Word: cuba
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Small Cuba held up the whole League of Nations one day last week, but Cuba's holdupman was not small. Like some mighty Mutt he roared defiance at a little Jeff from Greece who sought to uphold League prestige. Surveying the somewhat comic champions, spectators beheld: in this corner tall, 175-lb. Senor Don Orestes Ferrara whose regular job is Cuban Ambassador at Washington; in that corner foxy, 135-lb. Dr. Nicolas Politis, agile Athenian word-wangler...
...Greek started the fight, taxed Cuba with being the sole objector to unanimous adoption of the World Court's so-called "Revision Protocol."? Already 24 League states have ratified the change. Indignantly M. Politis rose to declare that "a great effort of international goodwill has been made by all save one state. . . . Though it may not be fitting to criticize that state, does not this most unusual situation require some explanation...
...fair1y bellowed strapping Senor Ferara, while startled Dr. Politis stepped nervously back a pace. "NO? Cuba entered the League regarding it as a society of nations, not as a superstate able to override the sovereignty of any member. . . . My country will not submit to dictation by M. Politis, nor by Greece, nor by any member of the League! ... It seems to me that what M. Politis is doing is making an election speech...
Closed it remained throughout the week, with Cuba blocking progress. Why was she so stubborn? Correspondents in close touch with her internal political situation produced a startling, characteristically Cuban reason...
Tucked away in the protocol of revision to which Cuba objects is a clause providing that hereafter World Court judges shall spend their whole time at The Hague. This displeases Cuba's World Court bencher, famed Judge Antonio Sanchez de Bustamante, recent President of the Pan-American Congress (TIME, Jan. 16 & Feb. 27, 1928). Trading on his international prestige, on his close friendship with Cuban Dictator-President Gerardo Machado, the learned judge makes a good thing of his "vacations" in Havana. The fees of his law firm swell yearly. Bluntly, this potent Cuban feels that all Hague and no play...