STUDENTS SEE REVOLUTIONARY CUBA FOR THEMSELVES
LONDON ~-- Student youth from Europe and North America are having an opportunity to see and to evaluate the Cuban experiment first hand and to make a positive contribution to the establishment:::.. of friendly and mutually beneficial relations between their oountries and Cuba,
British students have sent their first student group to the revolutionary island, Traveling by rail and sea to Rotterdam, where they joined a trade boat to Cuba, the dozen students will be guests of the Federation of University Students of Cuba.
-The British students, who-are from universities, technical and art colleges have taken "with them, at the request of Cuban stu~ dents, books:on chemical engineering to assist Cuban students with their studies,
On their return, they will give reports on what they have seen and what they think about it.
In France a group of students chartered a plane to take them to Cuba. They-will be accompanied by some American students, Al= — though Cuba is only 90 miles from the U.S., these students have had to go via Europe due to the State Department ban on Americans visiting Cuba to see for themselves,
Meanwhile 75 other American students, defying the offioial © ban on travel to one of the most interesting and instructive soountries of the world, reached Havana and are now touring the island.
To demonstrate their friendly feelings, they donated blood to the Havana blood bank, Referring to the attacks on Cuba conducted under the direction of the White House, State Department and Central Intelligence Agency, the leader. of the U.S. delegation said, UT should like to transfuse several drops of my blood to compensate the Cuban people for the blood they have lost."
A group of French- and English-speaking students from all. parts of Canada are spending their summer vacations in Cuba, Among their projeots is participation in the work of repairing the damage caused when hurricane Flora hit the island last October,
BRITAIN'S BIG MAIL PILE UP
By Alan Adair
LONDON, July 27 -- For the first time since 1891,