7 JULY 1961, Page 28

CUBAN AFTERMATH

Sta,-1 apologise for the carelessness (or bad typing) that . made me, write Senator ,Dodds instead of Senator Dodd (I know his name quite well), promo Major Guevara to the rank of Senator (I meant Senor) and for a slip (which . may not have hceo Mine) of dating my piece froni Washington instead of Detroit. .

To turn to more serious matters. I am willing 10 agree that 'Fidelismo' is a danger if it sprea'ds to the rest of Latin America. What is more likely t

make it spread than a full-fledged `Yanqui' invasion? It would have to be full-fledged, air force, navy, marines, all the works. This invading force could, no doubt, take Havana. And then? Suppose the Fidelistas take to the maquis? Does Mr. Beichman look with complacency on another Algeria 'ninety miles from Florida'? The economic breakdown I suspected might arrive would be less in the provi- sion of foodstuffs than in the collapse of the sugar economy. If such a breakdown does occur in the