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...Been Slandered!" Watching the show at his embassy, the Spanish ambassador, Juan Pablo de Lojendio, 53, who is the Marquis of Vellisca and normally the picture of diplomatic decorum, seethed with anger, jumped up and went to the studio. Bursting in, he bellowed: "I demand the microphone!" All Cuba, for which Castro tirades are the standard late late show, watched bug-eyed. Castro, taken aback at first, took charge of the show to shout: "A breach of conduct! You are not in Spain but in the Republic of Cuba." The picture went off the air, but the sound channel carried...
Nine minutes later, TV screens lighted up again, and Castro, chomping nervously on his cigar, told the audience: "He came here to create an incident. Lojendio must leave Cuba within 24 hours!" At a glance from Castro, Cuba's puppet President Osvaldo Dorticos shot up to the mike to agree: "The national dignity permits no other solution. This is official!" Solemnly, Boxer Joe Louis, a perennial Castro guest, rose from the audience to praise the rebel soldiers for the way they had "protected" Lojendio from the studio crowd...
...sight of Castro's anger, his labor-union bosses called out the mob. Descending next day on the Spanish embassy, deserted in the nick of time by Ambassador Lojendio. the crowd ran up the Cuban and Spanish Loyalist flags on the embassy pole, threw tomatoes, shouted and waved banners reading DOWN WITH FRANCO! OUT WITH LOJENDIO! TO SPAIN OR TO PRISON ! Another mob trailed Lojendio to the airport next morning, yelling as he boarded a plane for home: "Get out, you jackass...
...embraced the butcher Franco" on his recent trip to Spain. Philip Bonsai, the U.S.'s popular Ambassador to Cuba, was a different problem: Cubans have lately been cheering him in the newsreels. "How debased are those who applaud Bonsai!" said Revolución. "What an inconceivable alliance-Bonsai, Lojendio, the traitors, the war criminals, the big landowners and the thieves...
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