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PAGE 3—THE BULLETIN, June 10, 1961
TAUGHT 93 YEARS IN CUBA
LETTER FROM CUBA PAINTS PICTURE OF
HATE. PERSECUTION AND TERROR
Brother Laurent, 87 (left),- oldest member of the 104 Chris
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and a veteran of 54 years on the island. Brother Laurent,
in addition to his 39 years in Cuba, has also taught in
schools in California and Louisiana. Both are natives of
France. They are en route to new assignments in Latin
America. (NC Photos)
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It was a typed letter, in
Spanish, single - spaced, and
about three pages long.
It had come from Havana,
and the writer said “there will
be no signature so they will
not know I am writing.”
By some quirk of circum
stance, it had been passed by
the censors. Perhaps they only
check part of the mail; but
perhaps — and more likely —
it was read by a censor whose
sentiments agreed with the
letter, and who deliberately let
it go through. Not everyone in
Cuba today agrees with the
dictatorship established by Fi
del Castro; Cuban refugees in
the U. S. estimate that 8 out
of 10 in Cuba are against him.
However, they point out, this
does not mean that these are
willing to gamble their lives to
fight Castro.
The letter describes v/hat
happened in Havana during
and after the ill-fated invasion.
It paints a picture of hate, per
secution and terror — and yet
one of high trust in God, for
the writer says:
"It looks like it is our role
io suffer all this fo show the
atmosphere here, what kind of
a regime this is, but inside my
soul I am confident because
this is in the hands of God
and I hope He will help us."
BUT LET THE WRITER
speak in the words typed
anonymously to a friend who
knew from whom it came:
“I hope you will get this let
ter. I am writing this letter
without knowing whether you
get it or not, and with the
hope that it will pass through.
Of course, there will be no
signature so they will not
know I am writing . . .
“I notice by a letter . . . that
you are looking at it always
from a high point of view and
a Catholic point of view,
thanking God for the fact that,
you and your children are safe
and giving up and forgetting
everything that is material. I
think this is the only sensible
attitude. It is in God’s hands.
And besides, there isn’t any
thing else that we can do.”
The writer had expected that
the U.S. would have full news
of the invasion, because there
had been some reports over
the Voice of America. And
then:
“I will try to tell you about
the nightmare, that in such a
short time our beloved country
has been transformed into a
place of hate, persecution, ter.
ror, where no Christian can
live and no peace can endure.
It is so sad, so incomprehen
sible.”
we all knew he had Migs . . .
They (the invaders) came to
land without any protection
against airplanes. Apparently
somebody had squealed, be
cause they were waiting for
them . . . The ships were sunk,
the people were machine-
gunned, they took a lot of pris
oners.”
The writer also points oui
ihai "ihe underground here
didn't know of such an in
vasion and apparently ihey
were waiting for some signal
that never came through."
The prisoners have “been
presented by TV in a sort of a
trial which has no precedent
in the history of the world. In
very special cases you could
see some of these men had
been drugged, some others
looked like spies ... In any
event they have said that it
was U.S. mercenaries, but we
have seen that all of them
were Cubans. They were not
mercenaries or Americans.
Many of them were very well-
known people . . . Many of
them friends of our and
yours . . .”
THE WRITER POINTS OUT
that Castro had a “terrific
Russian and Czechoslovakian
armament, 1,000 times better
than Batista ever had.”
“It is no mystery,” the letter
said. “We have seen Russian
tanks pass by many times and
AND THEN THE WRITER
describes what happened in
Havana the first night of the
invasion:
“On that very first night
they jailed thousands — all
the people of whom they had
a little bit of suspicion, and
all the well-known Catholics
from the Bishops to many,
many priests, to all the leaders
of Catholic organizations. We
don’t know yet how many be
cause some people say that
here in Havana they were near
to 80,000. There were places
where four or five thousand
were put together.
“The families didn’t know to
which place they were being
taken and no food was given
to them. This remained like
that for the first two or three
days, until little by little rela
tives found out where they
were and brought them food.”
"The writer reported that
the government "kept on
searching. Of course in some
places ihey found arms, but in
other places there were no
such things. They then would
take away the food, the mon
ey, the passports — anything
they felt like taking away, in
cluding automobiles. It became
a city of ierror.
“Later they started to re
lease the people they had ar
rested, but there are still many
held by the government.”
THE LETTER then describ
ed the May 1 parade. “The
propaganda was terrific • and
they made attendance cornpul
sory to all. Not even American
certificates were of any excuse
not to go. They went to all the
houses and asked them to sign
whether they were going or
not, Of course, the parade was
fantastic and very large be
cause everybody was forced
to be there. There were about
100 Russian tanks there.
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“In the evening Fidel Castro
spoke on the socialistic repub
lic of Cuba and said all kinds
of things against the priests.
He told them to start packing
their things because the decree
would come out to expel all
the foreign priests except
those who defend the revolu-
ion. The other point was that
they were gQing to nationalize
11 the private schools, includ
ing the University of Villane-
uva.
Castro said that religion
cannot be taught in any place
except in the church, and that
only by being very careful not
to conflict with politics. And,
of course, here everything is
politics, according to them . . .
You cannoi mention the Pope
. because "the Pope is a
Rome priest and he is a for
eign priest."
“The decree is not out yet,”
the letter continues. “However,
it is being applied already . . .
