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...luxurious third-floor apartment of Havana's rococo presidential palace, bachelor Ramón Grau San Martin had finished his morning cup of sweet black coffee. On the stroke of 9 he walked down the private stairway to his office below. He was ready for a day-long procession of visitors...
Long medical practice (at $50,000 a year) has made Grau one of Cuba's best listeners, and he gets many a political earful. One morning last week, six deputations (a women's delegation, veterans, politicians, sugar growers, students, labor leaders) and a succession of individual pleaders poured out their complaints to him. Grau, grey and even more austere than in 1944, heard every...
Despite good times and a boom in sugar, Cubans were griping last week. From scrubby street gamins in Havana's Barrio de Colén to the panama-hatted businessmen in the Manzana de Gémez, they panned Grau for the high price of lard, the scarcity of beef, the roaring black market. There were demands in the press for his resignation. Habaneros tell the story of the Camaguey man who had been badly beaten up for talking about Grau. "Did you say very bad things about him?" asked a sympathetic cop. "No, I praised him, and then...
Honesty Is Not Enough. What had happened to Grau? Was he not the man who was going to clean up Cuba after Batista? During his dramatic 127 days' presidency in the 1933 revolution, many of Cuba's most progressive laws were enacted. On taking office again in 1944, Grau said: "There is nothing wrong with Cuba that an honest administration can't cure." To show his good faith, he publicly declared the extent of his fortune ($231,512 in cash and securities, plus real estate). But graft did not stop-for in Cuba...
...nearly three years of the Grau administration, 58 political murders have been committed; just two men have been arrested and none convicted. After Eddy Chibas' charge that Grau's Commerce Minister played the black market, the Minister resigned. And Grau, the professed democrat, governs by decree just like Batista. He has an alliance with the Communists that all but the Commies deplore. His attempt to seize for the Government the differential between the 1947 and 1946 sugar prices has alienated 50,000 sugar growers and a large part of his Autentico Party. "Never in the Republic...