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...noon of counting day, Batista knew that the opposition candidate, Dr. Ramón Grau San Martin, had defeated Batista's close friend and protégé, Dr. Carlos Saladrigas. Not since 1913 had Cuban Government candidates lost at the polls...
...Freedom. In Havana's streets the miracle dawned upon the people. By afternoon they were milling in the parks and plazas, blowing horns, waving flags, beating bongo drums, dancing the Conga down the magnificent Prado. Loudly they cheered for Grau San Martin. Even more loudly they cheered Fulgencio Batista, the strong man who had muscled democracy into Cuba...
...first the strong man made and broke Presidents: seven of them in seven years, including Grau San Martin, whom he propped up for a few months (September 1933-January 1934). He fattened the Army from 8,000 to 20,000 men, gave it one-fourth of Cuba's budget. He put down political unrest with a hard sergeant's hand...
...From Callao, Peru, two German ships sailed in the night without clearance papers. Next day the Peruvian cruiser Almirante Grau found them burning 200 miles offshore. Two larger ships which tried to sail were halted by five shots from the cruiser Coronel Bolognesi. Their crews fired them in the harbor. At Paita another German ship was burned. Peru retaliated by seizing the hangars and workshops and two Junkers planes of the Lufthansa airline, by taking possession of the assets of Lufthansa and German shipping companies...
...already Opposition leaders, such as onetime President Ramón Grau San Martin, holding that Batista's occasional liberal gestures have always been for dictatorial ends, suggested in Cuban radio broadcasts that their only hope lay in another, anti-Batista revolution. As far as Washington was concerned, Cuba already had the right President. Contemplated was a possible loan to Cuba by the U. S. Export-Import Bank of $50,000,000 for the development of agriculture, mining, secondary roads, public works, tourism, hospitals, schools, with $10,000,000 earmarked for "balancing the budget...