Diario las Américas Newspaper, February 26, 1957, Page 10

Inter - American News for English- * Speaking people @. A. SAN ROMAN President FRANCISCO AGUIRRE Vice President and Publisher Antonio Ruiz Managing Editor Cc. w. Vice President 8. SMITH Vice President HORACIO AGUIRRE SMITH Vice President, Editor and Manager Fred M. Shaver Business Manager Eliseo Riera-Gomez Advt. & Circ. Mgr. Published daily except Monday — Entered as second class matter at the Post Office of Miami Springs, Fla., on February 8, 1956. EDITORIAL RUSSIA AND LATIN AMERICA Within the extensive framework of the inter- national activities of Soviet Communism, Latin| America has not been neglected,- but, on the con- trary, is object of multiple attentions in the part of high leaders of Russian communism. For obvious reasons, Moscow cannot exercise direct influence on the Latin American governments. However, there are units infiltrated in those govern- ments, which, in their condition of natives of the country and taking advantage of their political skill, favor, directly or indirectly, communist poli- cies. Generally they do it with great caution, so as not to lose in one moment what may become for them convenient and lengthy work. Disregarding these infiltration in the govern- ments, which perhaps are few, the most important is to observe the manner in which agents of interna- tional communism are interested in intervening in any political movement or of simple popular charac- ter, especially in the social field, that may appear in Latin America. That does not mean, of course, that such infiltration can be taken as evidence that those movements are of communist tendencies. But it is a fact that, as much as possible, the communists, following orders from Moscow, try to join any politi- co-social event, or even military ones, that take place in Latin America. This demonstrates the importance that Moscow gives to Latin America in‘ political matters. Russia knows how important the twenty Latin American nations are, with their total of more than one hundred and seventy million inhabitants. In the same way, Russia analyses in its true significance, the meaning for the United States—her strongest adversary—of the solidarity and sincere friendship of Latin America Soviet agents in Latin America make all kinds of efferts to undermine the foundations of Inter- American relations. Also any discrediting campaign againts the United States, that can be pushed in Latin American countries, has wholehearted backing, both intelectual and material, of the Moscow agents. All this is irrefutable proof of how much Russia is interested in Latin America, about which the Kremlin must have made, without any doubt, very extensive studies. This Sovietic attitude about Latin America should serve as a warning to the United States and to the twenty Latin American nations, and make them to close their rank and file on the field of reciprocal understanding and cooperation, so as not to give way to the dangerous communist infiltration which tends to separate the United States from the rest of the American Republics, and to obtain from them a position favorable to the political in- terests of communism, British, U. S. Culture to be Taugt in Latin America'in Special Course SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico, Feb. 25 (UP)— The Ponce Meeting of Representatives from six United States Catholic Universities, which ended on Saturday, discussed a Plan to offer a Special Course of seis months, with special stress on British and United States culture, to Latin American students. If it is accepted by the Hemi- sphere Universities, the Plan would start to be put im practice next January. Rev. Father, Theodore Hesburgh, President of Notre Dame Univer- SPANISH FOR BEGINNERS INK BUT AND What color is the pencil? é¢De qué color es el libro? aDe qué color es la caja? éDe qué color es el lapiz? zDe qué color es la pluma? De qué color es e) escritorio? éDe qué color es la mesa? zDe qué color es el papel? aDe qué color es la regla? ' gDe qué color es la puerta? aDe qué color es el techo? sity, who presided the two days meeting, said, however, that a high Percentage of Latin American stu- dents, attending United States Col- leges, find difficulties due to their lack of knowledge of the. English language, At the Conference, which was held at the Santa Maria University, in the city of Ponce, a plan for the organization of an Interamerican Superior Studies Center in this Institution, which initially would be patronized by U. S. Catholic Universities, was also discussed. TINTA SINO, PERO Y aDe qué eolor es For a better understanding between the Americas MIAMI SPRINGS, FLA., TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 26, 1957 KNOW THY NEIGHBOR By ANTONIO RUIZ EL SALVADOR — About fifty miles west of San Salvador, capital of this picturesque Central Ameri- can country, is the town of Izalco, located at the very foot of the vol- eano of Izalco, to which it gave its name. It is really twin towns — one Indian and the other mestizo, or a mixture of Spanish and In- dian — merged into one, but each still retaining distinctive character istics. Izaleo