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a ee Oe er ny Or ere pater oe Oe ere A ee ee ee Ae en Et cee Se a | ~\ wih . NY 97-1792 carried an article captioned "Cuba" and subcaptioned "Winning Friends", The article deals with the FPCC and U reads as follows: "Ror the intellectual, politician or celebrity, a tempting proposition this year is a trip to Fidel Castro's Cuba, where a visitor can see reai revolution in ection . while enjoying the uncrowded comforts of a winter resort. The invitation usually comes from an overseas orficial of Castro's July 26 movement, who arrives bearing a free, first-class ticket on Cubana Aivlines and free reservations at such luxury hotels as the Habana Hilton. At rum-puncna receptions and over dinners of Morro crab, the friendly “eet soaxs up heady talk of revolution, sometimes from the ‘maximum leader" himself. "phe Loud Praisers. Trips are arranged to schools, - hospitals and agricultural co-ops, or to peaches, cockfights and nightclubs. All that the visitor. need contribute is a ' little quotable praise of Cuba or criticisn of the U.S. - L) ana the ‘dnd of visitor selected is usually glad to oblige. "zoe\Louts says ‘there is no place in the world except Cuoa where the Negro can €0 in the wintertime with absolutely no discrimination.! Jack Paar (who paid his own way down) deplores the ‘untruthful things I've read. about what was happening in Cuba, This man Castro is 'v) pelovea by these people,’ Existentialist Jean-Paul Sartre called the Cuban revolution ‘the. most. original_T have Jmown’ and dismissed the U.S, as a *headless nation,! "The Fair Players. All this sentiment fot a loud echo in Manhattan last week fromsomething called 'the Feir Play for Cuba Committee,' a group of 2& includifg Sartre, his friend Simone de Beauvoir, ijovelists Norman\Nailer and CO -17-