REVOLT URGED
New Group’s Call In Cuba
NEW YORK, April 11. An underground organisation consisting of former followers of the Cuban Prime Minister (Dr. Fidel Castro) has issued a clandestine proclamation in Cuba urging the Cuban people to take up arms again to restore democracy, the “New York Times” reported today. A dispatch from a correspondent in Havana said that the organisation, the Movement of Revolutionary Recovery, had issued the proclamation a few days ago. It called upon Cubans not to let “the true revolution be taken away from you.” The appeal added, according to the newspaper: “Do not let international communism exploit you. The moment has come again to close the ranks, to take up arms and to sound the historic call ‘liberty or death’." The dispatch said the M.R.R. organisation was believed to be the most significant opposition group to have emerged in Cuba since Dr. Castro overthrew the Batista regime and seized power, although it was not regarded as an immediate threat.
The group was composed chiefly of military men and civilians who fought with Dr. Castro at that time, and many of them still had posts in the Army and the Government, the “New York Times” said.
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Press, Volume XCIX, Issue 29178, 12 April 1960, Page 17
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