Diario las Américas., 1958-03-14
FOR WOMANHOOD

Last wednesday we published a gallant denunciatiOn
0y the distinguished Cuban ladies Mary TarrerO de PrfO
SocarraS~ wife of Cuban ex-President Carlos PriO Socarras;
ENEMA KulSSancheZ de VarOna, wife of DIR. Manuel AntO-
MO de VarOna, ex Prime Minister and exPresident of the
Cuban Senate; Graciela Suarez de BiSbe, wife of DR.. Ma.
nuel Bisbe, President of the Cuban Orthodox PARTY Maria
LulSa de CardOna de ROd6n wife of DR.. Lincoln ROd6n,
ex-President of the Cuban House of Representatives. and
Carmen del Busto de Fernandez, wife of Omar Fernandez,
leader of the University Students Federation and President
OF the School of Medicine of Havana.
The denunciation is related with an unavailable
occurrence, the torture of which a Cuban lady was a victim,
Mrs. Esther MilaneS Dantfn, whom police agents, in a
Havana Police station, submitted to Outrages which neceS-
Sariy cause indignation in any human being. 1t is not
only a protest for brutal aggression against a woman, to
whom for elementary human feelings and concepts of
dignity, respect is due. All human beings, in particular
women, should be always safe from these aggreSSiOnS
against their physical integrity and their personal honor,
NO matter what political passions of the moment may be.
Gel Diario La Marina" of Havana, has published in its
front page an open. letter to the Supreme Court of Cuba.
signed by DIR. Jose A. Fresno Albarran, who, in his capacity
as a doctor, has taken care of the victim. The physician said:
"a complaint has been made before the Havana
court, ana published In the press, by Mrs. Esther
Lima M1lanes Dantin, accusing certain officials of
serious 1nhuman maltreatment against her.
"As a physician, / had the painful duty of CIV
ing professional assistance to the lady. If it is true
that during our professional career we acquire, little
bv little, a philosophy of calm before human pain
and misery, very few times | have been so deepIv
shocked in the feelings of humanity, dignity and
decOrum, as in this unfortunate case.
THE unbelievable outrage suffered by my client,
puts in evidence not only an attempt against the most
elementary human rights, realized with uncOnceiva-
BILE SadiSm. but also represents an unuualifiabIe dis
regard of the natural respect due to wOmanhOOd by
every man. A respect which, in its ancient essence,
Is linked to the being who gives us life.
GAS a son, as husband and father. it is, there.
fore, that l appeal to the highest Tribunal of the
Nation, in demand of an INVESTIGATION of this serious
case. which is contrary to the long due climate of
rectificatiOn anxiOuSly desired bv the afflicted cfti-
ZenS. In the certainty that, because of the chiVaIry
of our judicial officials, the dignity of Cuban woman.
hood cannot be outraged with IMMUNITY, | am, Re-
Spectfully, DR.. ]. A. Fresno Albarran".
After this opinion expressed with sObriety and ethical
feelings by the Cuban physician, it only remains, besides
the protest and the condemnation, to reiterate, to the judi
cal authorities, and above all, to the Executive, that, for
the prestige of Cuba and the respect due to wOmanhOOd, an
investigation should be started Immediately, bv persons who
inspire public confidence. and that corresponding punish
ment be delt to those who committed such a crime and,