:52:02
Has he replied?
:52:04
It is nighttime there.
:52:06
No doubt he has the
bureaucracy to contend with.
:52:08
He has not replied?
:52:10
We've won a considerable victory
:52:11
by the guaranteeing of the Castro regime.
:52:13
Mr. Chairman,
in order to save valuable time,
:52:16
and in the hope that you will approve,
:52:18
we have had the Foreign Ministry
draft a new letter
:52:20
to President Kennedy.
:52:24
A new letter to Kennedy?
:52:26
On your behalf, of course.
:52:28
Let me see it.
:52:29
In front of you, sir.
:52:32
The fifth paragraph is
the operative section, Mr. Chairman.
:52:36
Very well.
:52:38
I must read the fruits of
your collective wisdom.
:52:41
You are worried over Cuba,
President Kennedy,
:52:43
because it lies at a distance
of 90 miles across the sea
:52:45
from the shores of the United States.
:52:48
However, you have stationed
devastating rocket weapons,
:52:50
which you yourself call offensive,
:52:52
in Turkey, literally right next to us.
:52:54
This is why I make this proposal...
:52:58
we agree to remove those weapons
from Cuba
:53:00
which you regard as offensive.
:53:02
We agree to do this,
and to state this commitment
:53:04
in the United Nations.
:53:06
Your representative will
make a statement to the effect
:53:08
that the United States on its part
:53:09
will evacuate its analogous
weapons from Turkey.
:53:12
Let us reach an understanding
on what time
:53:14
you and we need to put this into effect.
:53:17
He's taken back half
of what he offered yesterday,
:53:20
and added the demand,
:53:25
impossible demand that
we trade Turkey for Cuba.
:53:29
So I can trade nations like chessmen,
:53:32
Turkey for Cuba,
British Guyana for Berlin.
:53:40
Why has Khrushchev repudiated
his own offer?
:53:45
Who's running the show over there?
:53:49
Well, there may be a split in
the Presidium.
:53:51
Maybe they feel that Khrushchev's
been too reasonable
:53:53
and they're upping the ante.
:53:55
Is blackmail,
and is damn effective blackmail.