s a followup to the r £09 we had from Havana concerning the visit of 58 American students to Cuba we have noted the following items: American prudent departure from Cuba from Hsinhua
‘an American university students' delegation told the press in vere upon his departure, August 25th, that "The Cubans can be assured that we are leaving with best wishes for them and thzir revolution." Levi Laub said at the Havana airport that “we can prove that the Cuban people want to work in peace bt are not roady to have their freedoms Menaced.
At the invitation of the Cuban Institution for Friendship with other Peoples, a 58-member American university students! delegation had been on a visit to Cuba for more than one month, Fifty-five manbers left Cuba for home on August 25th and the rest will leave later, The Americnn students attended the "July 26th" celebrations and visited fastories, poople's farms, schools and scenic spots, and had been accorded a warm welcome wherever they went. Government leaders had received them,
In a statement issued on the eve of their departure, the American students gave the lie to the imperialist allegation that tho Cuban govern nent had obstructed their going home, The statement said that the Cuban government had tried to send them by sir to places from where they could return home, and had asked for permission to have the planes land in Canada Nassau, Jamaica and other places in tha Americas, But the governments of Canada, Britain, Jamaica and other countries refused to grant pormissions
The statement said, "The U.5. State Department has done everything possible to isolate Cuba and prevent Latin Americans and Americans from going to Cuba, The State Department has been exerting pressure on other governments to deny any access to Cuba. Dut neither throat nor pressure could destroy our unity in aim and in action", the statement declared. American students witch—hunted for visiting Cuba
merican State Department officials have relented ou their decision to invalidate passports from 50 American students who made an unauthorised trip to Cuba, thoy have told the students the matter is likely to be raised again if they attempted to make another journey abroad, Ten of the students, who flew to New York on Thursday, August 29th, from Madrid where they had stayed since leaving Cuba the previous Sunday, vorv subpoenaed to appear befcre the Committee on Un-American . ..ctivities,.