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...Rascals. Cynics. Men without shame," raged Prime Minister Fidel Castro, back on TV and so agitated that the pencil he uses for a baton in his harangues went Hying across the room. The targets of his newest attack were the conservative Havana dailies, Avance (circ. 22,000) and Diario de la Marina (circ. 28,000), which up to now have supported Castro, but are growing restive under his highhanded rule. Last week the papers sounded a loud, clear voice of opposition in Cuba, and the Prime Minister was infuriated. "They play the game for vested interests," cried Castro...
Avance and Diario had committed the error of strong but well-reasoned arguments against a new Castro decree boosting import duties to 100% in some cases; the effect, noted the papers, may well be to reduce Cuba to the levels of undeveloped Asian and African nations...
...papers did not back down when Castro turned his wrath on them; they countered with the harshest criticism Castro has met since taking office. "We are already very tired of so many threats," said Diario in a front-page editorial, "of so many unjust and gratuitous accusations." Diario went on to a withering analysis of freedom under Castro: "Public figures may say one thing in private but on the speaker's stand they say something else. That is not freedom of expression but terror and adulation . . . The idea has been created that everyone who disagrees is an undesirable element...
...Diario de Noticias reported that the Canadian passport U.S. Citizen Birrell had used to enter Brazil was not really false; it had just been altered to leave
Brazil's DIARIO DA NOITE: Certain leftist groups, especially Communists, are against Mrs. Luce. They cannot tolerate the energy with which she has fought Marxism...