John Cates, U.S. Mission to U.N.

The Overseas Press Club presents Seymour N. Siegel moderating a panel of journalists with questions for John Cates, Jr., Counselor for Liaison Affairs for the United States Mission to the United Nations.

The panel includes:

Spyridon Granitsas, Cyprus Broadcasting
Kathleen McLaughlin, former United Nations correspondent for the _New York Times_
Joseph C. Peters, _McGraw-Hill World News_

Mr. Cates describes the role of his delegation and the "schizophrenic" situation in Latin America and the role of the Rio Treaty in relations in the Americas. He describes the fall from grace of Che Guevara and Fidel Castro and the failure by the latter to export Maoist tactics (à la Tito) to the rest of Latin America. Mr. Cates also describes the United Nations payment rules and declines to suggest US action in the Sovie invasion of Czechoslovakia.

Directed by John Baird.

Audio courtesy of the NYC Municipal Archives WNYC Collection

WNYC archives id: 151831
Municipal archives id: T5972