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Last September Capt. Juan Blas Hernandez, a bowlegged old bushwhacker who fought Tyrant Machado for years and had started a lively little campaign against the Grau Government, suddenly appeared in Havana, publicly embracing not only President Grau but also swart "Emperor" Fulgencio Batista, the onetime Sergeant who led the Army's revolt against its officers, and to the world's surprise has maintained control of the Army ever since...
...only conceivable solution of the Cuban problem, as I see it, is for our Administration to recognize the present Grau government in Cuba." This statement was made in a lecture on "The Crisis in Cuba," at Adams House last night, by Professor Raymond Leslie Buell, visiting lecturer in International Relations...
...most of the difficulties which have brought about the economic condition causing the present crisis. "The Administration," said Professor Buell, "appreciates this, and is desirous of economic reform. But, having failed to manage successfully the first revolution, the State Department hesitates to adopt any positive policy toward the existing Grau government." Professor Buell believes, however, that the United States must soon recognize the Cuban Government, and enter immediately into a reconsideration of the reciprocity treaties, and support a strong program of economic reconstruction by means of financial assistance...
After two days of severe fighting marked by heavy loss of life, President Grau San Martin of Cuba has managed to maintain his quavering regime and crush the revolution engineered by the ABC and the supporters of de Cespedes. Unfortunately, this does not mean that the anarchic conditions prevailing in Cuba are at an end, for the San Martin government is still highly unstable, and many of the causes of the present situation are directly traceable to the attitude of the United States...
...forts which dot the mainland; gunboats fought it out with land batteries, machine-guns with snipers, while General Batiste directed his troops with aplomb from the depths of his armored car. Perhaps the most discouraging detail of the whole mess is that there seems so little to choose between Grau San Martin, the present dictator, and the A.B.C.'s candidate, Signor Cespedes, than whom no man more resembles a desiccated prune. The other fracas which cropped up recently was the neat assassination of King Nadir Shah of the Afghans at Kabul, the capital of that peculiar nation. Though in natural...