Word: cubans
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Trading Notes. Never before had a country off U.S. shores been as unfriendly as Louisiana-sized Cuba, which engaged the U.S. in full-scale diplomatic debate, taking obvious relish in every word. Off the presses of the Cuban Ministry of State rolled a 14-page color pamphlet, loaded with "atrocity" pictures and designed to prove that the U.S. was responsible for "bombing and strafing" Havana...
...reply to the U.S. protest, Cuban Minister of State Raúl Roa delivered an 18-page "white paper," rewriting history, charging economic aggression and warning that Cuba will buy arms and planes "from whoever may be willing to supply them," i.e., Russia, if need be. He patted Cuba's new government on the back for "unequaled sportsmanship" in remaining friendly to the U.S. people, recounted "sacrifices" Cuba had made, e.g., selling sugar at low prices to the U.S. during two world wars. He brushed off Cuba's expropriation of U.S. property as involving only "transitory interests...
...hostility." The U.S. rejected "with indignation" any hint that the Government winked at clandestine flights to Cuba from 200-odd Florida airfields. And at week's end, the U.S. cracked down hard on the flights, while adding the friendly gesture of sending planes and ships to look for Cuban Army Chief Camilo Cienfuegos, who dis appeared in a light plane over central Cuba. The note also "categorically rejected" a favorite Castro myth - that the U.S. press is "engaged in a deliberate campaign to misrepresent and discredit the Government of Cuba." While on the subject of controlling Castro-hating exiles...
Dubois, 49, had been quite a while in earning the hatred of the Cuban mob. Among U.S. correspondents covering Castro, few had written more warmly during the early days of the revolutionary regime (Castro, reported Dubois, "has a deep reverence for civilian, representative, constitutional government"). But the longer Castro ruled, the more critical became Dubois, and Castro's Cuba lashed furiously back at him. Last September the National Federation of Gastronomic Workers ordered Havana waiters not to serve Dubois food or drink. Dubois took the ineffectual embargo (lifted after four weeks) in stride. Scoffed he: "I'll bring...
...shouting obscenities. There were also a few friends. "Don't worry," Jules Dubois told them, "I'll be back." Until he returns, his place will be filled by the Tribune's aviation editor, Wayne Thomis, who has never been to Cuba and has therefore made no Cuban enemies...