amd the Indian vil- lages in the region to the north of it retain the dress and many of the typical customs of oldentimes. Many natives. still speak the In- dian language there. The women wear loose blouses and long skirts, much like the costumes of Guate- mala, The fiestas in Izalco and any of these villages are famed for their colorful pageant, and show a quite different aspect of the Sal vadorean life than the one visitors see in the cities. The most interest- ing feature of Izalco is, of course, the voleano itself. With two ex- ceptions in México, it is the most recently formed volcano in the world, and one of the most active in Central America. It first made its appearance in 1770, when it exploded from the earth before the eyes of the as- tounded residents of the nearby city, and began to build itself up until it has reached a height of more than 6,000 feet. It has been called “The Lighthouse of the Pa- cific,” because the flames of its re- gular eruptions can be seen at night by ships far away at sea. The scars in its steep sides, made by the streaming rivers of lava may be safelly seen if one clibs the neighboring volcano of Santa Ana, which is a little higher than Izalco. It is possible to climb Izalco, but it is advisable to hire first a guide at the village. Only four miles from Izalco is Sonsonate, a picturesque town which is very proud of its magni- ficent Cathedral, with its seven- teen cupolas, the colonial church of El Pilar and, at a short distance out of town, the church of San An- tonio, where many miraculous cures have been reported. Not far from there are the Nahuilingo springs, where one can bathe in a beautiful swimming pool. Acajutla, thé port and beach resort of West- erm El Salvador, is twelve miles from Sonsonate. The stretch of coast between Acajutla and La Libertad, located in the east, is the famous Balsam Coastline. The valuable medicine and perfume base called “balsam of Peri” is obtained by tapping a special variety of balsam tree that grows along this coast and no- where else in the world Naturally, the Salvadoreans are annoyed at the wrong name given it is said, because the balsam used to be sent to Pera and there transferred to ships bound for Spain; but the name stuck and nobody would re- cognize any other. Going north from San Salvador, the visitor drives along the rolling green valleys of the Lempa River. There is a choice of two roads. One through Tonocatepeque, near, which there are some interesting | HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES TO HEAR ON GALINDEZ CASE FROM REP. CHARLES PORTER WASHINGTON (UP)— The House of Representatives has agreed to hear a one-hour report next Thursday on the Galindez- Murphy case. Rep. Charles 0. Porter was granted that time to present a de- tailed report on the disappearances of Columbia University professor Jestis Galindez and American air pilot Gerald Murphy, Porter indicated that his report will include an analysis of allega- tions that some Dominican officials had connections with or were re- sponsible for the disappearances of both men — Galindez in New York & year ago and Murphy in Ciudad Trujillo in December. He is also expected to refer to a Life Magazine article which alleg- ed that Murphy and a Dominican pilot named Octavio de la Maza were killed because they knew too much about the earlier Galindez disappearance. Life alleged that Murphy flew Galindez to the Do- minican Republic and that Galindez presumably met his death there be- cause of his published criticisms of the regime of Generalissimo Ra- fael Leonidas Trujillo. Meanwhile, Dominican Ambassa- dor Joaquin Salazar was summon- ed to the State Department. Department sources reported that Assistant Secretary Roy R. Rubottom discussed the Murphy case with Salazar for more than half an hour, These sources would not say whether or not the conversations touched upon the status of the Do- minican Consul General in New York, Arturo Espaillat. The Life article implied that Es- paillat was implicated in the Galin- dez disappearance, Porter has said the State Department told him it would declare Espaillat. “persona non proves the Life allegations true. grata” if its investigation State Department sources reaf- firmed after the Salazar visit that the whole affair remains under “in- tense investigation” — despite Do- minican Government that de la Maza killed Murphy for Personal reasons. assertions (A spokesman for the Dominic. an Foreign Ministry rejected the allegation contained in the Life story that Arturo Espaillat, Domin- ican Consul General in New York, was involved in the disappearance of the two men.) (According to the spokesman, “the Dominican Foreign Ministry and the American Embassy have throughly investigated “the Mur- phy case and “Dominican authorit- ies have presented concrete docu- mentary evidence showing the true facts.”) archaeological ruins, and crosses the Valley to Chalatenango, old colonial city in the mountains bor- dering the valley of the north, The other road, more or less parallel to the one of Chalatenango to the west, goes straight north to the Honduran border. Spanish Version Page 3 MEXICAN GVT. ASKED TO END