‘VIRTUAL STATE OF WAR IN CARIBBEAN’
WASHINGTON, Aug. 18.—“ There is a virtual state of war in the Caribbean,” said the Dominican Ambassador at Large (Mr Julio Ortega Frier). He said that a new attempt to invade the Dominican Republic was being prepared; Mr Frier, who is head of a special Dominican delegation, made this statement after testifying before the Inter-American Union. The commission is seeking information about the turbulent political situation in the Carribean area, where there has been high tension for the last two years. The trouble began in 1947 when some 1500 exiles from several Latin American countries known as the Caribbean Legion tried to make a seaborne invasion of the Dominican Republic from Cuba. It was broken up by the Cuban police before it could set sail. There has been much ill feeling between the Dominican Republic and Nicaragua on one side, and Guatemala and Cuba on the other.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 20 August 1949, Page 5
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