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Lillian Lily Hellman — Part 4

93 pages · May 10, 2026 · Broad topic: General · Topic: Lillian Lily Hellman · 93 pages OCR'd
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(ol sto Guevara and publicized by the ‘ts confessed the extretsely SeTiom . thereby contradicting theit previ uecess of their economic plans, as -arian Reform." as been establizhed over these whe qwernment not only has stiffened the mits for departare DEt also now om vations by all as lines. A coment to confiscate ell poasessiom® s in the United States for more thew arm of stay in other foreign count be jeft of any citizen's POSeeeeiOgs . 1 ~ the Cuban Government and the offf- ave been emphasized. . “ta United Revolutionary Patty as ombers of the 26th of July Movement alista Popular (the traditional Cubas just step the Revolutionary Integrated with Anibal Eecalente - @ long stand- st feeder before Castro took over - aw se Twenty-second Congress of the Come ‘SR, beld this month in Mos: - eee a day during Se ptember. aken during the April invasion acd omP -enewal of firing squad activities, Com with Fidel Castro's regime, thus reaming counties of America that beve 5° ith Cuba. ament denied the International Red Croper ted right to function in Cuba to aid wed dating the April invebrons. NT KENNEDY: cmational Communism. We would hare ee anism as the central theme of Lacin- Amer ides ta Come. -sident, ap the vies of such cautious aml as the Manchester Guardian and The O} ‘co has undone moch of the good your af yeved in the world arene, and substaotieliy ot Adlai Stevenson's effectivences in tertat to impose our will in the Caribbtemm, ~ of the other American states, aod io vir rican agreemencs, has created widespread nited Saates will teoriene its foreign policy Soviet-style power politics. Further inter :] give the lie to ow professions af repo ae, aad wil) make at mech more diffs i f tag ' iid HAE OT the c Usimed Sistet Gove ol 4 sent @rift towards American mililary ia support for the mvasson of Cubs by rad the Communist * im detach the Castro te8 ee sresemption wf ot a diplomatic detente d oe ay other constructive efforts OF eliminating PF OO erica the socéal conditions OF which toile feeds. i blac dis- sed that there bas pees ao fietle pe i cemative 5 to present U. 5. Cuban policy. Fit. the weTiCties epuons, debate ‘ ’ thet rban on the decision fC pecervene- In the non has bees circumscribed by oe ee ne 153 ovet ior td moe ¢ eatly decis:08 it) Cast i" . rice! scquicscence qually uperint eee aiternetives, ne ke foolish to sugge 4 thet is 2 ® ite nd patience. end an ennewme- a od. coling eit of the Cuban the sincerity cucial and revealing @ene- sibility for oew dire ctioms conlidence enough in the py this is#ue as at ve to Basu tespon is. Surely we to accept thin © halle age - par species ie -~y \ 3 i r9 a CRAHhISE AN OPEN LETTER (Oo THE HARVARD PROFESSORS And Members of Other F which appeared in the Ne (wenty-three years after MUNICH, cht samt policy of ap- sant followed vowerd Hitler, which led co war and de- wn, is being GOW advocated roward toralicarina communism a peep of Noch American professors. ‘Th bistory of the post-war period shows thar it is jest a6 to appease totalitarian COMmUnISE BS it was to ap jurian Nazism. Due to this policy of appeasement va. democracy apd freedom pefiered the foss of Ewope. Due to ie policy of apprasemcat and ¢n- ricem@y toward those whom some distinghished North Americas labeled ‘‘pgratiagn reformers: China ar Jost. On hand, if chere stil! is a present aod a terure for democ- freedom in Greece, South Koren, the Philippiaes and it is beceuse in these countries commpnist eggrecs ion we wth dvemener : -& + A }. Rice if oll, eochame de they stor to Fila! Ceowr depute a2 communistic. They mention bis “particular brand of qx revolmion,’! and they eadorse the fourth recomacndation ode resolution adopted by the Cubs Procest Meecing beld at ecerd