TERRORISM MEXICO CITY (UP)— The gov- ernment was asked to end a “reign of terror” by bandits in Guanajua- to and San Luis Potosi states. Residents of the central México PRONUNCIATION TEEN-TAH SEE-NOH, PEH-ROH E @t lapis? {Deh keh kob-lohr.,. El libro es negro. La caja es negra. El lépiz es amarillo. La pluma es amarille. El escritorio es pardo, La mesa es parda.. El papel es rojo. La regla es roja. La puerta es blanca, El techo es blanco, Teth-ehoh, states appealed to the army and the Interior Ministry to send troops to halt the armed band led by a Spaniard, Jess Gonzélez Ca- zares, They accused the gang operating along the border of two states with responsibility for “murders, robberies, kidnaping, cattle rust- ling, usury, slavery and other crimes. MEXICAN ARTIST HIGHLY PRAISED WASHINGTON (UP)— A ser- ries of 12 variations on Mantegna’s somber masterpiece “The Christ Child” may turn a 23-year-old Me- xican artist into a favorite of New York's art world. This is the opinion of artists and AMBASSADOR ARIAS ARIAS TO SPEAK IN CEREMONIES HONORING LATE SECRETARY HULL MEMPHIS, Tenn. Feb. 25 (UP) With the purpose of honoring the memory of Secretary of State Cor- dell Hull, considered as the found er of the good neighbor policy, the largest group of Latin American diplomats ever reunited in a public act, away from Washington, will arrive in this city on the 28th. of this month. On that date, 29 Ambassadors and other diplomatic officials from 19 nations of the Western Hemisphere, who will take part in the diverse acts in which Hull will be remembered and which have been prepared by the Cordell Hull Pro International Education Foundation, will arrive in Mem- phis. Hull, statement from the Tennes- see State, developed the Good Neighbor Policy in America, dur- ing the 12 years he was Secretary of State in President Franklin D. Roosevelt's Cabinet. The Latin American Diplomats were invited to the acts by the Governor of the Tennesse State and President of the Foundation, Frank Clement. The visitors will make a tour of three days through the State, stopping in Nasville on the Ist. of March and in Knoxville on the 2nd., before returning to the Federal capital. One of the outstanding aspects of the program will be the dinner to raise funds for the Foundation, which grants scholarships to Unit- ed States students to go to Latin America. The cover charge will be $25.00. The principal speaker, during the dinner, will be the Panamanian Ambassador to the U. S. and ex President of the Republic, Ricardo Arias. ARGENTINE TEACHERS. IN STATE OF STRIKE ROSARIO, Argentina (UP)— School teachers in this second largest Argentine city and through- out Santa Fe Province, 10,000 strong, have declared themselves in a “state of strike,” in support of their demands for higher pay. Argentine schools are now clos- ed for the summer vacations. They are scheduled to reopen on March 11. The teachers said if their de- 2Es negro el libro? éEs negra la caja? zEs blanco el escritorio? 2Es blanco o azul el libro? E!l libro es azul. La pluma es azul. N Eh-neh, N Ehn’yeh, O Oh, P Peh, @ Koo, Si, sefior, el libro es negro, Si, sefior, la caja es negra. No, sefior, el escritorio no es blaneo, es pardo. Ei libro no es blanco ai azul, sino negro. El papel es grie La puerta es grie, Museum officials here who have seen the drawings by José Luis Cuevas executed after the famed Mantegna paintings that hangs in the National Gallery of Art. A show of Cuevas drawings opens Feb. 25 at a New York private gallery. Great interest has been evidenc- ed in the forthcoming: exhibition. Some 11 of his 35 drawings in the Bi sombrero es verde. La ventana es verde. mands are not met before then the strike will become efmective. ~ HEMISPHERIC EVENTS Latin American News in Brief current show have already been sold. Cuevas had a very successful exhibit last December in Havana's Palacio de Bellas Artes. In 1954 he exhibited at the Pan American Union here. Cuevas has been in Washington for the last month working on his drawings at the National Gallery and at the home of José Gémez Si- cre, director of the Pan American Union’s Visual Arts Division where he is staying. OFFER DECLINED BY ARGENTINE T. BUENOS AIRES (UP)— Argen- tina’s Provisional Government has declined an offer from the Ameri- can and Foreign Power Company to re-invest $89 million in the ex- pansion of power-hungry Argen- tina’s electric generating capacity, 8 company spokesman said. Oscar Diegoli, chairman of the local AFP Board, said he had been notified by Commerce and Indus- try Minister Rodolfo Martinez, that President Pedro E. Aramburu had instructed him to reject the com- pany’s offer. The sum the company offered to re-invest represents the value of the indemnization the company claims for the expropriation of some 15 of its plants in various parts of Argentina. The plants were expropriated during the Member Inter American Press Association For Liberty, Culture and Hemispheric Solidarity MBER 191 Fidel Castro Alive and. Engaged in Successful Fight Against Batista” New. York Times Correspondent Who Visited Him in Mountain Declares. REDS SLOW DOWN TRADE DRIVE IN LATIN AMERICA WASHINGTON (UP)— The