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...Will Bury." Cubans were prepared to believe the underground. Since taking power, Castro has worked tirelessly to mold his nation's youth into loyal-and militant-Communist cadres. Reading primers assure that the first name youngsters learn to spell is Fidel or Raúl, that their first animal stories are set on collective farms, that their first bogeymen are Yanqui imperialists. With piping voices, Cuba's fourth-graders sing a jingle taught by their energetic teachers...
With Matthews, however, journalistic participation preceded commitment. As the New York Times correspondent whose interview with Fidel in February, 1957, established the fact that the guerilla leader was still alive, and as the editorial writer who martialed the forces in opposition to Batista, Matthews indeed turned out to be the equivalent of an army division to Castro. Since the Revolution has not developed in Matthews' image; it would be simple to say that The Cuban Story has been written from a posture of disillusion; but it would also be inaccurate...
...State Department's refusal to believe in the plasticity of the Cuban Revolution, is Matthew's major regret. In his chapter on Fidel Castro, he complains: "Each year since 1957 there has been a different Fidel Castro to deal with, yet each year--each day, in fact--he is treated as if the ideas he holds then and the policies he is following will not or cannot change...
...island where the people are 90% Roman Catholic, Fidel Castro cannot feel secure until he either tames or destroys the church. So far, Cuba's Communist regime has achieved neither objective, despite a campaign of imprisonment, expulsion and dinning propaganda. Last week Castro's men attempted to interfere with a religious procession in Havana. Their reward was the first open anti-Castro riot by Cuba's increasingly restive populace-a riot that Castro's trigger-happy militia put down only by firing into the crowd...
Arriving in Miami, a Cuban underground agent code-named "Lucas" called for more arms and bombs to step up sabotage against Fidel Castro's regime. Carlos Prio Socarrás, a onetime President of Cuba, talked of forming a government in exile. José Miró Cardona, head of the ill-starred Cuban Revolutionary Council, was still shuttling back and forth to Washington, conferring with Kennedy aides. But for all the anti-Castro shadowboxing, the ordinary Cuban exile is becoming resigned to the idea that Castro, may be around a while longer. By last week, most of the approximately...