MEETINGS IN CUBA
Views Of U.S. Department (N Z P A -Reuter —Copyright) WASHINGTON, May 3. The Cuban Prime Minister (Dr. Castro) had put Cuba squarely in the Soviet bloc and had adopted procedures of Mussolini and Hitler, the United States State Department said yesterday, according to United Press International. In the long official statement. the department said: ‘Castro's mass meetings, which he calls elections, sound very much like Hitler's and Mussolini’s mass gatherings.” The statement, read by the State Department press officer (Mr Lincoln White) was a reply to Dr. Castro’s May Day speech on Monday in which he said his “people’s Government's'' mass meetings were better than elections. “Now this is really a tragic situation,” Mr White said. “For put yourself in the position of the Cuban citizen in Cuba today. “The Cuban has but one
choice, namely to say ‘si’ and even that not in a duly constituted election but a contrived mass meeting.'’ Even the Soviet Union had so-called “elections,” Mr White said.
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Press, Volume C, Issue 29506, 6 May 1961, Page 13
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