-DATE- 19600830 -YEAR- 1960 -DOCUMENT_TYPE- SPEECH -AUTHOR- F. CASTRO -HEADLINE- SIERRA MAESTRA TEACHERS RALLY NO. 7 -PLACE- HAVANA -SOURCE- INCOMING TELEGRAM -REPORT_NBR- FBIS -REPORT_DATE- 19600830 -TEXT- SIERRA MAESTRA TEACHERS RALLY NO. 7. FIDEL CASTRO SPEECH (CONTINUED) CUBA WAS ONE OF MANY LA NATIONS SUBJECTED BY IMPERIALISM. AND CUBA LAUNCHED REBELLION OF AMERICA AGAINST YANKEE IMPERIALISM (CROWD CHANTS SLOGANS 3 MINUTES). WE CUBANS KNOW WHAT WE ARE DOING. THIS IS HISTORIC MOMENT FOR OUR COUNTRY. WE MUST RISE TO THE OCCASION AND MARCH FORWARD, CHOOSING CAREFULLY OUR ROAD. THOSE WHO DO NOT UNDERSTAND ARE THOSE WHO HAVE CHOSEN WRONG ROADS. CERTAIN ERRONEOUS EUPHORIA HAD BEEN CREATED. IN SOME CASES EVEN OUR REVOLUTIONARY PRESS MADE MISTAKE AND CONTRIBUTED TO EUPHORIA. WHEN ALL ALONG REVOLUTIONARY GOVERNMENT HAS SAID 'WHAT CAN BE EXPECTED OF OAS?' CAN WE EXPECT FOREIGN MINISTER TO JOIN IN REVOLUTION AGAINST IMPERIALISM? NO, OF COURSE NO. OLIGARCHIES, BOTH MILITARY AND ECONOMIC, RULE IN OUR SISTER REPUBLICS. CONSERVATIVE FORCES WILL NOT REBEL AGAINST YANKEES. WHAT GOVERNMENT IN PAST HAS SAID NO WHEN YANKEES SAID YES? WHAT GOVERNMENT HAS REFUSED RECEIVE ORDERS FROM WASHINGTON OR FROM YANKEE EMBASSY. WE ALL KNOW OF PAST HISTORY. WE ALL KNOW HOW THEY TREMBLED WHEN YANKEE AMBASSADOR SPOKE, BUT DIPLOMATIC REPRESENTATIVE OF OUR REVOLUTION STOOD UP TO YANKEE FOREIGN MINISTER IN OAS. OTHER LATIN AMERICAN FOREIGN MINISTERS WERE DOCILE, OBEDIENT AND FOLLOWED ORDERS OF WASHINGTON AS ALWAYS. WE HAVE WITH US TONIGHT ONE LATIN AMERICAN GOVERNMENT LEADER WHO TRIED TO STAND UP TO YANKEES AND WAS SLAPPED DOWN BY MILITARY CASTES. (PICTURE SHIFTS TO ARBENZ) LATIN AMERICAN FOREIGN MINISTERS SHOULD BE SAD AND FILLED WITH SHAME. FIRST CASE OF GUATEMALA AND NOW CONFERENCE AT SAN JOSE. THEY HAVE BETRAYED PEOPLE OF A BROTHER NATION, A LATIN AMERICAN NATION VICTIMIZED BY LARGE NEIGHBOR. THEY HAVE PUT THEMSELVES ON SIDE OF POWERFUL YANKEES. DID NOT TAKE SIDE OF OUR SMALL BUT HEROIC NATION. NO, MILITARY CASTES, LAWYERS FOR MONOPOLIES, THOSE ON SIDE OF EXPLOITATION HAVE NOT TAKEN SIDE OF CUBAN CAMPESINO AND WORKER TRYING TO CARRY OUR AGRARIAN REFORM. THESE PRIVILEGED CLASSES ARE ON SIDE OF THE COUNTRY WHICH EXPLOITS US AND WHICH PROTECTS MOST REACTIONARY REGIMES IN WORLD TODAY. EVEN THOUGH SOME FOREIGN MINISTERS WERE IN SYMPATHY WITH US THEY RECEIVED ORDERS FROM THEIR GOVERNMENTS AFTER STATE DEPARTMENT PUT ON PRESSURE. (CASTRO HAS NOW BEEN SPEAKING TWO HOURS). BONSAL -END-