SCORES AMERICAN INTERVENTION IN THE . CONGO
After. a visit ‘in Algeria, Che Guevara arrived in Mali Decem= ber 26 on the next: leg of.a tour he is making of African.countries, | Just before leaving Algiers, the Cuban minister. of industry granted an interview to the daily Alger Ce Soir in which he discounted the. possibility of a world war flaring in the immediate future out of the crisis in the Congo, :
"TI think. ‘that the Congo: business comes under “the American strategy of no over-all war, but.local wars to maintain. dictatorships and hence areas of friction,"
"T do not see the possibility at the ‘moment of a world war," Guevara added. "But still, the danger in the.Congo resides in the fact that if American imperialism becomes firmly entrenched there, it will become a base for launching aggressive actions against.-all. progressive African countries, thus multiplying the neuralgic points. in this so important part of the world. Consequently it is necessary in this struggle, which concerns all of us, to take a firm position against American intervention, because it: tends to place in question our existence." ee