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“Though we’ve got been given the popularity of talking at nice size, the Meeting needn’t fear,” Fidel Castro of Cuba said on the outset. “We will do our greatest to be transient.”
Whereas the Normal Meeting requests that delegates restrict their addresses to fifteen minutes, on 26 September 1960, he remained on the rostrum for greater than 4 hours.
Delivered only one 12 months after the Cuban Revolution that led to the overthrow of the United States-backed dictator Fulgencio Batista, Mr. Castro used his time on the podium to criticize US imperialism and its interference in Latin American affairs.
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Within the UN Normal Meeting Corridor, Fidel Castro of Cuba is surrounded by colleagues and well-wishers in the course of the 1960 basic debate. (file)
