REPERTORIO AMERICANO ment, it may mean the landing of American marines in Havana and the swift setting up of a new rule which will be the replica of Nachado the other horn of the dilemma!
What can you do? What can a citizen of the urge you to do? In a way am ashamed to speak to you, ashamed to mention my own sorrow anıl my shame, as a native of the opressor country, who is helpless to help you: Men like myself in the United States are powerless. There is no enlight: ened public opinion here with any virility behind it. Most of our good will is Platonic, in the ball sense of the word. And who, here, is interesteil in a student revolutionary movement? Our intellectuals, as a body, have lost contact with the spiritual, the human source of creative thought; our student groups are too pampered and too infantile to get excited over anything but foot ball. You are alone in your fight, alone with the student bodies and the intellectuals of other Hispano American countries who, for the most part, are as dispossessed as you. You are alone with the truth!
Yet can say to you: Go on!
If for no other reason, go on because only then will you be happy.
Do not let practical affairs and worldly wisdom make you compromise with your ideal. Look at the men who have made these necessary coinpromises. the successful men, the rulers of the world. See what ugly, misshapen, miserable men they are. Look well at the practical men, and do not go the hideous way which they have gone, and of which the ignoble shambles of the modern world is the result. Even if you are imprisoned, even if you are shot down (as some of you have been. you must have the satisfaction of knowing that your living the sole way that makes life tolerable. The enemies who have sold themselves for dollars are not happy; the indifferent ones, in Cuba, in the United States, who follow opportunism. for success, for pleasure, for power are not happy. They must drug themselves with ever more success, more pleasure, more power, lest they awaken to the intolerableness of their way of living. And that is why they hate you because you, in your purity, are the constant rerealers to themselves of fheir own nullity. They must deny their nullity; and by a common psychologic mechanism they do so by denying you who make them cognizant of it. cannot promise you success in your present endeavor to free Cuba and to bring Cuba to real independence. It would be false to promise it. You may not succeed in actually overthrowing the anarWaldo Frank se dirige a los estudiantes. grande hombre, García Nonge.
Que Dios lo bendiga y le dé pros(Viene de la tercera pugina)
peridad.
Fraternalmente, chy of wbich men like Machado open letter to the splendid studentare mere minor servants. To do body of the Universidad de HabaWaldo Frank so requires more than your good pa. am sending it to a friend, will; it requires method, technique there, but am uncertain that it Como luchan en Cuba and long hard work. But this will ever reach its destination, in.
contra el gobierno triumphant method can come only view of the martial law, which from such good will as yours. Be Machado has declared. Nay thereNuestra protesta. Dicese, fore you achieve it, perhaps you fore beg of you to translate this de público, que la Cámara de Repersonally will be crushed, since letter, and to publish it in your presentantes quiere abordar esta the ordered anarchy and greed of invaluable your indispensible Re. tarde el problema político de conthe modern world has method. pertorio Americano?
ceder el derecho de sufragio a la But even if this is so this worst And may take this opportu mujer. Deseamos, con toda clariwhich inust be bravely envisaged nity of telling you once more how dad, manifestar nuestra opinión as a possibility it makes no differ deeply aprecciate your work? personal en el problema.
ence in what you must do, not read your magazine carefully erery La mujer cubana no debe acepmerely from a sense of duty, but week, and cannot conceive of tar, en esos momentos, ese dein order to be happy! You must what would do, if it were to recho. La República confronta una go on struggling to free and to cease to come. You are a great crisis tremenda que puede alcanreorganise your country; knowing man, García Monge. God bless and zar culminaciones violentas.
that that labor is its own reward; prosper you.
Todos los Poderes del Estado that the man who gives his life Fraternally merecen la crítica popular. Nos for freedom by that fact is alive rige una dictadura. Hay vicio de Waldo Frank (he only) and is free.
nulidad en la propia Constitución Students of Cuba, you have come del país: cualquier derecho obteout into the clear air of action; Croton on Hudson, Nueva York, nido por una ley emanada de esa Diciembre 11 de 1930.
you have created leaders for yourmisma Constitución es completaselves, and a program. You are Sr. don Joaquín García Monge, mente nulo.
blessed in this. find myself al San José, Costa Rica.
