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...After a while you get to know certain things and govern yourself accordingly. You do not, of course, just drop in on President Alemán. But once you are with him, he sits back for a long chat with you as if he had nothing on his mind but to solve your problems. He has an extraordinary amount of that Mexican charm I was speaking about...
...advance publicity. Then Trujillo threatened to protest to the U.N., and the U.S. State Department passed the word that it was against the whole scheme. Finally, Cuban Army Boss Genovevo, who had opposed the filibuster from the start, seized much of the expedition's arsenal on Education Minister Alemán's estate near Havana. Grau's hand was forced (TIME, Oct. 6). The Army and Navy went to work, and the invasion...
Last week President Grau, still the man of Cuba's 1933 revolution, still conscious that revolutionists' votes elected him in 1944, freed the expeditionaries (including three Americans) and stood by Minister Alemán. Compelled by a Senate vote of no-confidence and Army pressure to shift Alemán from the Education Ministry, he immediately made him minister without portfolio. After all, as last week's welcome showed, Dominican freedom is still a popular cause in Cuba...
Strikers jammed the Zócalo under the office of District Governor Fernando Casas Alemán to protest the arrest of three union leaders, and told the Governor that "functionaries who ordered these arrests don't know the humble pot of beans." The men were released, the strikers went back to work. Bread prices stayed up, but bakers agreed to put 75% of their production in the small, 5 centavo loaf, only 25% in more expensive sizes...
...dining room of Mexico City's unfinished Prado Hotel stood Muralist Diego Rivera, critically studying a wall. President Alemán himself had ordered that the city's toniest hotel be completed in time for November's UNESCO conference, and all around Rivera's paunchy figure carpenters and electricians bent noisily to the presidential will. But Rivera's own share of the work, he at last decided, was done. An assistant handed him a round brush wet with yellow paint, and Rivera quickly added a few touches. Then he thrust his soft little hands into...