CUBA: Triumphant Reds

Riding high, the Popular Socialist (Communist) Party, the sole political organization functioning in Cuba, last week held its first national convention since 1952. For Cuba's 17,000 Reds it was a dream of power come true. On the platform sat the government's top labor leaders and Faure Chaumon, the ambassador designate who will soon go to Moscow and pick up diplomatic relations with Russia. As the convention gathered, the first Soviet Ambassador to Cuba since 1952, Sergei Kudriavtsev, once expelled by Canada as a spy, flew into Havana and got a big welcome....

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