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...Senators, 162 members of the House of Representatives, six provincial governors and more than 150 mayors. Cuba has a dozen political parties, roughly herded into one of two coalition groups: the Government coalition, whose candidate for President is Colonel Fulgencio Batista, and the opposition front, which nominated Dr. Ramon Grau San Martin, onetime (1933-34) President and head of the "Revolutionary Party." Last week Dr. Grau got mad and withdrew...
What Strong Man Batista wants in this election is opposition but not too much opposition. Last March Candidate Batista made a deal with General Mario Garcia Menocal who thereupon withdrew his candidacy. Then the remaining opposition parties got together on Dr. Grau, with the understanding that the vice-presidential nomination should go to the ABC (semi-Fascist) candidate, Joaquin Martinez Saenz, that the Republican Action Party's leader, onetime President Miguel Mariano Gómez, should be the nominee for Mayor of Havana, No. 2 political job on the island. But election laws require that each party nominate...
...opponent at all, Strong Man Batista was in a worse fix than if he had had a strong opponent. If he is elected unopposed, his enemies can raise the cry of dictatorship, which Strong Man Batista would hate to hear. At week's end he pleaded with Dr. Grau to reconsider his withdrawal, to file again before the deadline, April...
...laws. Quill, the meek little man who used to think that men who wore top hats never had to go to the bathroom, is overplayed by Hume Cronyn. Barbara Robbins as Evelyn Quill does nothing to redeem a role which is entirely out of key. Harold Grau, Matt Briggs, Naomi Rae, and Otto Hulett are all good, and Donald Oenslager's hotel room set is particularly effective...
...Batistafied election, finished grinding sugar at his central (mill) in Camagüey and turned up in Havana for "unofficial talks" with Dr. Gómez. That was exciting enough, but not nearly so much a sign of political spring as the news that onetime President Dr. Ramon Grau San Martin, who has been living in Miami since Boss Batista turned him out in January 1934, was proposing to return. Strong though General Menocal is, Dr. Grau, a deep Pink if not a real Red, is even stronger with the Cuban electorate, and Batista might welcome him back...