The American liberals share guilt in the slavement of the Cuban people and its cost to the USA. Those who shake hands with traitor Fidel CaSStro and his criminals will never wash up the blood of our innocent people from their hands.Salvador Diaz-Verson was born in 1905 on November 3rd in Matanzas, Cuba, and became a journalist early in life immediately following the untimely death of his father in July of 1918. He began his newspaper career as a cub reporter working for El Imparcial later going on to write for the Heraldo de Cuba in 1921 and El Pais in 1930.
Diaz-Verson dedicated himself to the study of communism and communist activities in the Americas. Shortly after the creation of the Communist Party (Popular Socialist Party - PSP), he founded the Anti-Communist League of Cuba which was inaugurated at the University of Havana on May 14, 1925. In 1934, he became Chief of the Cuban National Police.
Throughout World War II, Diaz-Verson served as secretary of the Committee for the Defense of Democracy formally created in 1940. Described as an underground organization that worked with Allied governments in tracing and closing off Nazi submarine refueling stations in the Caribbean, the Committee also identified and destroyed Nazi informational broadcasting facilities; by 1947, Diaz-Verson had become the Committee's president. From 1948 until March 10, 1952, he served as Cuba's Chief of Military Intelligence during the government of Dr. Carlos Prio Socarras (deposed by Batista in 1952). Beginning in May 1954, he participated in the First through Fourth Congress Against Soviet Intervention in Latin America and was present at the creation of the Inter-American Organization of Anti-Communist Newspapermen on April 10, 1957. Prior to Castro's takeover, while working for the newspaper Excelsior, Diaz-Verson also served as the organization's first president.
Diaz-Verson published works on Cuban culture, art, and literature. He authored numerous books including: Nazism in Cuba (1944), Communism and Cowardice (1947), The Tzarist's Movement Dressed in Red (1958), History of an Archive (1961), The Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse (1963), and One Man, One Battle (1980). While living in exile in Miami, Diaz-Verson, was a frequent contributor to Diario de las Americas (Miami), La Nacion (Miami), The 20th of May (Los Angeles), La Tribuna (New Jersey), Hola (Spain), and La Cronica (Puerto Rico). Salvador Diaz-Verson died in exile in Miami on February 15, 1982.
The American liberals share guilt in the slavement of the Cuban people and its cost to the USA. Those who shake hands with traitor Fidel CaSStro and his criminals will never wash up the blood of our innocent people from their hands.Castro came to power just weeks before my wedding. I clearly remember watching the news and reading Time Magazine trying to figure it all out. Most of the American press lauded his revolution. I was not so sure. Call it feminine intuition, but I thought there was something sinister about him. My intuition was proven by subsequent history.
Perhaps Americans were caught unaware in reaction to the McCarthy hearings of a few years earlier. In any case, most of us didn't believe in Communists on our own soil (or hemisphere) in those days. It required a move back to Berkeley as a young matron (believe it, or not, I was insulated from politics as a student at UC Berkeley) and to realize that not only did we have Communists in America, some of them actually were my neighbors!
I felt the same cold intuition about David Horowitz when I encountered him once during my Berkeley days. Sure enough, his recent books proclaim that he had been a Communist -- a Red Diaper Baby -- who had morphed into the New Left. I knew it all along!
Happy Birthday week, Elian. We will not forget!