Since Cuba's Fidel Castro went to power 14 months ago, the editorial page of the New York Times has watched his low jinks with monumental forbearance, urging that Castro get a chance to prove his good intentions. "If you are a newspaperman of responsibility," said one Timesman, "you don't rush into print immediately; you weigh the consequences." A major weigher of Cuban consequences for the Times was Editorial Writer Herbert L. Matthews (TIME, July 27), a good friend of Castro and ranking U.S. newspaper apologist for the Castro regime. "Youth," explained Matthews, writing...
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