All the parish schools have
been taken by the governmnet.
The nuns have been isolated;
sometimes you cannot go in or
out of these places. The atmos
phere is one of desolation. All
of them are getting ready and
have their papers in order to
leave.”
The writer noted that “I
don’t hear Fidel’s speeches, so
that I can keep my serenity,”
but “this morning I was told
that Fidel said he is going to
bring over at the end of this
month 250 Hungarian priests.
You can well imagine that
these must be the Hungarian
priests under the direct order
of the Hungarian government.”
I can see that they are talking
and they are holding meetings
— and, meantime, this regime
is getting stronger and sirong-
REGARDING THE
SCHOOLS, the letter says:
Many fathers are in a panic
to take their children out of
Cuba. It is a good thing that
the classes are over because
they are planning to reorgan
ize the new schools so the chil
dren will not get any teaching
which is Catholic. The Cath
olic teachers are in agony be
cause they are told that they
have to sign unconditionally
with the revolution, and you
know what they must teach,
and the Catholic conscience is
against it.”
The writer says that “the
Catholic associations all have
been taken, and in many cases
they have destroyed every
thing they found in them. Ev
erything is done by force.”
THE LETTER ENDS on a
high spiritual note that indi
cates the fine Catholic back
ground and mentality of the
writer:
“We can do nothing but pray
and offer to God these suffer
ings and ask Him to give us
serenity and strength. You
face whatever He wants each
of us to face.
“I have been very lucky and
I think He has protected me in
an invisible way. Although I
have had to forget and leave
many things I have loved very
much, and for which I have
fought all my life, it has been
done for Him and this is the
way He wants it, so I hope la
ter I will have peace.
“What is going to happen
here? Everybody is very pes
simistic.
“It looks like it is our role
to suffer all this to show the
atmosphere, the kind of a re
gime this is, but inside my
soul I am confident because
this is in the hands of God,
and I hope He will help us. I
don’t know how.
"The hope I imagine will
have to come from whatever
is agreed by ihe Organization
of American States because
the United States alone does
not seem to be in the spirit of
aciing by itself militarily. This
is not changed with words or
speeches or papers. It will
have to be changed by action
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Prisoner of
Castro
Says Party Teaches Disrespect
Archbishop Refuses Maltese
Leftist Challenge To Debate
Alberto Muller, a Catholic
youth leader in Cuba, has
been seized by the secret
police of the Castro regime,
according to word from Ha
vana. Mr. Muller, for many
years a member of the Cath
olic University Association
in Havana, was a leader of
an anti-communist organiza
tion called the Student Direc
torate. The Directorate has
expressed fears that Mr.
Muller would be executed
secretly, to avoid student
protests throughout Latin
America. (NC Photos)
er every day, and ihe brain
washing is more and more ev
ery day, and ihe whole ihing
is going io be more and more
difficult every day . . .
“You will, of course, under
stand that another letter like
this cannot be received . . .
As I said, all my faith is in
God. We are in the hands of
God. Keep your spirits up and
He will take care of us.”
By Father Charles Vella
(Radio, NCWC News Service)
VALLETTA, Malta — Mal
ta’s leftist Labor party has
challenged the Archbishop of
Malta and the Bishop of the
adjoining island of Gozo to
public debate.
Archbishop Michele Gonzi
immediately branded the
challenge to him and Bishop
Joseph Pace “the highest in
sult that can be directed
against the ecclesiastical au
thorities.”
The challenge was publish
ed (May 26) in II Helsien, or
gan of the Labor party of for
mer Premier Dom Mintoff. It
called upon the prelates to de
bate at a political meeting
scheduled for the following
day.
Mr. Mintoff and other lead
ers of the Labor party were
put under ecclesiastical inter
dict (forbidden the sacra
ments) on April 9 for publish
ing an attack on the hierarchy
the name of their party.
Archbishop Gonzi has accused
the Labor Party of “opening
the door to communist infil
tration into Malta and the
Mediterranean.”
Archbishop Gonzi replied to
the Labor party challenge in
circular letter which con
demned not only II Helsien
but also other papers run by
the Labor party, The Voice of
Malta, and The Whip.
“Whosoever prints, writes,
sells, buys or reads any of
these papers commits a mortal
sin,” the Archbishop’s letter
declared.
The Archbishop then spoke
of the Labor party’s “Bri
gade,” which recruits children
into a sort of junior member
ship in the party. Many chil
dren affiliated with the bri
gade have spoken against the
Bishops, refused to take part
in prayers in schools, and
Vatican Paper
To Celebrate
Centennial
VATICAN CITY (NC) — L’-
Osservatore Romano will pub
lish a special international is
sue to commemorate 100 years
of publication of the Vatican
City daily.
Complete plans for the cen
tenary edition have not yet
been announced. But editor
Raimondo Manzini expects to
include in the issue a page
carrying a number of articles
in various languages other
than Italian concerning L’Os-
servatore Romano. Among
them will be an article on L’
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paper ceased publication brief
ly and then resumed publish
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Immediately after the La-
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in 1929, the paper was trans
ferred to Vatican City where
it publishes today.
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venirs connected with the pa
per’s long history and the issu
ing of a commemorative series
of stamps by the Vatican post
office.
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The Archbishop’s letter re
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responsibility to God when
they permit their children to
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