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...connoisseur of fine cigars, he dominates meetings of his 400,000-member Confederation with his booming, deliberate voice, his attacks on U.S. imperialismo, his praise of Russia. His chief monument is the block-long Palacio de Los Trabajadores (Labor Palace), for which President Ramón Grau San Martin allotted $772,000 to butter up the Communists after they had given him a political hotfoot...
Labor leaders who belong to President Grau's Auténtico (Cuban Revolutionary Party) stayed away from the Congress; so did independents. They called it illegal, because the Government commission appointed to check delegates' credentials had not finished its work. At week's end the anti-Communist forces tentatively scheduled a "legal Congress" for May 18, speculated on who would control the Confederation's treasury if there were rival officers. They wondered if this would force President Grau, who needs Communist support for his administration, to take a stand for or against his Red allies...
...easygoing President Ramón Grau San Martin, himself an Auténtico, at last moving to oust his political allies, the Communists, from the C.T.C., thus curb them as a political party? Some Auténtico leaders thought so. If that happened, the C.T.C. would probably shed its C.T.A.L. connections and hook up with the A.F.L-sponsored, right-wing Inter-American Federation of Labor. But smooth, well-tailored Don Vicente, back in his Mexican penthouse office, said "our relations with Grau are still cordial; he believes, as ever, in the ideals of the C.T.A.L...
...flew to Havana, was closeted three and four times daily with his good friend Grau. While Prime Minister Carlos Prio Socarras, an avowed candidate, cooled his heels outside the President's second-floor office. Belt used a private stairway to the third-floor apartment where Grau lived. Said Prio nervously: "If I last till Wednesday, I'm saved...
...Friday, Ambassador Belt flew back to Washington. Prio still had his job (and three new men in his Cabinet). Too smart to make Grau mad by an open declaration of candidacy now, Belt had simply fixed his fences. An old schoolmate of his now manned the pivotal Interior ministry...