University on April 26, 1961, which apparently de- des ut as @ ‘totalitarian sationsiiem.”” However, eco deci) aod politica) suructure of Castro's Cube closely felipe the Marxist-Leninist pacers of communizetion. Mistet Fadl Castro, Major Ernesto Guevara and the Cubso bas sador @ Pisin, Mister Faure Chomon have been explicic enough: it Caso bas recently declared chat his cegime is the First ist republic of America; Mister Guevara more thap a year scribed the Cuban revolution as Marxist, Mister Faute hes preciecty defined i ae communism. The Cabao say that their revolution is communis and its crecowe tioning beer them ow THE BOSTON PROFESSORS DY SEEM TO BELIEVE WHAT THE CUBAN LEADERS PUBLICLY STATED. Secondly, altbough rhey do not call Castro’s regime istic, they accept its dependence oo the communist bloc. 15 dependency is suributed to the wmismkea policy fol- by the Goverment pf the United States. Thus their d American economic Bgaression is blamed for the nist ceiemtation followed by Castro. This is not 60. Wine qoti-Americanise of Casmo’s communism Tar shown very beginning at Sierta Macatre by their iowubeing sions and the kideapping of American cMizens. ti cof January, 1959, the dey Batiste fled Cubs, violently D. of che civilian section of the 26th of July Movement. ‘ Cube the secessar « a half. x a ager at ‘™ UNITED STATES Fi- \ = CUBAN REVOLUT, \ fibAN RENOCUTION WITH 4 GIFT IN EX- habe vemnd malicious and unfounded eccusations and “blaming hin propaganda campaign agsinn the United asa e is counry fet che explosion of the abip “La the weet ic socalled “bombardment’' of Havana, a5 ican pe ous cEpropriations without sey compensation Cowes eee, Preceded che first Ametitan measure Toom. a & interests: the suppression of the prefere otia] . prenident ol the Ne chat was practically requested by lho said the National Bank of Cubs, Major Ernesto de used by “Vaakee ‘operialine of oppression aod prefercatial peices. The dis ie that Fidel Castro and part of the core of the 26th of July Ne communista to begin with. Some of the non- Pp _—e revolutionaries who served in the government bryartien were under the mistaken notion that Fidel Cas dintapeobed hoes in his thinking; while others ould setfy bt ecrican profeasocs, believed Fidel shee sity is ways sad gite ap communisa.Needic ss ;. arava a, case. There are severs] rearons wits ne ot stro" communist affiliacion. It is ol the affict | oman ere Card-carrying, fototious ed Sicisl parry Then there are different shades ia igodamensat Kurerbchev's, Mao's, Tito's, etc. re ferences of ideology, but racher ler # cloak of preudodemocrarjc verbiage, the rr ae Re CRA fate OS JECENTUMION, bt tot ‘ =, Uviderst nal FE eeenen i ied tty of Bevens Daiveraty of Haven + Medicine ENTE BZA Miepbar of the : umme: Bohoo! Vel tticree tre Saart juris ereer aad Follow of As of qrican mimeograpbed liveratare wes used for che indat- cqnomically, comtrary te whet the distinguished American sers teem fo state, the United States continued to pre- marchendicn ond services, even oe were net forthcoming. This continued for s Tee Cubans owed then more than 200 million the United Stares. Yet the United Scaccs cominaed tieguerked fhe tata! owed fe aculties who signed the Statement on Cuba w York Times on May 10, 1961 communizing process of Cube proceeded speedily and deceit- fully. Mr. Blas Roca, the traditional leader of Cuban ¢ommeu- sism, bas celled this process “sevolationary cumning, laistori- cal cunning, the people's cunning.” 