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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, MARCH 14, 1959.
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The Hollywood rebel's sparkling report about the rebels of Havana
large farmhouse, where I was
met by a Captain Luis Perez. He wore a black scarf around his neck. He took it off and handed it to me.
This is for you" he said, explaining that a rebel giri had made scarves bearing The Insignia of the Castro movement for each member of his com- pang, "Commander Castro wishes you to have one of these."
Then we det off on tho wildest two-day jeep ride I have
ever had.
The engine of the car was an extra large one, giving the machine speed and power, so Shot we went at a breakneck pace, taking the bumps into our spines as gracefully as we could. But I was reminded of the rough Iding recently did in Central Africa whlie making The Roots of Heaven. Now we only went over roots.
Foiled again
We stopped at the home of a certain retired Army colonéi, a Castro sympathiser, and his womenfolk served us a dinner of stenk, rice, and tried bananon. It was one of the lust good incals I had until I got back to New York a couple of wecks later.
I noticed the old Cuban custoin, actually Spanish, that the women, after serving men
at one table, dined separately at
e luble of their own,
Cursed luck. · I hadn't seen
s girl in hours, and now the Available
were being ones more than ́ arm's
kept. nt length.
A HERO'S WELCOME for Fidel Castro sa bla movement sweepa to` power.
The girl secretary had
an orchid-and a gun
That's not a Cuban dimension.
Your Cuban
His face loolded soft. So did fernale
mate his hands, Actually his hands usually prefers a dimension were not soft anything but looked soft, something like 38-28-40.
that but, they.
with no veins We resumed
alment.deleate, the wlid rice
She had dark, thin black showing. They looked more like through the cane Beid region through
Emall hair, and luminous eyes which the hands of a man who had swamps, over streams, and getting deeper darted about abendly missed been behind a desk bistead of into rebel territory. Every hour nothing, end constantly reverted a machine gun. or two we had a new man enter to Commandante Castro himself. the car and slay with for a
and
The broadcast ended. Castro relay, guiding us nearer to raised his face, saw Castro's quarters. Wherever we stood. stopped, we talked with Castro's soldiers.
He was about my height: Once we zaw Batista that is, ft. 24in.; he had grace, prisonera arid we talked with agility of movement, and a sin- the Apparently they were plicity of marmer being well-treated by the rebels, hadn't quile exported.
Faally we pulled up in front of a big building, a sugar mill called the Central America. The Commander we were told, wae Inside,
Castro sat co a bed. I couldn't tanke out his face very well. There was that frame of beard; and he was busy; he had his eor
tiny radio otektu 10 a receiver.
On a table a foot or so away frein am there was a Belgian revolver, on ugly-looking weapon.
He paid no attention to us for a ume, and I glanced about the roobi It was medium-sized, sparsely furnished, with a make shit icok about it, but it looked well lived in, as it many people CLALE and went in these quarters.
Slender...
Getting no rise out of Castro himself, I turned to from his secretary,
here of the
volt, Celin Sanchez. She was In uniform, so was Cantato, Go was a third Agure, apparently an officer and aide of Castro.
They wore regular ton. Army coverall fatigue outts, and ne army runic was evident.
Cella Bancher wore a pink orchid pinned to her right shoulder. I shook handa with her and looked down at her waist, There was a 32-calibre *****revolver-kaited to: her ar
figure.
I wasn't so flabbergasted that my Hollywood cro was in my way thrown. I noticed at once that she wasn't Gullk lice the isual Cuban, but on a more slender scale. She was beauti fully formed and I put her down as 30-24-35.
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It simply wasn't the Imperial thing that I thought I might encounter, tile manner of a man who commanded.
This is Castro
My frat Impression was of his casual
quality, that it was underlain by reserves and force. He didn't lock Like a man who had been burnod in the He showed no signs of having lived five
sun,
His grip was firm, but not overstrong. Somehow I expected to And sinews of steel under my hand, but nothing was over- emphasised in his physical
make-up.
He wore glasses, and I noticed how, she began to talk with me, his steretary, Cella, watched out for him most considerately,
While he talked, she rem ved didn't his glasses, though_he notice it. She wiped them off and put than back on, aften- lively, but subily, not getting in his way.
us.
An interpreter translated for,
suggest," he said, "that you go to the village of Palma
Serina. That
has just plare beeri berated by the freedom ICTOCS+ and a half years in
and they will be happy the jungles, mountains, close to to aco you, and you will be trees, gulleys, and the earth. He able to observe how the Cubans hnd none of the wouther-beaten feel after we have taken them took I rather expected to see. out of Batista's hands."
