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...Mississippi's Senator James Eastland. Eastland's witness was Major Pedro Luis Diaz Lanz, former head of Castro's air force, who says he was fired for fighting Communist influence in the armed forces (TIME, July 13). Cuba's No. 1 Communist, Díaz Lanz charged, "is Fidel himself." He added that on a trip to Venezuela, he saw Castro go into a hotel bathroom for a private, two-hour talk with Venezuelan Communist Boss Gustavo Machado. Castro exploded in rage at the committee-"those political simpletons who seek to put a premium on treason...
...blackmailing us with Communism," Castro yelled. "Everything here which is promoting the ghost of Communism is promoting foreign aggression. The President is trying to draw up a plan exactly like Díaz Lanz. Maybe he can send for 15 North American agents and install them as ministers here...
Most Cubans were still convinced that Castro is not the Communist that his old friend, Díaz Lanz. says he is. But by outlawing anti-Communism in Cuba, he had proved that, willingly or not, he is the Reds' best tool in Latin America since Jacobo Arbenz fled Guatemala in 1954 and eventually fetched up in Prague, Czechoslovakia. And he is a strongman of terrifying power. No Cuban could feel safe when one man could, with mere words, so quickly reduce the President of his country to the status of a traitor...
...books, the Dominicans could hope for some assistance. The invasions crushed last month by Trujillo came from Cuba, and Dominican Ambassador to the OAS Virgilio Díaz Ordóñez charged that a new, 3,000-man force was training in Cuba, backed by 25 Venezuelan warplanes. Under terms of the 1947 Rio de Janeiro treaty pledging mutual assistance against aggression, the Dominicans demanded a fact-finding mission...
...long and bloody record. "The Rio treaty is not a piece of paper at the service of dictators!" shouted Cuba's Minister of State Rauú Roa, and other delegates nodded their agreement. Cuba and Venezuela lined up enough countries to vote down the Dominicans. Ambassador Díaz Ordóñez scrambled to his feet and withdrew his motion just in time to avoid defeat...