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Meanwhile other soldiers combed Havana. They dragged from bed at 6 a.m. a fine collection of former Army officers (including two ex-aides of ex-President Fulgencio Batista), one private, a few civilians. All the officers except one air force lieutenant had been dismissed from the service by President Grau...
President Ramón Grau San Martín signed a decree last week, granting $772,000 for a Workers' Palace in Havana. A block long, with a huge auditorium, luxurious offices, it will serve as headquarters for the Communist-led Confederation of Cuban Workers. Nowhere else in Latin America will labor have such a home...
Behind the grant lay a snarl of politics, tangled even for Cuba. In last year's election the Confederation of Cuban Workers fought against Grau, supported President Fulgencio Batista, who had legalized the Communist Party (now called the Popular Socialist Party), helped its labor branch develop political force...
...election, but the Communists won a strategic advantage. With three seats in the Senate, they held the balance of power. Under their crack-voiced mulatto leader, Lázaro Peña, they were in a position, to put a demolition charge under the President whenever they chose to. Grau paid for their support with wage increases, other favors, of which the most dazzling was the Workers' Palace...
Another handy club was burly ex-President Batista, who enriched himself in office. After losing to Grau, he has wandered in Latin America, in unofficial exile. But the Communists did not forget their oldtime friend. Recently, they extracted a promise from Grau not to prosecute Batista if he should return to Cuba. If he does return, the Batista-Communist team can pose a serious threat to Grau's well-meaning regime...