For
It was then I asked him what should call him, and we fell to the Fidel-Errol relation- stup.
Happy faces...
ち
"You have complete freedom to do whatever you wish," said Castro.
"Talk to whoever you
wish, take all the plotures you want to take. I only want you to the
liberated Cluban citizens.”
"Can we take your pleture alo
sea the happy fees of
"Mine. My secretary's. Every= body's. You have complete free dom of the Press,"
Ho sald gomething thai, though it was interpreted to ane, I didn't fully Sot, but it implied that the freedom', he allowed was in sharp contrast to what we knew very well was going on in the Batiste camp. We had learned that a couple of American newsmen had been tossed into a Batista. clink.
He wouldn't be able to 200 much more of me for a day or so, he said Urgent matters had zdan, but he would spend much time with me very shortly,
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"Until then," he said, "roam about as you please You have the complete hospitality of the Castro camp, good luck."
As we took leave of Castro wo! were placed in the bands of diminutivo Friar Tuck, literally a merry priest, with sparkling 'ayes and a desire to help.
said he would take us for the In sparse English the priest right to his church quarters at the top of a high hill -
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From his window there was a magnificent view of the city of Santiago, 20 miles away.! When Santiago fell, it was explained, that would be the beginning of the end of Batista, for this was a port of outlet for 80 per cent of Cuba's economy, mostly the star export.
The priest, on the way, said: "Shhb, I have a. secret supply of water. You may have bath He didn't feel è was selfish, he said, to have some water about the church.
He took me to his quarter. I saw a simple ruce, with a desk is great disarray, On the desk were books in four languages.
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he must get the woman's viewpoint. near the photography, observation, and the Arturing, and Father Solis interviewing Castro's aides, ** dmself authorised) sne to, say. we 100-per that the Church eent pro-rebel.
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little room main chapel I got undressed, a bath, and was given A took
"Don't use too much water if taugerine to dine on,
you casi help it, please."
The photographer was shoot big overything in sight, talding pletures as best as he could reload hds camera; photos of
So that, while you got pictures in the magazines and news- Papers of a Costro leadership mode up of this one wod that one, with their college back- of Uzeir American grounds, training bahind the Poches there is this traditional, rooted
force that
I assured him I was a rebels, their arma meetings, partisan, albolt a swtudy, and Cubans living" in their huts, dusty one right now, and the shots of the bearded boys carry water would be preserved. 1. ng guns, priests busily running persuaded him that none in and out of Castro's head would be consumed. via the quarters, mouth, that I would rather be What kept Castro busy was impact of the same parched to death thần have that nogothiisomm were on for has so largely directed...the any of the “substance "pass-cho MATender of Senago. 1 affairs of Latin-pencing c between my teeth.
hung about this Central America
1 Anished the bath and ran Fugue mill waiting for any the grimy towel over my body. Chance I could get to see him. It wasn't exactly like The Nacionale Hotel or the Pork Lano in New York, but i fell botter, I didn't even mind the lack of soup.
-stepped
The go-between
tries for centurica.. Thesi lakka went on for two solid days. Apparently tho Batista · Army people wanbodi certain cond- lions from Castro which he was paqpared to grant, ut Cistro didn't want the Baileta men to remain in the key positions they- were holding; which was what they were holding out for..
Fidal fmally got his way, Whon, ho czne out from this
I knew what was going on outside the inside. Castro and his staff were monastery hungry as a bear, closeted with a Santiago priest, and a Bitle weary of the sight Padre Guzman. The piest was of the numerous tangerine trees. an intermediary, not wearing a There wda П fire rooster priest's frock, He was from the conference he had a very tired rouning.about the yard living amy chief at Santiago, and look, but there was a glow in fine on Cuban worms, and I they wwero niguing about the his face as if he had got what he tried to grab hám,
surrender of that city. If wanted. His nidos looked and Santiago fell, there would be a saled the same way too, new Government,
Then the thought occurred to me: Was I desecrating church property in any way? I recon- adored-and let him alone.
What impressed me was the Intensive roje of the priesthood In Castro's faithírs. »
In the morning 1 dined on a banana better fare thon I learned that his principal .. most were having, I understood adviser was a Father Bernard,
of El... took a allag of rum påd pre- Solla of the Monastery panod fce the new day of Cobre. He is a Spaniard from
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