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...government graft. Purification also drove the bearded conquerors to set aside more and more of the constitution in order to purge the losers by firing squad. Castro's men, immune to such worldly blandishments as alcohol and money, found their grim satisfactions in rows of executed Batista henchmen...
World opinion in general and that of the United States in particular, was shocked during the past two weeks when the headlines glared with the ominous news of the execution of more and more of Batista's henchmen. The understandable reaction of many, if not most American editorial columns was one of disapproval and disappointment. Indeed, I went to Havana with such an attidue, but my mind was soon changed. On the basis of what I have personally seen and heard, I have no doubt but that the executions are deserved...
Those who have been tried and executed so far have not been the one or two shot assassins. They have been the most notorious and sadistic of Batista's henchmen, some of whose individual acts of cruelty number in the hundreds. They have been men like Jesus Sosa Blanco, recently condemned killer, who allegedly took the lives of 108 persons, and whose name has become synonymous with cruelty throughout Oriente province...
There is a longstanding feud between Trujillo and Batista. One of Batista's chief henchmen, ex-Sen. Rolando Masferrer, once led an expedition against the Dominican Republic with the intention of overthrowing Trujillo...
...bedroom oratory, and a speech to a mass rally of 600,000 Cubans, reached wide to justify the summary trials and executions: "They are much fairer than Niirnberg." For the present, Castro said, only Batista henchmen with more than six murders to their credit would be dealt with -"The criminals that we shoot will not number more than 400. That is more or less one criminal for each 1,000 men, women and children assassinated in Hiroshima and Nagasaki...