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...compromise presidency of Hevia failed when Guiteras, Secretary of War and Interior in the Grau San Martin cabinet, announced that the radical steps which he supported must be carried out and that his arch-enemy, Colonel Batista, must resign. In order to accomplish this, at his instigation the employees of the Cuban utilities trust went on strike and the government was forced to take over the company; yesterday morning all employees in the departments of Communications, Interior, Justice, Public Works, Instruction, and Health went on strike. Senor Guiteras then retired into his stronghold in the provinces. With the gauntlet thus...
With few friends and little cash, Cuba's President Ramon Grau considered it more important to pay his Army last week than to send to the U. S. $3,950,000 due in interest and arrears on public works loans contracted by deposed Dictator Machado. Bluntly Cuban Secretary of the Treasury Colonel Manuel Despaigne announced that Cuba would default on these obligations "until such time as the whole situation can be thoroughly discussed ... to determine which part if any [of the obligations] is legal." He declared that the $62,000,000 principal of the loans was secured by special...
...this Grau chiseling were Manhattan's Chase National Bank for $1,750,000 and Boston's First National for $2,200,000. Pained they were but scarcely surprised, for they well knew in what a precarious spot President Grau...
...accordance with the International Sugar Agreement of 1930, President Grau last week set Cuba's sugar production quota for 1934 and allotted the picayune total of 1,500,000 tons for export to the U. S. There is no way of negotiating for an increase in that allotment until President Roosevelt recognizes the Grau Government. Thus the present allotment effectually sentences Cuba to economic bankruptcy. Everything depended last week on what President Roosevelt's new personal representative, Jefferson Caffery, would...
...private dinner in Havana Mr. Caffery saw President Grau's inquisitive, narrow face, Generalissimo Fulgencio Batista's flat, boisterous visage. Warily the three drew together. Next night Mr. Caffery went to the Palace for dinner. He told newshawks afterward that neither he nor President Grau had mentioned U. S. recognition. When President Roosevelt's non-intervention speech was published several days later, Generalissimo Batista tried his hand at a little fulsome diplomacy: "I always knew Roosevelt's policy was based on the solid, ample force of the great, free American people, which respects the rights...