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Herbert Matthews Goes to Yale

People have been wondering what happened to Herbert L. Matthews, maximum U.S. booster of Fidel Castro, 1957-1959. Well one of the things that happened to Mr. Matthews is that he was appointed a Chubb Fellow of Timothy Dwight Colege, Yale University, where he spent all week, the week before last. There, drawing on his expertise in Latin American Affairs, he informed the Yale community that the Castro government is not Communist, and that whatever it is in Castro’s government that we cannot approve of, it is all the fault of the United States Government for being so unfriendly to Castro in the early days of his regime.

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William F. Buckley Jr.

William F. Buckley Jr. founded National Review magazine in 1955.

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Herbert Matthews Goes to Yale

People have been wondering what happened to Herbert L. Matthews, maximum U.S. booster of Fidel Castro, 1957-1959. Well one of the things that happened to Mr. Matthews is that he was appointed a Chubb Fellow of Timothy Dwight Colege, Yale University, where he spent all week, the week before last. There, drawing on his expertise in Latin American Affairs, he informed the Yale community that the Castro government is not Communist, and that whatever it is in Castro’s government that we cannot approve of, it is all the fault of the United States Government for being so unfriendly to Castro in the early days of his regime.