Word: cuba
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...during the Civil War. Southernmost U. S. port, situated on a coral island 60 mi. southwest of the Florida mainland (now joined by the oversea Florida East Coast R. R.), during the Spanish War it was concentration centre for the U. S. Atlantic Fleet, embarkation point for many a Cuba-bound soldier. During the World War it served as a Naval flyers' training station, since has been a repair port and operating base for submarines, destroyers. Last week the Navy Department, pursuing the Administration's rigid-economy plans, ordered this historic base closed, together with its industrial plants...
Closed it remained throughout the week, with Cuba blocking progress. Why was she so stubborn? Correspondents in close touch with her internal political situation produced a startling, characteristically Cuban reason...
Tucked away in the protocol of revision to which Cuba objects is a clause providing that hereafter World Court judges shall spend their whole time at The Hague. This displeases Cuba's World Court bencher, famed Judge Antonio Sanchez de Bustamante, recent President of the Pan-American Congress (TIME, Jan. 16 & Feb. 27, 1928). Trading on his international prestige, on his close friendship with Cuban Dictator-President Gerardo Machado, the learned judge makes a good thing of his "vacations" in Havana. The fees of his law firm swell yearly. Bluntly, this potent Cuban feels that all Hague and no play...
...short session next December, would be asked to vote U. S. adherence to the World Court. Even with the "Revision Protocol" blocked, adherence could be voted by the Senate with acceptance of the famed "Root Protocol," the two being parallel documents. But last week the President, far from whipcracking Cuba or preparing to wheedle the Senate, gave correspondents to understand that he plans postponement of the entire issue until next year...
...Poverty and unemployment are feeding the flames of political unrest! What has happened recently in South American Republics would seem to be inevitable in Cuba unless the influence of our government is exerted immediately to avert trouble...