4, The North American profeasors seem tO chat ComsnManist countries do set abandon communixm fost be- cause they might establish of mein in commercial relanions with nations of the free world, 14+: China and Yugoslavia. They also seem 10 forget that aithough it may be ut that com- like any other wonisa feeds on enjuet social cacditions, just form of radicalism, ff is histeicolly inexact to postulere thet communism comes fo power merely becouse of those canditions. Social injustice, alwaye exploited by communism, bes usually comiibaed in Latics America to the tise af non-t ommuaist left- sist popular morcme ats, pempegeeie and econemy, te dicratorship ia search of represepimtive democracy. freedom, justice, the 1940 Cossticaion and even preset soc io-t C ODONREE progress. Regardiass of exploitation end enderdevelopamnt, in we country of the warld kos communism tttoined power by the will of the propia, bet forcibly by 0 minerity, allegedly acting in the nome of the people and by force of arms. Eves afict more chan two years of alj-ow communist propaganda, Casco is #0 comviaced be dors not have the majocity of the Cuban people with him chat be fas officially ruled ou elections. It in aot Fue to state that the way to avoid the ¢stablish- mot of a Communist dietatorsbip ot to bring abow its downfall! is by ceaching the people chat social reforms aft compatible with democratic instivations, There att examples of oak compatibilay in mesy coumtics of the Free Warld, which enjoy an advanced ‘social jostice and repreacttative democratic Fre- gimesncd these teachings have sot arrested the world-wide expansion of communism. Leninism is essentially the ductriae of teking and maintaining power by meens of force; and once commeniat porty efteins it or is in the process of teking ever, ## can only be contained by force. A force, neodians te sey, thet would be at the service of Law and Secial Justice with Liberty end 53. Bet we must cet forget thet Lew, Jes- fice and Liberty cennot being chowt downfoll of communism al- ready in a position af power moraly through their prestige. 5. Iacerestions] Law ceremi!y ruling the Wencere Henis- phere, and more specifically, the ‘Charter of the Organization of Awerican States of 1948, the loter-Americac Treary of Mutual Assismace w Rio de Janciro Treaty of 1947, the 1954 Decle- ration of Caracas acd the Decksrations of Chile asd Sas jeué of 1959 and 1960, respectively, net only meke possible but rather domend the joint action of the American countries opefnat communist regimes such as Cobe's. ft is perhaps te protect their Menich-like conclusions thet the Americar professors avoid the abe! of communist fer Castro's regime. 6. By the very use of farce, which no repels che Ameticas ofessors, Casto bat suppressed the rights and freedoms of Feet Ce expelled moot of the acaborn of the 5-cret Comrt ond of he Joliet Adedniowadl emceptios of eleet of Feirons ip ria areas without spititun) assistance; he hos orecune imare then « thousend Cubons and confinwes te de se; 150 on jet unbelievable cosditions more chan br 12000 Pereoes: be bas taked overall schools and imetirions of keer mB. nsing them for a systematic brait-washing- be -has over all public aad reise eniervine wiecleding the as saken and bicentenary University of Ha ioe, ee nins Se Rey ieicnt cally all ied professors, taking away their aniversity velone be use y were not Willing to submit che jt inde Mleace of houghs and follow the government line; be bas nupeereed the free om o are anions and hee done away with the social cone “ 2 the workers, who today find themselves ae th mercy of a single and all powerful maseec, the Seace; be haz aslaved peasants, forcing them into coeimatees uaader ‘mili " rule; | as deprived the Cubnas of their tights to imvl mination by suppressing elections. He is denying Ce he i traditional American rights: che cight co life, freedom aad the pursuit of happiness. DO THE D ASK OF THE AMERICAN COVERNME NE Thay racy wir UNDERSTANDING TOWARDS ALL THESE HORRORS? mn It is tather depressing co see iner PA Fidel Casto, oF vaee won of he eee fist me ae of force Om mu, has mot deserved the comdcmnati ntetnations| guished American professors, who have written 2 othe distin” oor a closed lecter to Mr. Castro asking of bi Beitber AD Oper respect for the rights aod dignity of man im minimum of May 17, 1961. : - . NOD, Pu -
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