Show r 1 p I IB B By RODNEY DUTCHER W WASHINGTON De Dec 29 C 29 29 Cu bani driven n from Ir country b by ht v Machado dictatorship are finally l banding together In n order to m make maia a n. concentrated d organized organize fight for f Cuban liberty from within tho pro shores hores of tho United Stat Stati Exiled Cubans Cuban havo been Increasing in number for tor several years a in and now some Borne of ot them have organ organized th the Cuban CUbon Patriotic league w will havo headquarters here hero W plans to disseminate te Information about what's happening on ti th 1 Island republic I. I 5 5 Th The Tho league if It It o operates accord Ing to plans is likely to a constant irritant to the the- ha department of at state which has consistently 14 ig nor ti d the the- frequent sensational charges against Pr President Gerardo I Machado Mussolini I Is a a. George orBo Washing ton c compared to Machado says sy H H. Ralph Burton general counsel for tor forthe i tho the now organization It Is hard hard 1 for tor an American to understand that thaL J there exists within a a. hundred miles miles' of or his own country a a. country which j t In its lack of ot political and civil j freedom Is 15 only comparable with 1 tho the despotism of ot Asiatic princes J JBurton 1 Burton who is best beat known here as the legal re representative representative- and and R spokesman of ot various national patriotic pa- pa societies visited Cub Cuba early in the tho taU tall with Senator David I. I I i Walsh of at Massachusetts He lIe has lias had experience In international I politics and was waa decorated by the tha Rumanian government for his hla ser 81 r- r A vices to that country in her successful sue suc postwar efforts to acquire large gobs of ot now new territory Other prominent members In the league are aro Alfred Altred Bettan Bettancourt court president Octavio wealthy banished Cuban Gerald Brandon newspaper man i Dr Domingo Tamargo Ta- Ta margo and Albert do Laisne The Tb hope of at tho the organization is to or organize organize or- or all aU Cuban exiles and other anti Machado patriots pat now In in th the United States I. I S S SWe We W gave gaye the Cubans a 3 a. a repten of at our OUi- own constitution with which to govern themselves and now Machado has destroyed d It Burton says sas The Tho department of state has been flagrantly derelict t duty of ot protecting the liberties of ot Cuba as guaranteed In In the tho Platt Piatt amend amend- men ment t. t The Time manner manner In which people have been shot and imprisoned to say nothing of at h having had their property confiscated without compensation com corn is inconceivable to any any- ono one who has hams not studied tho the situation situa tion In Cuba Machado has persistently refused re refused re- re fused to permit the organization of ot new political parties or the reorganization reorganization re re- re 1 organization of at old parties The Th right of political opposition Is ci en 1 denied As soon oon as an editor or anyone else speaks up be he 15 1 i notified to get out of 0 the country countr or go to Jail When tho the Nationalist Nation Nation- alist aliat party met for party organization tion Machado sent his soldiers with the result that several people were killed and several elal hundred Arrested arrested Ar ar- rested for tor disturbing tho the peace By unconstitutional means menns Machado Ma Ma- Ia chado has Imas extended his term of at of- of flee to at Ic least st ten years ealS obtaining cooperation of at his cO congress by increasing inci in in- ci easing creasing tho the terms of at its members and promising to keep them In of ot- ot flee fice Ho lIo is in Iii now until Ma May 1935 as a result of at the tho 1928 election In Ini which h ho was tho time only candidate candidate whoso whose namo name was permitted to apPear appear ap- ap pear on tho ticket 4 S S Practically every C newspaper la itt Havana despite constitutional guarantees guar guar- an tees of or freedom of or the press has either cither been suppressed or has suspended sus sus- publication because of or Machados Machado's Machado's Machados Ma Ma- l- l chados chado's ri rigid ld censorship Machados Machado's enemies have been mysteriously assassinated as assassinated as- as and and anel boy and girl students killed for asserting their right of ot petition Ever Every ten days das through a a. lottery Machado extracts hundreds a of thousands of dollars from tho thoI desperately poor Cubans in amounts I of ot 30 cents and up deducting his own liberal sharo share and then dividing among his political henchmen Small wonder that ho dares not go bO even a l. l few miles mUes Into tho the country without both sides of oC the tho road lined with soldiers for tor his lila protection Tho The Cuban Patriotic leagues league's first move move- has been to ask Secretary of at State Stimson to persuade Machado to allow two representative Americans Amer Amer- leans lenns to enter Cuba study the situation and make a public report It really doesn't expect Stimson and Machado to o cooperate but holds that It has thus called Machados Machado's bluff blutt as made when ho sold saM recently recent ho he was willing to have havo the tho American AmerIcan Amer Amet- ican iran people know all tit tho the facts Wisconsin shipped potatoes to 27 7 states and to Cuba Cub during tho the 1290 1929 30 0 O season ca on |