So- viet Russian drive for expanding commerce with Latin America has slowed down as result of changing Political situations elsewhere in the world, according to best-informed sources here. Two years ago it was widely spe- culated that Latin America was about to become a major zone of Soviet commercial penetration, but it is presently believed that Mos- cow’s major economic targets have been shifted to Southeastern Asia, the Middle East and Japan. The post-Stalin regime was ob- viously interested in the Latin American potential, during its ear- ly stages. Experts here pointed out that Soviet trade expansion efforts are usually a “tool” to support political objectives, and from this stand- point they are not expecting an all-out effort in the Latin Ameri- can area. The waning threat of Soviet bloc competition in Latin America is al- so attributed to fact that Soviet Russia under current conditions cannot furnish the machinery and other “capital goods” which are most desired in under-developed countries, and cannot’ service such equipment even when commercial transactions have occurred. Latin American political revul- sion to the Soviet aggressions in Hungary may also have been a ser- ious check to Russian aspirations Havana, Isolated by Censorship, Does not ;. Know Scope of Opposition in Oriente NEW YORK — “The New York Times,” in a front page article signed by Herbert L. Matthews, outstanding correspondent and edi- torial writer, declares that Fidel Castro, Cuban rebel leader, “is alive and fighting hard and suc- cessfully in the rugged, almost impenetrable fatness of the Sierra Maestra, at the southern tip of the island.” The article states that “President Fulgencio Batista has the cream of his Army around the area, but the Army men are fighting a thus- far losing battle to destroy the most dangerous enemy General Batista has yet faced in a long and adventurous career as a Cuban leader and dictator.” Matthews continues saying that “this is the fist sure news that Fi- del Castro is still alive and still in Cuba” and that no one.connected with the outside world will know, until the article is published, that Castro is really in the Sierra Maes- tra, . adding that “the account, among other things, will break the tightest censorship in the history of the Cuban Republic. The Pro- vince of Oriente, with its 2,000, 000 inhabitants, its flourishing cit- ies such as Santiago, Holguin and Manzanillo, is shut off from Hava- na as surely as if it were another country. “Havana does not and cannot know — Matthews says — that thousands of men and women are for larger commerce with Latin America, BOLIVIAN AWARDED $56,000 DAMAGES FROM LONDON PAPER LONDON, Feb. 25 (UP)— A jury awarded Bolivian tin heir Jai- me Ortiz Patifio $56,000 damages today for being liheled by a British newspaper. It was one of the largest sums ever awarded in Britain in a libel case, The award was made as a result of an article headed “Pity These Patifios” which appeared in the London Sunday Graphic on Jan. 8, 1956. Patifio alleged the article infer- red he had treated his wife, former New York debutante and magazine cover girl Joanne Connelly, with sadistic cruelty and that this hdd caused a break up of his marriage. The verdict came after a week of testimony in which Joanne was labeled a “drug addict” by her 26- year-old husband. “T’m happy it went that way,” Patifio said when the jury award was announced. “I’m glad it’s all over.” 4 Perén dictatorship. Digoli said the company ori- ginally paid $117 million for the plants when it bought them be- tween 1927-30. The company had offered to re- invest the entire amount of the indemnization in new plants to re- medy Argentina’s power shortage. “The provisional government has pledged to compensate the com- pany for its seized properties, as a matter of “national honor.” PACKERS STRIKE GENERAL ROCA, Argentina — (UP) More than 15,000 fruit pack- ers went on strike for higher wages as tons of apples and pears rolled into warehouses here in the heart of Argentina’s fruit belt. The local regional office of the Labor Ministry. declared the strike illegal. HAITI’S GOVERNMENT IS RECOGNIZED WASHINGTON (UP)— The United States has announced re- cognition of the new government of Haiti headed by Frank Sylvain, The recognition announcement was made by the State Department, which said that Haitian Foreign Minister Evremont Carrie has been informed of the decision by the U. §. Embassy at Port au Prince. heart and sould with’ Fidel Castro and the new deal for whic: they think he stands. It does not know that hundreds of highly respected citizens are helping Senor Castro, that bombs and sabotage are con- stant (18 bombs were exploded in Santiago on Feb. 15), that a fierce Government counter-attack has aroused the populace even more against President Batista.” ‘The article which is the first of a series of three, continues stating that “throughout Cuba a formid- able movement of opposition to General Batista has been develop- ing. It has by no means reached and explosive point. The rebels in the Sierre Maestra cannot move out. The economic situation is good. President Batista has the high officers of