To the Editors of The Crimson:
From the letter of Daniel Bell, professor of Sociology (May 15), I can see that we have few differences on the subject of May Day. I support the Cuban Revolution. It has meant enormous progress in many areas for the Cuban people, and it ignited a beacon of hope for the rest of Latin America. But I am unhappy that political prisoners remain in Cuban jails. Huber Mators was not jailed, as Bell suggests, for "expressing disagreement" with Fidel Castro. He in fact started an armed revolt against the revolutionary government. Nonetheless, he should be freed and permitted to leave the country.
With respect to the Soviet Union and Czechoslovakia, I completely agree with Professor Bell. The regimes of those two countries, and of others in the Eastern Bloc, are criminal and it is an obscenity that they call themselves "socialist."
I do not engage in "selective indignation." The difference between South Africa and the Eastern Bloc has to do with the degree of leverage we in the United States have over events in those respective areas. What is the total value of American investment in the Soviet Union? --Dan Swanson '74
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