Burmese, Cuban Talk At 20th Century Week

A Burmese plea to strengthen the U.N. by admitting Red China and a Cuban defense of the Castro revolution highlighted Saturday night's 20th Century Week Session at Sanders Theatre. A Lebanese citizen and a Negro South African in exile also participated in the panel discussion of U.S. foreign policy.

"The U.N. is not a Sunday School for good governments only," U Thant, Burma's ambassador to the world organization, declared. "The more countries dislike one another, the more important it is that they settle their problems through the U.N. rather than on the battlefield."

Defending the Cuban revolution as a movement to help the impoverished working classes, Armando Flores, Castro-appointed charge d'affaires at the Cuban embassy in Washington, won applause for his declaration that "we are not communists. We are only trying to raise the standard of living of our people."

Congo and Cold War

Oliver R. Tambo, a leader of the exiled South African United Front, urged the U.S. to avoid viewing all foreign policy questions in the light of the Cold War. Tambo felt the tendency of both the U.S. and the U.S.S.R. to view the Congo situation in the light of their mutual conflict had weakened the U.N.'s position there.