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Extracts from a United States information booklet on the situation in Cuba, 29 October 1962
(Catalogue ref: FO 371/162401)
FO 371/162401; extracts from a US information booklet, 1962 FO 371/162401; extracts from a US information booklet, 1962 FO 371/162401; extracts from a US information booklet, 1962 FO 371/162401; extracts from a US information booklet, 1962
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Transcript
FO 371/162401; extracts from a US information booklet, 1962

Questions
  1. According to this source, why are there bad relations between Cuba and the USA?

  2. What is the attitude of this source towards Communists?

  3. What is the attitude of this source towards the United States and its actions?

  4. What do you think is the purpose or reason for writing this booklet?

  5. Compare the viewpoint of this source with the viewpoint in source 3. Which do you find most persuasive?

  6. Is this source biased? Is it of value to historians? Explain your answer.
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