PAGE TWO THE MICHIGAN DAILY FRIDAY, AUGUST 27. INS PAETOTH..HGA AL F v.rIDAY.ATTou4Tu~T//p.. 1AA R Mrs. Martin Blames Cabral for Dominican Fight; By SUSAN COLLINS Special To The Daily THREE LAKES, Mich.-Frances R. Martin, the wife of vacationing ex-Ambassador to the Dominican Republic John Bartlow Martin, is in a position to have a clear, ar- ticulated grasp of the events in- volved in the Dominican Republic this past spring. The actual fighting, Mrs. Mar- tin said in a recent interview, was touched off by Donald Reid Cab- ral, head of the government which had replaced the non-Communist, democratic government of Juan Bosch by military coup on Sep- tember 25, 1963. Reid had heard that certain members of the military were plot- ting against him. When he sent an emissary, then-Colonel Rivera Cu- esta, to military headquarters, the military locked Rivera Cuesta up, took over the radio station, and announced that they were taking over the government in the name' of Juan Bosch. The defecting military, in which Colonel Francisco Caamano Deno' was not very influential in the' beginning, according to Mrs. Mar- tin, was soon joined in riot and rebellion by confused masses of street citizens, by leftist political youth, and by a few hard-core Communists. The fighting was on, Enlightened Oligarchy Donald Reid, explained Mrs. Martin, a young businessman and son of a Scotch immigrant, is a member of the oligarchy - a. group which is extremely con- servative in other Latin American countries, but not necessarily in the Dominican Republic, where it is "quite enlightened." After the 1963 coup, Reid was brought into the government by a small group of military men who were acting on the part of the middle class, rightist business leaders who fear- ed Communism and disliked Bosch. Mrs. Martin explained they felt that Bosch was "handing the country over to the Communists, although Bosch is clearly not a Communist nor was he handing over the country to Communists." "The Reid government was not a repressive government," Mrs. Martin said. Reid is "a decent person personally." But his regime was unpopular and was not "sup- ported wholeheartedly by the Unit- ed States government, because it had been installed by the military and not by election. When the Dominican Republic and the Reid government explod- ed on April 24, President Lyndon B. Johnson sent the Marines to Santo Domingo four days later and ex-Ambassador Martin in on April 30. Martin was in the Do- minican Republic for three weeks, and returned when the Organiza- tion of American States commis- sion was formed and operating. Since that time, Ellsworth Bunker and the other OAS members have been carrying on the commission's work, helping the Dominicans prepare to hold democratic elec- tions in the country. The Imbert junta was indeed' formed in collaboration with Mar- tin. "'Shot at from three sides'" (loyalists, rebels, and Marines), Mrs. Martin quoted her husband, the men working to get a cease- fire and form the junta had an ex- ceedingly difficult time of it. The rebels would have nothing to do with General Wessin y Wessin, who was "most directly responsible for the overthrow of Juan Bosch," said Mrs. Martin. Wessin y Wes- sin, a post-Bosch supporter of Reid, was "absolutely unaccept- able for even talking purposes to the rebel side" because when the fighting had been at its bloodiest, he was in command of the loyal- ist troops. Someone Needed Someone else was needed. An- tonio Imbert looked like a logical choice. "This has never been said in print, and I don't understand it," said Mrs. Martin, but Imbert "was a member of the council of state put in right after Trujillo's death. He was one of seven 'presidents' who had the sole aid of holding democratic elections in the Do- minican Republic. Another thing that Mrs. Martin pointed out about Imbert is that he is an appointed general, "not a professional military man." Al- though Imbert is often mentioned in the same breath as Wessin y Wessin, an "extreme rightist rad- ical," the two are not equatable, Mrs. Martin maintains. Imbert is a reasonable man, and much more moderate, she said. Private Life Until the junta was formed, Imbert was living "quietly in pri- vate life." When President Bosch's" military cantors in 1963 had de- cided to send him into exile rath- er than kill him, Mrs. Martin said, he made one request, published in the Santo