THE CUBAN STORY Books by Herbert L. Matthews The Cuban Story ( 1961 ) The Yoke and the Arrows ( 1956; revised edition, 1961 ) Assignment to Austerity ( with Nancie Matthews) ( 1950) The Education of a Correspondent (1946) The Fruits of Fascism ( 1943) Two Wars and More to Come ( 1938) Eyewitness in Abyssinia ( 1937 ) Herbert L. Matthews T he Cuban Story GEORGE BRAZILLER NEW YORK 1961 © 1961 by Herbert L. Matthews All rights reserved. For information, address the publisher: George Braziller, Inc. 215 Parie Avenue South New York 3, N. Y. Library of Congress Catalog Card Number: 61-17381 The quotation on page 137 from Eric Sevareid’s column in the New York Post is used with the permission of The Hall Syndicate, Inc. FIRST PRINTING Printed in the United States of America To Eric and Bobbie Acknowledgment is due, as always, to The New York Times in whose sendee all my information was gathered. Some material from a series of three lectures for the Third Annual Lectures in History at the City College of New York in March, 1961, has also been used.