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...American Conference at Montevideo (see p. 12), the Cuban Government denounced Ambassador Welles for "intrigue" against President Grau San Martin. In Havana, despite the traditional close-mouthed clannishness of diplomats, Mr. Welles was also denounced by Dr. Fernandez y Medina, the Uruguayan Minister to Cuba. For the past month Dr. Fernandez has been negotiating among Cuban politicians with an aim similar to that usually ascribed to Mr. Welles, namely, to obtain by peaceful persuasion the resignation of Dr. Ramon Grau San Martin as President and the formation of a coalition government which would hold a fair Cuban election...
Something of great import to all Cuba leaked out of President Roosevelt's Warm Springs swimming pool last week: able Ambassador Sumner Welles, known to be antipathetic to the Grau San Martin regime, was about to be withdrawn. By midnight the rumor became certainty with an official announcement from the President. Ambassador Welles was to be succeeded by Assistant Secretary of State Jefferson Caffery. But. as a direct snub to the Grau Government, Mr. Welles was to return to Havana for a brief period, still U. S. Ambassador. When Mr. Caffery succeeds him it will be as an unofficial...
Havana last week took the announcement with surface calm. No one could dodge the fact that recognition of the Grau regime seemed definitely denied, but President Grau did give out a statement...
...First visitor at the "Little White House" at Warm Springs was U. S. Ambassador to Cuba Sumner Welles, who had flown up from Havana. For weeks President Grau San Martin had been agitating the removal of Mr. Welles, on the grounds that his sympathies still lay with the de Cespedes regime. Following the U. S. precedent of never removing an envoy under fire without a policy change, President Roosevelt after a five-hour conference persuaded Mr. Welles to return to his post after a quick trip to Washington to see Acting Secretary of State Phillips...
...rebels' dismay most of the Army and all the Navy stayed loyal to President Grau and Emperor Batista. Four field guns were unlimbered, trained on the fort. The first few shells were completely wild, either kicking up dirt harmlessly below the fort or shrieking off into Havana's residential district thousands of yards beyond with most embarrassing results. But soon they dropped shell after shell into the fort. With cannon, anti-aircraft and machine guns the rebels replied, scored their greatest success by smashing a field gun on Burro Hill, mile and a half away, with two shots...