La mujer tiene la obligación most envying you, rather than moral de ayudar a la consolidaMi querido amigo: pitying you despite your anguish ción de una República honrada y and your struggles. My heart and Acabo de escribir la adjunta justa. Aceptando el derecho de my mind are with you. If could carta abierta al espléndido grupo sufragio, viciado, se hace cómplice feel that ms word warmed you de estudiantes de la Universidad de la maldad política.
de la Habana. Se la envio a un in the slightest degree and heartPor nuestra parte, dejamos, con ened your perseverance, it would amigo de allá; pero no estoy cierto toda claridad, consignada nuestra be for me an inexpressible joy, de que llegue a su destino, en protesta.
who am alone, here in this great vista de la ley marcial que Macountry alone, and unable to act chado ha decretado. Puedo, por lo Flora Diaz Parrado, abogaila; Ofelia Rodriguez Acosta, escritora; for and with men like you who tanto, suplicar a usted traducir stand for everything cherish.
esta carta y publicarla en su vaSarah Méndez Capote, escritora; elé Casuso de Torriente. Brau, Waldo Frank lioso, su indispensable Repertorio profesora; Judith Martinez, profeAmericano. podré aprovecbar esta oporsora; Eloisa Sánchez de Taboadela, Croton on Hudson, tunidad para decir a usted una vez pedagoga; Zoe de la Torriente, tarN. Dec. 11, 1930. más lo profundamente que apre profesora; Lea Rodriguez de Portell macéutica; Pura Rodriguez Castell, Sr. don Joaquín García Monge, cio su trabajo? Leo cuidadosamenSan José de Costa Rica: te su revista todas las semanas; Vilá, profesora; América dna LlaMy dear friend. nes de Cowley, etc.
y no puedo concehir qué haría si have just written the enclosed. cesara de llegarme. Usted es un Diciembre de 1960. QUIEN HABLA DE LA Cervecería TRAUBE se refiere a una empresa en su género, singular en Costa Rica.
Su larga experiencia la coloca al nivel de las fábricas aniálogas más adelantadas del mundo. Posee una planta completa: más de cuatro manzanas ocupa, en las que caben todas sus dependencias: CERVECERÍA, REFRESQUERÍA, OFICINAS, PLANTA ELECTRICA, TALLER MECÁNICO, ESTABLO Ha invertido una suma enorme eii ENVASES, QUE PRESTA ABSOLUTAMENTE GRATIS SUS CLIENTES FABRICA CERVEZAS jada, Ginger Ale, Crema, Granadina, Kola, Chan, Fresa, DuEstrella, Lager, Selecta, Dorazno y Pera ble, Pilsener y Sencilla SIROPES REFRESCOS Goma, Limón, Naranja, Duraz: Kola, Zarza, Limonada, Naran no, Menta, Frambuesa, etc.
Prepara también agua gaseosa de superiores condiciones digestivas Tiene como especialidad para fiestas sociales la Kola DOBLE EFERVESCENTE y como reconstituyente, la MALTA SAN JOSE. COSTA RICA Al pueblo de Cuba. Hay que actuar ahora. No compre billetes de Lotería. De esta manern los Senadores, Representantes y Botelleros, sentirán el látigo del Pueblo.
No compre los periólicos adictos al Gobierno pues estos son los culpables de que la opinión pública esté inal guiada. Si Ul. compra estos periódicos, usted ayuda a la desvergüenza.
No pague contribuciones e im.
puestos. De esta manera el Gobierno tendrá que renunciar pries no podrá cumplir con sus obligaciones.
Prefiera morir antes de ser tin paria en su tierra; pero antes de morir llévese por delante a uno o más de los esbirros que están amparando a este criminal Gobierno.
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