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...Ambassador Welles," blazed Minister Fernandez, "spoiled everything! We had everything set. The only matter pending was setting the date for President Grau's resignation and it is solely Ambassador Welles stepping out of bounds which caused the failure. I have lost 20 days work because Mr. Welles did not deign to follow my advice...
...advice, apparently, was to abstain from pressing President Grau too brusquely to resign. The pressure, according to Havana correspondents, was exerted by Senor Dorta Duque, "a close friend of Mr. Welles." When the Ambassador denied, just before he left Havana, that he had acted in any other role than that of "friendly observer," Uruguay's Dr. Fernandez said: "A rupture was produced by persons who represented themselves as connected with Mr. Welles...
...this writer's lot to sit beside the correspondent of a leading news agency last night and heli speed to Mr. Welles the telephonic information that the Ambassador's house had fallen down i. e. that negotiations for President Grau's resignation had failed]. Mr. Welles's reaction, on learning what had happened, was a request that the informant please telephone the news to the writer he had first named to spread tidings...
...Ambassador's plane landed him in Miami, exiled Cuban foes of President Grau embarrassed Mr. Welles by hailing him as one who had "done his best" to oust the President. An impulsive anti-Grau senorita made the Ambassador blush by flinging her arms around his neck and whispering something...
This week the Cuban "mess"' boiled up as Mr. Caffery neared Havana. Mobsters friendly to the government sacked, looted and burned the opposition newsorgan El Pats ("The Fatherland' ). Dr. Grau defiantly announced that he will remain Provisional President until May 20, 1934, will then hand his resignation to a Cuban Constituent Assembly elected under his rule. At this declaration bombs burst in air all over Havana. The rattle of rifle fire was heard through the night. But the morrow brought Mr. Caffery's steamer and sufficient calm for several hundred Cubans and U. S. citizens to stage...