Foreign News: Unconstitutional Dictator

Resentment against Dictator Machado's high-handed ways mounted last week to the Cuban Supreme Court bench itself. In a unanimous verdict the court held that his recent decree suppressing Cuba's Spanish language newspapers is unconstitutional.

A few days previously Sr. Machado had received Karl August Bickel, president of the United Press, had said to him:

"There is not now and there will not be in the future under my administration any censorship on outgoing news about Cuba. . . . Your own United Press leased wire is in constant and unhampered contact with New York....

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