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Fo Me ce ee BS oe te ri sae. = RC oe CORK IET “and terrorism on the part of former BATISTA henchmen, the government has refrained from invoking the death sentence against convicted counter-revolutionaries. Newsweek note withstanding, not one of these has been shot. ‘WHAT HAVE WE DONE...?' asks a new and hopeful generation | of Cubans, viewed with hostility in Washington and Wall Street, accused of ‘impudence! for seeking their independence, threatened with economic and diplomatic ‘isolation! in the Hemisphere, “Perhaps their crime is their youth. (The average age of the Cuban revolutionary leaders is 29.) Perhaps they have aspired toward too much, too soon, (Three thousand low-cost housing units built in the first year of revolution, more than 7,000 classrooms, hundreds of miles of new roads, 500 flourishing agricultural cooperatives, thousands of jobs created in new industries established through the voluntary contributions of a million Cuban workers. ) Perhaps the explanation is simply that there are, in the United States, powerful interests bent on frustrating the primary purpose of the Revolution: to give Cuba back to the Cubans. “Tt is true that the young leaders of the Cuban Revolution have little patience with considerations of profit and loss, in the face of poverty and human need. Nor have they any saving experience with the amenities of public relations, or the intrigues of dollar diplomacy, or the sophistry of journalistic 'facts' which distort truth. But if so, they are in the American tradition. Certainly they deserve a hearing, This much the American tradition owes them. This much we, as Americans, owe them. , ‘would you like to know more of the truth about revolutionary Cuba as it is today? ADDRESS YOUR INQUIRIES TO: @HE FAIR PLAY FOR CUBA COMMITTEE Box T249 TIMES, NEW YORK ” -5-