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Nothing will convince me that democracy has at last arrived on the Cuban scene. Fidel Castro and his entourage of pinko opportunists are only adding another act to the Cuban tragedy. Batista and Prio were not much as practitioners of freedom, but I'm sure most Cubans and Americans were shocked to hear dictatorese spout from the hirsute hermit so soon...
...compelled, though I am about ten months early, to nominate Fidel Castro as TIME'S Man of the Year. We here in America should take an example from him. He fought for a democracy for 5 1/2 years. How many days would we Americans fight to keep our democracy and freedom from becoming a dictatorship...
...managed to get an appointment for an interview with Castro. At the appointment hour I duly appeared, presented my pass and was admitted. Fidel (He is never addresed anything but "Fidel" (to his face) bade me make myself comfortable "for a few minutes" in the wide hall. When the "few minutes" dragged into two and a half hours the picture had changed considerably. I was no longer waiting alone in the vestibule. With me were no less than 17 other visitors, all more important than I. So I decided to try a desparate strategem. I entered the bedroom, closed...
...been said that there are two kinds of people--those who think and those who feel. If Fidel Castro had to be listed under one of these categories it would have to be the latter. A man of tremendous physical stamina, he seems to put all of his energies into persuading his listeners of the truth of what he says. It is impossible to talk with Castro and come away unconvinced of his honesty, sincerity, and heartfelt conviction in his own beliefs...
...question of Communism it is high time that a frequently recurring ghost be laid low. Fidel Castro himself is neither a Communist nor a communist sympathizer. Moreover, he sees no real danger of Communism coming into power as results of the recent re-birth of the strength of the labor unions. Although many of his soldiers have confided to me their willingness to attack the Dominican Republic in a two-pronged blow at Batista and Trujillo, Castro himself professes no knowledge of any such plans. His manner, moreover, suggested that Batista's threat to return to Cuba at the head...