In the last four months the Book-of-the-Month Club has chosen for its membership The Coming of the New Deal by left-wing Democrat Arthur Schlesinger Jr., Only in America by left-wing Democrat Harry Golden, The Affluent Society by left-wing Democrat John Kenneth Galbraith, and A Treasury of Science, edited by left-wing Democrat and inveterate Communist-front joiner Harlow Shapley. Oh Truth, you many-faceted diamond, you!
It is more than revulsion over the summary executions in Cuba which is turning so many South and Central American powers against the Fidel Castro regime. Many of these countries fear that Castro, along with his fellow leftist and ally, President Betancourt of Venezuela, intends to embark on a crusade to overthrow all Latin American regimes of which he disapproves. A few days ago, Castro stated that Cuba will withdraw from the Organization of American States unless the present governments of Nicaragua, the Dominican Republic and Paraguay are ousted. Anti-Trujillo exiles are known to be operating in Venezuela, where they are welcomed, just as Castro’s forces were welcomed before Batista’s overthrow. And recently Radio Caracas has been blasting away at the Somoza government in Nicaragua. Latin Americans know well that machinery set up to overthrow a rightist dictatorship can be used with equal success against any other nation if it should suit the design of a Castro or Betancourt and his Communist allies. That is why the Castro delegation to Mexico was met so coldly last week.
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