Castro Puts Cuba Into a Sphere of
Communism as People Roar Assent
By Neil Gilbride
KEY WEST. Fla. Iff) — Prime
Minister Fidel Castro Tuesday
put Cuba deep into the sphere
of international Communism, pro
claiming a socialist state, ruling
out elections and clapping harsh
new restrictions on the Roman
Catholic Church.
Cuban masses filled Havana’s
civic plaza for a mammoth May
Day demonstration and roared
their assent when Castro insisted
on Cuba’s right to choose its own
political and social future des
pite United States disapproval.
“We will not even discuss that
subject,” said Castro, whose
audience was estimated by Ha
vana television commentators at
three million. The telecast was
monitored in Key West, 90 miles
from Havana.
The multitude screamed “no,
no” when Castro asked, “do you
need elections?” He said Cuba
will do without them.
Calling priests “the exploiters
who came in the name of God,”
Castro announced church schools
will be nationalized in a few
days and foreign-born clergymen
will be expelled from Cuba.
Only about one-third of Cuba’s
750 priests are Cubans. Most of
the rest are Spanish and some are
from the United States.
Referring to several captured
invaders identified as priests, and
blaming the United States for fos
tering the ill-fated April 17 at
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tack on his regime, Castro warn
ed that U. S. cities ai'e “in dan
ger of becoming another Hiro
shima.”
He said churches will be allow
ed to remain open.
Castro said it was an historic
May Day because workers who
used to express their demands
“to those who were completely
deaf to their interests no longer
have to submit to those trials.
“Now everything the govern
ment does or can do has one sole
and exclusive purpose, which is
to aid its class, its people.”
Castro said, “if Mr. Kennedy
does not like socialism, we don’t
like imperialism. We don’t like
capitalism.” He said Cuba has as
much right to set up a socialist
state 90 miles from the U. S.
Coast as the United States does
to its form of government.”
Three Attorneys Elected
To Board of Governors
Of Alaska Bar Assn.
ANCHORAGE UPI — The results
of an election to fill three va
cancies on the Board of Gover
nors of the Alaska Bar Assn, were
announced yesterday by Anchor- ;
age Attorney Harold Butcher,
secretary of the Bar Association.
Associate members of the First
Judicial District elected Fred O.
Eastaugh of Juneau to represent
the district on the board.
Members of the Second and
Fourth Districts elected Earl Mc
Carron of Fairbanks, and Third
District members voted for David
H. Thorsness of Anchorage.
The three new board members
I will serve three-year terms. They
will be formally installed during
the annual convention of the bar
which opens here Thursday.
Herbert J. Klein
Says JFK Flans to
Attack Newspapers
SPRINGFIELD, 111. OP) — Her
bert G. Klein, press secretary to
former Vice President Richard
M. Nixon, said Tuesday he be
lieves the Kennedy Administra
tion is preparing to launch a ma
jor attack against newspapers.
Klein also said there is a threat
from the Justice Department to
apply antitrust laws against news
papers who own television sta
tions and against multiple news
paper ownership.
In a speech prepared for a Lions
Club lunch, Klein, now editor of
the San Diego (Calif.) Union, de
clared:
“At a recent Women’s National
Press Club ‘trial balloon’ dinner,
Edwin Guthman, special assistant
to Atty. Gen. Robert F. Kennedy,
said antitrust laws ‘should be ap
plied to prevent newspapers from
owning radio and TV stations and
vice versa.’
“He also urged the application
of the laws against group news
papers.
“This is blackmail — raw
blackmail. The implication would
be that those newspapers who
are considered friendly to the
administration would be spared,
but there is a club to be held
over the heads of the large news
paper operators who may be criti
cal of young Bobby or his broth
er.”
Klein said President Kennedy
hinted last week at an attack on
newspapers “when he implied that
news stories were endangering
American security.”
Klein said the press has a
responsibility, and is fully aware
of it.
The way to love anything is to
I realize that it might be lost.
—G. K. Chesterton
Borough System of Local
Government Signed Into
Law hv Gov. Egan
JUNEAU UP» — A bill which
will permit the establishment of
an organized borough system of
local government in Alaska was
signed into law Monday by Gov.
Egan.
Egan said that with enactment
of the measure “the major legis
lative implementation of the State
Constitution has been completed.'’
He emphasized that the bill
is “wholly permissive.”
“The people themselves must
set the machinery in motion,”
Egan said.
“Meanwhile, the Local Affairs
\gency of State Government
stands ready to advise all con
cerned with the bill’s meaning
and the steps necessary to give
it local effect.
“I am very well pleased,” the
governor added, “that this final
instrument of self government of
and by Alaskans is a reality.
“I look upon its enactment —
after study by three successive
sessions of the State Legislature
— as a step in our determination
for self-determination as signi
ficant as was Alaska’s ratification
of the State Constitution prior to
statehood itself.”
Car Is a Sex Symbol ?
1 MONTREAL UPi — To the male
j a car is not only a piece of ma
I ehinery but a sex symbol, says
I M c G i 1 1 University Psychiatry
Prof. Fred W. Lundell. “Men see
the convertible as a possible sym
j bolic mistress,” Lundell told a
| highway safety conference, “but
i they usually marry the practical,
I down-to-earth sedan. And it is
j significant that the hard top, a
combination of the two, is one
I of the most popular models in
recent years,” he added.
Stevenson Predicts U.S.
Will Suffer More Adverse
Votes in United Nations
UNITED NATIONS, N. Y. UPt
The United States will suffer
“more and more adverse votes”
in the United Nations from now
on, Adlai E. Stevenson predicted
last night.
The U. S. chief delegate said
that with nearly half the world
organization’s 99 members from
Africa and Asia “the West will
no longer dominate.”
“These are perilous times as
we pass on to the period in which
the centers of gravity in the
world are no longer in the West;
they are moving East,” Steven
son told a New York dinner of
the conference group of U. S. Na
tional Organizations of the Unit
ed Nations.
Loss of the pro-Western voting
majority may encourage neo
isolationism among U. S. citizens,
Stevenson warned. He called on
Americans to resist any such tend
ency.
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