the Army and the police behind him.and he ought to be able to hang on for the nearly two years of his present term that are still left.” Matthews points out that, how- ever, “there are bad spots in the economy, especially on the fiscal side. Unemployment is heavy; cor- ruption is rife. No one can predict anything with safety except that Cuban seems in for 4 very troubl- ed period.” Sylvain succeeded Joseph - N. Pierre-Louis on February 7 as head of the Haitian Government. Pierre-Louis, chief of the Hait- ian Supreme Court, took over from the Magloire Government,. which had been brought down Dec. 12 by strikes and demonstrations. Pierr Louis resigned Feb. 4. ‘i CHICAGO-BUENOS AIRES AUTO TRIP COMPLETED BUENOS AIRES (UP)— Slight, white-bearded John Noll, of Wau- keegan, Ill., arrived here, after driv- ing over 6,000 miles from Chica- go in a standard (Plymouth) car. Noll, 58, closed his law business eight years ago and has since driv- en through Europe, Africa, North and South America “seing the world and enjoying myself.” He said the only changes in the ear he used for the trip were spe- cial springs and extra carburator jets for high altitudes, Noll said he had long wished to visit South America and the desire jelled into action when he read a glowing Pan American Union pam- Phiet on the Pan American High- way. i Noll stated in colorful language thatthe “highway” does not exist below México, except in Pert where it is being well maintained. “Fidel Castro and his 26th of July Movement —he says —are the flaming symbol of this opposi- tion to the regime. The organiza. tion which is apart from the uni versity students’ opposition, i¢ formed of youths of all kinds. It is a revolutionary movement that calls itself socialistic. It is also na- tionalistic, which generally - in Latin America means anti-Yankee. “The program is vague and couched in generalities, but «it amounts to a new deal for Cuba, radical, democratic and therefore anti-Communist. The real core 6f its strength is that it is fighting against the military dictatorship of President Batista.” oh Matthews explains then how, to arrange for him to go to the Sierfa Maestra, dozens of persons in Havas na and Oriente took great risks to thelp him and, therefore, names must be omitted and places dis- guised, to protect those who help- ed him, and he adds: “From the looks of things, Gen- eral Batista cannot possibly hope to supress the Castro revolt. His only hope is that an Army column will come upon the young rebel leader and his staff and wipe them out. This is hardly likely to happen, if at all, before March 1, when the present suspension of constitution- al guarantees is supposed to end.” The article continues with @ brief biography of Castro, the son of a Spanish immigrant from Gali- cia, his childhood, his study of law, and his opposition to the Batista Government, which culminated on July 26, 1953, with a desperate at- tack, with other youths, on the Moncada Barracks in Santiago de Cuba. In the fighting there about 100 students and soldiers were killed and the revolt failed. Msgr. Enrique Pérez Serantes intervened to minimize the bloodshed and got Sefior Castro and others to sur- render on promises of a fair trial, Castro was sentenced to fifteen years in prison but there was an amnesty at the time of the Presi- dential election of Nov. 1, 1954, and he was let out. It was then he crossed to the continent and began to reorganize the “26 of July Move- ment.” “It 1s under this banner that the youth of Cuba are now fighting the Batista regime.” Matthews then describes | the landing of Dec. 2, 1956, and the fighting that has taken place since then, the rumors, etc, and says: “Because of the complete cen- sorship, Havana and the other Cuban cities crackle with the most astonishing rumors; one constant- ly encouraged by the Government has been that Fidel Castro is dead. Only those fighting with him and those who had faith and hope knew or thought he was alive, and tho8e who knew were very few and in the utmost peril of their lives if their knowledge was traced.” He says that on Feb. 15 Castro’s contact man got in touch with hit, and the trip to Oriente started, traveling mostly at night, Matthews wife stayed at the house in..the plantation of a sympathizer near the Sierra Maestra, and he continu- ed, with all kinds of precautions, to the camp, where he saw Castro and his brother, both looking healthy and full of enthusiast. (The article is accompanied bya picture of Castro taken at the scene), a Matthews says he asked Castro about the talk of nationalism, anti. colonialism anti-imperialism, and he answered: “You can be sure we have no animosity against’ ‘the United States and the American people. Above all, we are Hehe for a democratic Cuba and an ent ti-military; that is why we let. the soldier prisoners go. There ig:me hatred of the Army as such, for we know the men are good, aiid 90 are many of the officers, : “Batista has 3,000 men in. the field against us, I will not tell\you how many we have, for vi u reasons, He works in columng. pl 200; we in groups of ten to r and we are winning. It is a batth against time, and time is’ on’ side.” 3