'PAGE THREF r J FRIDAY, AUGUST 27, 1965 THE MICHIGAN DAILY PRWAY, AUQUST 27, 1988 THE MICHIGAN DAILY PAGE TUREE Sw .}aw=.s+ 11iwr T. ... «.... _ ... ...«..... Defends r - Husband's Role in Mediation' COURTING? TRY THE INTELLECTUAL (Continued from Page 2) In reference to another part of the New Republic article, Mrs. Martin said that Bosch "never asked John Martin for an air- plane" to return to the Domini- can Republic. She said that a week after the rebellion began, Bosch asked if it would do any good to return and was told by Martin that if he did at that time he might be killed. Bosch called for the revolution against Reid, in which many peo- ple were killed. But he had "no moral right" to call for the up- rising if he did not return. In the U.S. press, Bosch has been harsh- ly criticized for his failure to leave Puerto Rico. And so, Mrs. Martin said, "perfectly naturally and understandably," Bosch is now making his position "harder and harder," saying things that two months ago he did not say to the New York Times. Little Sense She said that it makes as much sense for Bosch, who was in Puer- to Rico all during the uprising, to speak authoritatively for what happened during it "as for me or anyone else." (In his Life article, Martin says of his meeting with Bosch during the fighting, "he did not want to talk to me about events, since I had said publicly that in my judgment his party had fallen under the domination of adventurers and Castro-Com- munists and that his country was being ripped to pieces. He could not believe what I said. How could he? He was in Puerto Rico, not Santo Domingo. I would not have believed it had I not seen it.") Thus Mrs. Martin quarrels with Bosch's idea that the Dominican people will be forever embittered against the U.S. 'She feels this idea is "pretty sophisticated." A more realistic view, she explained, is that some of them may be temporarily embittered. They are not a hostile. people, but "gentle and likeable," she added. Describing the population fur- ther, she said that 70 per cent of thei Dominicans live outside the capital. The campesinos, as they are called, live on the land. Thoy "have no dollar income. They are outside the money market," liv- ing by trading goods. "By and large, they are illiterate, unedu- cated and predominantly colored. They are really the dispossessed." 'Less Sophisticated' Mrs.; Martin finds the Domini- cans "less sophisticated and much more primitive" than the Cubans, who "saw an awful lot of Ameri- cans over many years." The Do- minical Republic, she pointed out, has never been a tourist haven. Asked if this rural population is aware of the meaning of the governmental seizures which con- vulse their land from time to time, she said many of them are not. "What they know basically is that nobody's ever done a darned thing for them and they're right." By and large, she said, "the Do- minicans are neither anti-Ameri- can nor pro-Communist." They are very nationalistic. Concerned with their own misery and disease, they want freedom, 5fe added. Economically, the little country is heavily dependent on the world's sugar price because its one prin- cipal crop is sugar, Mrs. Martin said. To aid the country, the U.S. has tried to get it to diversify into other crops. Primitive Describing the primitive nature of the countryside, Mrs. Martin said that it is "almost like' Bibli- cal days." And Voodoo supersti- tion is strong, as many of the rur- al people have a culture and a life predominantly Haitian. Mrs. Martin said that the primi- tive nature of the country is also reflected in its lack of leaders, addingthat for what she had said about the Dominican Republic, the name of South Viet Nam could be substituted. A nation's people, she said, need "political stability to advance social and eco- nomic programs to better their lives." Mrs. Martin chalks up the ab- solute source of many of the Do- minicans' problems to lack of edu- cation. Quoting Adlai Stevenson, she said, "'You can't have an improved society with unimproved people'." She said that aid funds are needed to teach the Domini- cans to read in their own language and that the people must be edu- cated to revitalize the human re- sources, for health, sanitation and progressive leadership in political matters. Aid funds, Mrs. Martin suggested, should be made avail- able both for education and for vocation school programs, to teach the young men to become carpenters, electricians and plumb- ers. This, she said, "might keep them from throwing rocks and overturning cars in the streets." Mrs. Martin described how many intelligent men in the Dominican Republic suffer from a lack of formal education. One man she knew, the governor of a province of 84,000 people, could not sign his name. "Think what he could do if he were literate," she said. Expanding on the subject of education and related problems in the Dominican Republic, Mrs. Martin said "primitive people don't feel like building a country. They simply don't have the ener- gy-their diet is faulty." The Dominicans, she continued, are not lazy, even though "in the countryside, everyone folds up from noon to 4 p.m. They are undernourished. Rice and beans won't sustain life as we know it in our climates." Mrs. Martin said she found the Dominicans neither apathetic, nor stupid, but "bright and industrious, pressing disgust with experts who denounce the Latin character, Mrs. Martin said "there is nothing wrong with the Latin character- there is a 'good deal wrong with their diet." Many Latins feel basically in- ferior to North Americans, which leads to a lack of confidence in themselves and a reluctance to as- sume responsibility, she explained. Could Aid Mrs. Martin said that U.S.-aid- ed educational programs could im- prove the diet, the standard of living and the stability of the Do- minican Republic, "instead of im- posing U.S. know-how, or giving handouts, which only adds to their If the education process could be set in motion in underdeveloped nations, she asserted, it could "make them see what they could do for themselves. They could build their societies by themselves." Regarding her personal feelings for the Dominican Republic, Mrs. Martin said, "I feel mostly parti- san, as my husband does, on be- half of the people of the Domini- can Republic. I don't want an ad- venturer who might turn Commu- nist and then turn the. country over to Soviet occupation or a home-grown type of Communist state. 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