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...battle of Barnet, Earl Warwick was slain...
...code (TIME, Dec. 16). New factor was that Cuba's pious, conservative women had the vote for the first time. Meanwhile, unwilling to accept the responsibility of either holding or postponing the election, provisional President Carlos Mendieta resigned his job to his meek Secretary of State Jose A. Barnet y Vina-gres (TIME, Dec. 23). Of all the dozen "sectors" and their might-have-been candidates who once shrilled for Cuba's attention, only Gomez and Menocal last week actually ran for President. As the ballots were counted by the lazy and inefficient clerks, it appeared more & more...
Automatically this made Cuba's colorless and cautious Secretary of State Jose A. Barnet y Vinagres Acting President. Next day the electoral College elected him the Republic's sixth President in 28 months. He clung to about the only thing in Cuba's political ferment he could cling to, the date set by Princeton's Dodds for the next regular election of a President of Cuba...
...report of Dr. Barnet's election to the provisional presidency of Cuba presages a peaceful and legal election toward the end of December, when the constitutional president will be chosen. The resignation of former President Mendieta was a wise and politic move and it has proved conclusively that the welfare of the reborn republic has always been foremost in his mind...
...political groups to dominate the scene through an alliance. Their plan foiled by the declaration of the Electoral Council that such a move would be unconstitutional, they refused to fall back into line. Dr. Mendieta's resignation has allowed a compromise and his place will be filled by Dr. Barnet who, as Secretary of State is the logical choice and who has the support of the army chief, Fulgencio Batista...