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President Ramon Grau's Government was shaking last week with symptoms much like those that broke out in the closing days of hated tyrant Machado's regime. Detonating bombs boomed through the land, railroad tracks were being blown up, soldiers were shooting striking workers. Finally the National Labor Confederation called a great general strike throughout Cuba, to last two days in Havana, three days in the interior, with the possibility of indefinite extension. Admitting his Government's shakiness, President Grau tried to pass the blame for Cuba's woes to President Roosevelt. Groused he, "Nonrecognition...
...went the cork, and Cuba's President Ramon Grau San Martin gratefully drained a glass of champagne last week with Spain's Ambassador Luciano Lopez Ferrer. The occasion was Spain's formal recognition of Cuba's latest government. Spain was the first European nation so to act, though Mexico, Uruguay, Peru and Panama had already done so. ¶Cuba's long-threatened general strike again failed to materialize. President Grau settled himself a little more solidly in the saddle by signing a smart decree. To persuade Cuba's wild-eyed, well-meaning students...
Next move of President Grau's Government was to deal with the Cuban officers still besieged in the U. S.-owned National Hotel which they turned into an impromptu fortress after the sergeant's coup of "Emperor" Batista (TIME. Sept. 11). Tipped off to expect trouble, the National's U. S. Manager, W. P. Taylor, and his three assistants went out to a late dinner about 10 p. m. and did not return. Shooting started next dawn. Before sundown the entire vicinity was to be a bloody bedlam...
Would the U. S. land Marines to protect U. S. lives? The U. S. Embassy soothed: "There is no indication that any Americans have been killed intentionally." Meanwhile the Battle of the National grew nautical. The hotel faces the sea. President Grau sent Cuba's perky little training ship Patria to shell the officers with her light deck guns. Stubbornly they held out. After five hours of battle, with officer casualties unknown but with 20 soldiers dead and 100 gravely wounded, a group of officers' wives rushed to Ambassador Welles, begged him to stop the bloodshed. "Ladies," cried...
...Emperor" Batista, who had gotten much personal credit for his soldiers' anti-Red foray, was again man of the hour. Correspondents reported strong talk of an Army coup against President Grau. While visiting the wounded next day in his automobile the President was shot at by snipers whose bullets struck his convoy...