Cuban Revolution Is a Struggle For Economic And Political Independence, Declares Haring

"The program of the present government in Cuba is aimed to make the country economically and consequently politically independent," declared Clarence H. Haring, professor of Latin-American History and Economics, in an interview yesterday. "While comprehending constitutional reforms, it is primarily concerened with the nationalistic design of minimizing the power of foreign capitalists, and of increasing the number of small estates a move of fundamental importance. The announced intention is to do this by fair indemnity rather than by confiscation, but there have been rumours that the students behind the government have recently been encouraging the communistic elements in the laboring classes.

"The chief reason why no one can be quite certain of what is going to happen in the present crisis is that the existing government does not represent the Cuban people at large; rather does it stand for a group of patriotle students and professors with radical sympathies. They have undoubtedly a good program, but the question is, of course, whether or not they can obtain sufficient support for it.

"Of the opposition parties, there are the old politicians, who have run Cuba in corruption ever since it first gained independence; the liberal party, also with political pretentious: the A. B. C., consisting chiefly of young professional and business men who want a new deal for their country, and believe that any compromise with the politicians would be fatal, but who are themselves divided into extremists and moderates. The students are at the extreme left with a plan for procedure not essentially different from that of the A. B. C., though slightly more radieal. The result is that San Martin heads a minority government, a virtual dictatorship of the students supported by the soldiers. If is not supported by even the honest politicians or officers, much less by the dishonest elements.

"The crisis in Cuba is not past. The present regime, moreover, can never achieve stability unless a compromise is reached with at least the moderate elements in the opposition groups, with whom negotiations, unsuccessful as yet, have been carried on. The latest word is that these negotiations have completely broken down."