REPORT ON CUBA

Press, Volume CI, Issue 29784, 29 March 1962, Page 17

REPORT ON CUBA

“Not Able To Gain Entry” f N.Z. Press Association) AUCKLAND, March 28. An accurate picture of what was going on inside a country could easily be obtained without entering that country, Sir Leslie Munro said in a luncheon address to the Auckland Law Society today.

The International Commission of Jurists, of which he is secretary-general, intended to issue a report on Cuba where, he said, there was no such thing as toe rule of law.

"We will not be able to gain entry,” he said, “but there are so many refugees from Cuba in Florida. and other places that it will be easy for us to get evidence By the same token, details of any secret trials in Hungary will be known in time.” Sir Leslie Munro said that any reports issued by the commission were toe result of a detailed examination. Speaking of the functions of the commission, Sir Leslie Munro said lawyers from many countries acted its observers at the trial of Eichmann, at the Turkish trials and at the inquiry on Bizerta. They were not paid a salary but received travelling and out-of-pocket expenses.

Sir Leslie Munro said Australia had provided observers at state trials and he hoped New Zealand would be able to do the same.

He also expressed toe hope that a group of New Zealand lawyers would visit Indonesia and South Vietnam. “Some lawyers there are in peril,” lie said. “We should let them know we all stand together.” In Indonesia, he said, the Rotary and Boy Scout movements had been eliminated. India and Malaya were the only true democries in Asia.