WAYWARD BUS COMPANY HELPS CUBA
. The Leland. Motor Corp., a British bus manufacturer, has politely and courteously told the U.S.State Department to go to hell. Dean Rusk and Lyndon Johnson may not like it, but British buses are going to roll in the streets of Havana and wherever else they are needed in the revolutionary island.
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Pecare -sorry the Americans are upset about it, " said managing director Donald Stokes, “but this is a deal vetween a British company. ° and Cuba,"
Despite angry protests from top Washington circles, the company is selling 400 passenger buses worth $11.2 million and will eventually deliver 1,450 buses plus Spare parts.
"Cuba is a traditional market as far as we are concerned," Stokes explained to the U.S.State Department. "We sold them buses worth. $1O million in 1949 and 46 or 7 million in 1959," Besides, buses are not strategic war material,
"You would.look dammed silly going to war in a bus. Anyway we haven't any war with Cuba and we buy sugar from them,"
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