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Once in power. Castro promptly confirmed the suspicions that had bothered many reporters-but not Herb Matthews. After bathing Cuba in blood-551 drumhead executions in four months-Castro edged steadily leftward, toward the shadow of Moscow. What had been a tyranny under Batista remained one under Castro. But even as other newsmen, among them Ruby Hart Phillips, the Times's Havana correspondent for 24 years, reported these facts, Matthews stuck by his adopted rebel. Castro "insists he wants friendship" with the U.S., wrote Matthews in March 1959, "While welcoming American investments, he says he would prefer American loans...
Banker's Green. Through Castro, Che's revolution got to work. Firing-squad rifles cracked, and 553 Batista "war criminals" -most of them stalwarts of the old army -fell dead, after drumhead trials. Elections were put off indefinitely. There was a brief backslide when Castro, warmed by his welcome to the U.S. in April 1959, told Cuban newsmen traveling with him, "Don't worry. I will get rid of Che." He sent Che off on a world trip. The repudiation lasted only until the afterglow of Castro's U.S. trip died away. In November Fidel finally...
From the hoarse throats of 250,000 Cubans jammed before the presidential palace in Havana rose the chilling cry: "Pa-re-don! To the wall! To the firing squad!" By whipping up a frenzy of hatred, Fidel Castro last week got mob approval for a resumption of the drumhead justice that earlier put to death 551 Cubans accused as supporters of ex-Dictator Fulgencio Batista. Now the blood purge would be aimed at defectors in the band of barbudos (bearded ones) who lifted him to power, of whom hundreds are now in prison...
...time, there was a proto-union of Irish immigrant miners that violently opposed exploitation by American industry. Calling themselves the "Molly Maguires" after the famed Irish rebel,*they operated outside the law, tried and condemned opponents on their own. Blythe, who was obviously no labor sympathizer, records one such drumhead trial. John O'Brien Inman was the son of the prominent portraitist Henry Inman. Oddly enough, he himself never made much of a reputation. But his Moonlight Skating in Central Park is pure champagne: chill, sparkling, heady. And like the others in the exhibition, his picture helps fill...
...land where cautious men do not openly criticize the Communist Party. In the last nine months, the Communists have established themselves as the sole strong political organization in the new republic, dominating the mobs, the press, the radio and parts of the government. On their behalf, a drumhead People's Court, whose broadcast proceedings are challenging Cairo's Voice of the Arabs as the Mideast's most popular radio program, fills the Iraqi people with Communist-made opinions. Such is the nightmarish atmosphere that in at least one Iraqi city (Basra) the populace is firmly convinced that...