Word: cuba
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Local Communists had announced that they would build a brick obelisk in Fraternity Park and place therein the ashes of one Julio Mella, a Red assassinated in 1929 allegedly by agents of Cuba's detested President Gerardo ("Butcher") Machado. If trouble should break out at the funeral it would give the Army a chance to shoot Reds. President Grau officially refused the Communists permission to build the obelisk, but the Army let Red bricklayers rush it to completion overnight...
Meanwhile President Grau's student supporters, backed by soldiers, raided Communist headquarters, smashed everything they could lay hands on, flung chairs into the street and kept shouting, "We are going to stamp Communism out of Cuba!'' That night correspondents checked a total of six dead, two dying, 20 wounded. The Army's excitable "Emperor" Batista was frantic because his cousin Benito had been wounded...
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...
...bullets peppered buildings in which some 90 U. S. citizens live and work. From Washington, U. S. Secretary of State Cordell Hull queried Ambassador Welles by telephone, then announced that U. S. Citizen Lotspiech was standing in a "needlessly exposed place" when killed, urged all U. S. citizens in Cuba not to expose themselves needlessly...
...Brooklyn Bridge. His wager with Connors is a fine funeral against Connors' barroom. Brodie wins the bet. Chuck Connors thinks he did it dishonestly, gives him a thrashing on an East River barge. The Bowery ends with a reconciliation between Connors and Brodie. They are off to Cuba together, with Swipes concealed in the rumble seat of a gun-wagon...