Castro’s Cuba

Americans are beginning to comprehend that a Soviet satellite may be established less than one hour’s flying time from Miami, Florida. The news dispatches filed to the New York Times by Mrs. Ruby Phillips, that newspaper’s correspondent in Havana, have long reflected a sharp awareness of growing Communist influence in Cuba. They have been a much needed antidote to the political poison which Herbert L. Matthews, also of the Times, has spooned out in his partisan efforts in behalf of the Castro dictatorship.

Her new book (Cuba: Island of Paradox, McDowell, Obolensky, $4.95) should have a powerful impact upon the minds of those Americans who are still under the influence of the Castro myth. Mrs. Phillips doesn’t pull her punches in criticizing Castro’s Cuba. “There is no doubt,” she writes, “that the Communists wield tremendous influence in the Castro government and in the labor unions. Their methods of placing men in key posts are extremely effective.”

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Americans are beginning to comprehend that a Soviet satellite may be established less than one hour’s flying time from Miami, Florida. The news dispatches filed to the New York Times by Mrs. Ruby Phillips, that newspaper’s correspondent in Havana, have long reflected a sharp awareness of growing Communist influence in Cuba. They have been a much needed antidote to the political poison which Herbert L. Matthews, also of the Times, has spooned out in his partisan efforts in behalf of the Castro dictatorship.

Her new book (Cuba: Island of Paradox, McDowell, Obolensky, $4.95) should have a powerful impact upon the minds of those Americans who are still under the influence of the Castro myth. Mrs. Phillips doesn’t pull her punches in criticizing Castro’s Cuba. “There is no doubt,” she writes, “that the Communists wield tremendous influence in the Castro government and in the labor unions. Their methods of placing men in key posts are extremely effective.”