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THE CUBA REVIEW 



common sense tl()ul)ts that it, is advantageous 

 for himself or any other inhabitant of the 

 ishmd to speak the hinguage of the country 

 with which most of its business is and always 

 must be done. Just the same, a considerable 

 fr;iction of them have always resented the 

 teaching of English in the i)ublic schools and 

 efforts to exclude it began soon after the 

 departure of the American soldiers. These 

 efforts failed, even vmder the Jose Miguel 

 Gomez Administration, but now under that 

 of President Menocal, the irreconcilables 

 have succeeded in bringing about a violation 

 of the fundamental law and the teaching of the 

 hated language has stojjped. 



The official statement recently made by t he 

 Cul)an representative in Washington, that 

 the susj)ension or abolition is only partial, 

 seems to be literally true, but really — well, 

 something else, for just three teachers of 

 English in the jiublic schools have been 

 allowed to retain their positions in the whole 

 island. As all the private schools of Cuba 

 make instruction in English an essential part 

 of their course the illegal action of the insular 

 Board of Superintendents in effect deprives 

 the children of the poor of a valuable privi- 

 lege which those of the rich retain — truly a 

 sorry manifestation of patriotism. — N. Y. 

 7^ i UK'S. 



\ lews showiiiK recent iinproveinuuls aL Ihe Teriiiinal. Saiii;ai;.. .le Cuba 



