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3 was the main speaker. The memorandum reads as follows: NY 97-1792 "the meeting at the Community Church was well attended with only a sprinkling of unoccupied seats. I wouid estimate that at capacity the church could seat about 600 persons, The audience comprised a fair nwaber of Spanish speaking people. . VU. "yr.| Papandrew opened the meeting indicating that its purpobe was ‘to weigh the facts about Cuba and the revolution and balance it so that the truth may be knovm'. For any objective observer it was obvious from the outset that the 'facts' tne ‘truth’ were not going ' to be weighed but weighted to favor the Castro regime. U "Papandrew announced that the program would 4inciude Charles Santos Buch, M.D, from Cuba and presently on the staff of the New York Hopsitai and Mr. Waldo Frank, author. when Frank was introduced five young Latins seated up front on the left side of the auditorium facing the platform stood up and prolonged the applause. "Prank, in his late GC's, white-haired, balding and mustachioed, spoke softly and pedantically about the history of Cuva and its relationship to the United States. He maintained that the pattern of the U.S, policy toward Cuba 4n the 19th century was that ‘Cuba should not be independent pecause it might fall into the hands of England or France; that Cuba must be kept in the hands of Spain where it would be ripe to fall into the lap of the United States'. He cited Thomas Jefferson on the importance of Cuba to the U,S.; with the implication that ‘even at that time! the U.S, coveted the natural resources of Cuba. He said that Jefferson's position was that ‘we must have the Floridas and Cuba'. He stated that John Quincy Adams called for the annexation of -19-