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...Havana last week there was such tension, such scurrying of Government leaders to U. S. Ambassador Jefferson Caffery, the arbiter of every Cuban crisis, as there has not been since the collapse of Provisional President Dr. Ramon Grau San Martin's Government (TIME, Jan. 22, 19-34). This pother seemed to be preparation for a showdown between Cuba's military and Cuba's politicians. Real Strong Man of the Army is ruthless Lieut. Colonel Inspector José Pedraza Calvera, but the military's mouthpiece is Colonel Fulgencio Batista who likes to play at being a dictator...
During the turbulent days following the abdication of the dictator Machado, Cuba was gripped in the throes of fear. A quick succession of presidents, including Grau San. Martin, de Cespedes and finally Mendieta made for suspicion and distrust. The efforts of Dr. BcBain of Columbia resulted in a new electoral system, and the government of the United States was largely instrumental in advising the Cuban government during the remodelling of its constitution. With these vital changes came a feeling of trust and good-will and through the reciprocal tariff agreement Cuba was largely restored to that prosperity which was hers...
...Senatorial patriotism and prestige. Thus it was that Senators Nye & Wheeler popped up in Havana last week at the behest of unhappy holders of $40,000,000 of Public Works bonds issued in the U. S. in the twilight of the Machado dictatorship. After Machado fled, the Grau San Martin Government repudiated the loan as illegally contracted, and the Cuban Supreme Court is now pondering charges that the Machado Administration and Chase National Bank, which underwrote the issue, had "usurped authority and entered into bribery." Chairman Winthrop Aldrich of Chase indignantly denied such irregularity but since 1933 Cuba has paid...
...President John W. Young of Federal Laboratories, Inc. brought gifts for the committee-one wooden model of a Thompson submachine gun, two sample gas bombs, one packet of sickening-gas crystals. On the stand Armsman Young told how in December 1933 he sold President Ramon Grau of Cuba 60 submachine guns while simultaneously negotiating with Colonel Mendieta about another revolution. In return Mr. Young was later retained at $12,000 to reorganize the Cuban police force...
...even suspect that a new treaty was in the making. President Roosevelt's immediate purpose in rushing the new pact through at this time was to strengthen the hands of the Mendieta regime which the U. S. helped install in office. Only three weeks ago ex-President Ramon Grau y San Martin returned to Cuba from Mexico to accuse President Mendieta of not keeping his pledge to abrogate the old treaty (TIME...