Violated Pledge

In an interview with New York Sunman Edwin C. Hill last week President Gerardo Machado said the sort of thing that President Hoover is supposed to think about Soviet Russia.

"It is my belief,'' said Sr. Machado, "that Communism is a far more serious danger to the capitalist countries of the world than any of them seems to realize. I believe that we are taking it too casually all over the world. I believe we are letting the poison spread into regions where it may do immense harm in years to come. I assure you there is nothing of the alarmist in me, but I feel deeply on this subject. . . .

"Why do you think that. I violated my own pledge not to accept more than one term of the presidency of my country? . . .

"Early in my first term of office, which began in 1925, evidences of the Soviet penetration of Cuba began to come to me. The Fifth Congress of the Third International at Moscow drew up a plan to infiltrate our schools and universities, to obtain the support of women's organizations, to propagate small strikes, organize intermittent disorders and generally to interrupt the normality of government.

"In the face of such plain enmity our Cuban Secret Service, very competent and highly organized, was not long in gathering ample evidence of the widespread seriousness of the Soviet plot. It was in full flower toward the end of 1928, when my first term of office was approaching its end. I had the proofs in my pocket of Russia's scheme to corrupt and seize Cuba as a vantage ground for future attack on the United States of America. I made up my mind then and there to stay and to fight it out with these world destroyers. ... It matters little what they call me if the work is done successfully. If the term 'Dictator' pleases my enemies, let them use it.

"Russia is in Cuba! ... On my word as an officer and a gentleman, on my word as the President of this Republic, that is the truth, and your own American Ambassador, Senor Harry F. Guggenheim, knows that it is the truth!"

History Repeats? Four years ago Dictator Carlos Ibanez of Chile discovered the Red Menace. He promptly exiled from Chile such dangerous "Reds" as a Chief Justice of the Supreme Court and other prominent persons opposed to his regime. Since then there has been no suggestion that anyone other than Dictator Ibanez will ever be elected President of Chile so long as he lives.

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