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...seem to realize that I am a personal friend of the President of the United States," was the reputed parting shot of Ambassador Sumner Welles to President Ramon Grau of Cuba before Mr. Welles returned to Washington (TIME, Dec. 25). Last week President Roosevelt recognized the five-day-old Cuban Government of the Island's new President that shrewd old politico Colonel Carlos Mendieta put in by a coup d'etat (TIME, Jan. 29). Straightway the Colonel cabled to Mr. Welles, now Assistant Secretary of State in Washington: "I am particularly grateful to Your Excellency . . . for your noble...
Arriving in Mexico City last week ousted Cuban President Grau, a surgeon of nation-wide repute, said: "The fact that the United States recognized Mendieta after five days while they didn't recognize me during my four months as President is easily explained. The whole trouble was that I didn't pay interest on the Cuban debt to the Chase National Bank of New York City, my reason being that I considered theirs an illegal contract made by the [ousted] Tyrant [of Cuba] Machado" (TIME...
...choice early last week of Carlos Hevia y Reyes Gavilan that he cut off Cabana Fortress' 21-gun salute to the New President at the count of nine. Gently he began to move his troops into Havana, to police stations, doorways, roofs. His chief opponent, ex-President Grau's ubiquitous Secretary of War, Navy and Interior Antonio Guiteras, a onetime pharmacist who had somehow got Cuba's 1,000 sailors in his pocket, fled to a Cuban gunboat in the harbor. A few amiable soldiers and civilians stood guard around President Hevia's palace. Getting...
With the calm of a great surgeon, which he is, President Dr. Ramon Grau con tinued last week to sign breath-taking decrees in the small hours of the night. Scratch-the Presidential pen dismissed famed Manhattan Lawyer Thomas L. Chadbourne, author of the Chadbourne Plan of world sugar crop restriction from his post as President of the Cuban Na tional Sugar Exporting Corp. (see p. 48). Official reason: "Mr. Chadbourne is a foreigner." Scratch-Surgeon Grau signed an agra rian decree bestowing on every "indigent farmer" in Cuba 33 acres of land, a yoke of oxen...
...Cuba. With those powers Chadbourne argued the big sugar growers of the world to agree to world restriction. He got his cartel working just as Depression hit the world at large. When Cuba could stand no more Depression Machado was ousted. Last week was Chadbourne's turn. President Grau San Martin issued an edict ousting him from the presidency of National Sugar Exporting Corp., keystone of the Chadbourne sugar cartel...