American Officials Concerned As To Cuban Unfriendliness

Wanganui Chronicle, 4 November 1950, Page 5

American Officials Concerned As To Cuban Unfriendliness

American officials are concerned at Cuba’s unfriendly attitude since the attempted Puertorican uprising. President Carlos Prio yesterday sent a message to the Puertorican Governor, Munor Marin, demanding fair treatment for the arrested Nationalists. American officials have interpreted this and other signs to indicate official Cuban sympathy for the Puertorican Nationalists. The United Press Havana correspondent says a strong army and police guard was thrown around the American Embassy and the residence of the American Ambassador, Mr. Robert Butler, today, to forestall possible terrorist acts by exiled

Puertorican Nationalists or hostile Cuban demonstrators. Nevertheless, Cuban University students staged anti-American demonstrations this morning and the situation became so alarming that the police fired into the air several times to disperse student groups. The police also cordoned off a number of university buildings. The corespondent says that the American Embassy in Havana and the State Department in Washington have held at least two lengthy telephone conferences in the past. 24 hours on the question of Cuba’s official attitude towards the Puertorican situation.