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...revolutionary organization, the 26th of July Movement. Their program was radical, but democratic, pledging the restoration of the 1940 Constitution. The armed bands in the mountains from 1957 to 1959 were neither a peasant nor a proletarian army. They never totaled more than a few hundred men, who goaded Batista into initiating a campaign of arbitrary terror that turned virtually the entire population against him. In the fighting which followed, the urban middle classes suffered more casualties than any other group. Castro's first cabinet consisted entirely of upper and middle class professionals and intellectuals...
...second revolution was launch-almost immediately upon Castro's coming to power. Draper classifies it as a member of the Communist family of revolutions, since it turned against the middle class democrats who had overthrown Batista and began to regiment the proletariat and peasantry. It proceeded so far during Castro's first year in power that the Hubert Matos affair late in 1959 signaled the "point of no return...
...visit to Cuba before the present Communist regime seized power, I remember being astonished by the number of students, probably members of the Young Students' Progressive League, continually agitating in front of Batista's sumptuous palace. As I stood on the Havana sidewalk marvelling at their perilous behavior, I wondered, "why don't American students demonstrate such courageous and determined political feelings?" My Cuban sojourn was during that fateful month of October, 1956, when, even in Havana news of the Hungarian student rioters headlined all the papers. Indeed, the Hungarian freedom-fighter was also a student, and we all lauded...
Second, the insinuation that "student riots in the 'home of the brave' are incomparable to the purposeful demonstrations of far-off lands" simply ignores the facts. What, we ask, is more purposeful: a group of Latin Americans "continually agitating in front of Batista's sumptuous palace" or 4,000 clean-cut Harvard students shouting as one man: "Latin si, Pusey no"? And which is more effective; students vaguely "proclaiming their political ideals" in scattered cities or 1600 Harvard men concentrated on Cambridge making a specific demand: Pogo for President...
Died. Manuel Cardinal Arteaga y Betancourt. 83, Roman Catholic Archbishop of Havana, a slight, stooped man who opposed both Dictator Fulgencio Batista and Castro; in Havana...