHEREAS, the distinguished Negro iournalist, Carl T.
Rowan, writing in the May, 1968 edition of Reader's Digest,
documents how Spain, Canada, France, Great Brilain and
other friends of the United States are helping to finance
Caslro-Commun ist exi stence;
WHEREAS, numerouS United Slates and hemispheric organizations,
by resolutions, Ireaties, doctrines, and other
aCls, underscored a Joinl Resolution of the U.S. Congress,
adopled April 20, 1898, that proclaimed that "Cuba is, and
of right, ought 10 be, free and independent";
AND WHEREAS, this Convention recognizes that no
American is free so long as Cuba is enslaved.
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, thaI the Convention
of the Third Louisiana Congressional District of
Ihe Republican Party, meeling this 26th day of May, 1968,
In Lafayette, Louisiana, does reaffirm the "Cuba and Lalin
America" plank, incorporated in the Declaration of Principles
and Platform of the Republican Parly of Louisiana; as
well as the various lenets of the Republican Nalional PloIfornI,
presented 10 Ihe Republican Notional Convention,
July 141h, 1964, in Son Francisco, California, and more porticularly,
"The Geography of Freedom" section, as it relates
to a free and independent Cuba;
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that this Convention more
specifically recommends that a plank be wrillen inlo the
platform of the Republican Parly at the Notional Convention
in Miami, Florida, colling for the immediale liberalion
of Cuba from her communisl yoke, the freeing of thousands
of pol iti col pri soners held capl ive in Ihe jai Is of Cuba,
and the economic and social rehabilitation of the island
Republic;
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that the United States
formulale its plan and submit it to the member notions of
the Organizotion of American States colling for the elimination
of the Russian Communist regime in Cuba fronled
by Soviet stooge, Fidel Caslro, bUI Ihat it oct alone, if
necessary, as provided in the charIer and convenanls of
Ihe Organizalion of American Stoles and the Rio Treaty of
1947; that il declare a slale of nalionol emergency; thaI it
advise all notions 10 cease and desist in transporting
supplies 10 Cuba; that it direcl Ihal all acts of subversive
intervenlion by the Castro regime against notions of the
Western Hemisphere be terminated immediately; that a
Cub"n Government in Exile be recognized and given all
necessary support so that the Cubons may eradicate communism
and liberate their country, thus safeguarding the
security 01 the United Stales of America;
AND, BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, Ihat the members
of the Platform Commillee of Ihe Republican Party of Ihe
Slate of Loui si ana are hereby pet itioned and di recled to
toke whatever steps are necessary 10 incorporate in Ihe
Notional Platform of the Republican Party at the Augusl
Convention in Miami, Florida, the sense of the delegates
of this Convention colling for Ihe immediate liberation
of Cuba.
THUS DONE AND SIGNED this 261h doy of May, 1968,
01 Lafayelle, Lou; siana.
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