The World - News from March 9, 1988

The United States compared Cuba’s Fidel Castro to Adolf Hitler and Josef Stalin and demanded an investigation by the U.N. Commission on Civil Rights into alleged violations of freedoms by Cuba. Washington’s U.N. ambassador, Vernon A. Walters, told the commission’s annual session in Geneva that Cuba is “one of the world’s darkest dungeons. . . . I am old enough to remember those who apologized for Hitler and Stalin.” Walters said he remembers “the cries of shock and betrayal when the truth of what those dictators had done filtered out to the world. I think that sooner rather than later the same cries will go up when the world finally acknowledges the horrors of life under Castro.”