CUBANS CONTINUE TO BATTLE BLOCKADE
Despite Washington's savage policy of barring any ship that goes to Cuba from thence on carrying any U.S. government goods, the number of ships going to the beleaguered island has not decreased, In fact Senator John. ~Sténnis recently informed a Senate subcommittee that the number has even increased,
For the first seven months of 1963, the senator reported that calls had been made at Cuban ports by 80 British, 63 Greek, 51 Lebanese, 10 Italian end 10 Norwegian ships, The New York Dail News lists another 14 © (four French, four Moroccan, two Swedish, three Spanish and one Finnish).
Also to be noted is the fact that not less than 18 capitalist coun-. tries have bought considerable quantities of Cuban sugar despite frowns: from Washington. Among these, Spain took 500,000 tons; Morocco, 274,.000; Japan, 160,000;. Britain, 130, 000; Egypt, 80, 000; Italy, 80,0003 Canada, - 65,0005 Iraq, 60,0003 Finland, 45 90005 Chile, 45, 000.
These fissures in the blockade give added weight to a recent report in the Italian socialist Mondo Nuovo [see preceding article]: that Washington has given the green light to active preperations for another invasion. of Cuba,
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