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Some Cubans talked even more frankly. Senator "Eddie" Chibás charged that President Grau San Martin and his Army chief had double-crossed the expeditionaries. Certainly Cuba's Government-and Venezuela's and Guatemala's-had originally backed the filibuster. Last summer the invaders learned military drill on Cuban Government school grounds at Holguín, in eastern Cuba. Down to last week, Grau's close friend, Education Minister José Aleman, had kept many of them on his departmental payroll. His department put up most of the $1,500,000 expedition costs...
...State Department passed the word that it was against the whole scheme. Finally, Cuban Army Boss Genovevo, who had opposed the filibuster from the start, seized much of the expedition's arsenal on Education Minister Alemán's estate near Havana. Grau's hand was forced (TIME, Oct. 6). The Army and Navy went to work, and the invasion...
Thousands turned out for the funeral of Tro, who had been shot in the back trying to save the expectant mother. President Ramon Grau San Martin, under opposition attack for filling high police posts with hotheads, named an Army colonel as supervisor of police...
...Grau had made enough mistakes to rule him right out of the 1948 presidential race, for which his friends once tried to back him despite the constitutional ban on reelection. Hasty critics overlook Grau's educational program (236 schools built, more building), his high-capacity (if slow-building) housing and public-works plans, and his own defense that "never in history has there been...
...face of all the griping, the Army, so important in Cuban politics, is still on Grau's side. That makes for security. Most weekends Grau hops into a military plane and flies off with his family and fat, pompous Army Chief Genovevo Pérez Dámera to sun himself on the beach at beautiful Veradero...