Domingo newspapers at the time. He said he wanted to go into exile accompanied by his "good friend" Antonio Imbert, whom he trusted. Mr. and Mrs.Im- bert did indeed accompany Mr. and Mrs. Bosch into exile. The first thing Imbert did when the junta was formed, Mrs. Mar- tin said, was to expel the old Tru- jillo generals who were complete- ly unacceptable to the people be- cause of "past atrocities and cur- rent corruption." Wessin y Wessin alone refused to go. The OAS' present objective, Martin said, is to help the Do- minicans set up a provisional gov- ernment which will hold free elec- tions, probably in six to nine months. "They seem to have picked one 'nan as president, Hector Garcia Godoy," she said. Garcia Godoy, a former diplomat who was the Dominican ambassador to London and foreign minister under Bosch, is a member of the oligarchy, pro- gressive and enlightened. The reb- el side has accepted hih as provi- sional president. "All these peo- ple are friends of ours" (Mr. and Mrs. Martin), Mrs. Martin said, "no matter what side they're on." Few Capable People She commented on "how few capable people" there are in the Dominican Republic. "No matter who goes down, he ends up inter- viewing the same five or six guys." Garcia Godoy, she said, was re- luctant to join the Imbert junta in May because he is one of those' who, understandably, "having seen so much governmental chaos were reluctant to accept the responsibil- ity of governmental position." And some of the other quali- fied men "seemed to put . selfish political interest above the good of the country" because whoever is in the provisional government cannot run for the elected presi- dency. Mrs. Martin was pleased with the OAS-Garcia Godoy progress. Questioned about a statement in an article by Juan Bosch which originally appeared in The New Republic, to the effect that the Kennedy years were a departure from other administrations in re- gard to putting new Latin Ameri- can policies in action, Mrs. Mar- tin agreed with Bosch.; Alliance for Progress She mentioned the Alliance for Progress as "certainly the newest and boldest of concepts in our re- lations with Latin America." She also cited the Peace Corps, and added that President Johnson's Latin American policies do not really differ from those of Ken- nedy. On other subjects, Mrs. Martin does not agree with Bosch. John Martin, she said, firmly believes that the Communists took over the Dominican revolution, although Bosch does not. Martin's article for Life maga- zine on the Dominican fighting spells out who the hard-core Com- munists were (". . . men who in my time had been leaders of the hard-core Communist parties - Juan Ducoudray Mansfield of the ..- Partido Socialista Popular .. . who had traveled in recent years to both Soviet Russia and Com- munist China, and in 1962 had worked on broadcasts over Radio Havana aimed at the Dominican Republic; his brother, Felix Servio Ducoudray Mansfield, Jr., also a PSP leader, who in 1963 returned to the Dominican -Republic after having received indoctrination in the U.S.S.R., worked for the New China News agency in Cuba and traveled to China on a Cuban passport . . ." Martin's list goes on and on). Other findings con- firm Martin's-according to Time magazine, "U.S. intelligence agen- cies opened their files on 58 of the Communists' and Castroites playing a leading role in the fighting." Time also printed an impressive list. Abandon Mrs. Martin added: "When the shooting started-when it looked as if Wessin y Wessin's loyalist troops were going to triumph over the rebels, Bosch's political lead- ers abandoned the rebel cause." Members of Bosch's party, the Partido Revolucionairo Domini- cano, such as Molina Urena (a "very decent man" who had been a member of Bosch's congress and in the constitutional line of suc- cession to the presidency, and who was briefly in the palace during the revolution, according to Mrs. Martin) went into asylum. Mrs. Martin said that it is obvious that Caamano "would not have been his own master" had he won. See DEFENDS, Page 3 M 0 r r : ,",fir J . ' './ o0 fMake Your Rooms Interesting with INDIAN MADRAS BEDSPREADS Q $4,75 Indian Print Bedspreads $5.00 Numdah Rugs $4.00 and up Wood Block Prints Hand Painted Scrolls Rattan Hampers Waste Baskets INDIA ART SHOP 330 MAYNARD (Across from the Arcade) ,Y p' U f ttit i I Il EVERYONE IN ANN SAT SHOP L'I J - '; ,.