Word: cuba
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Fulgencio Batista, Cuba's dynamic President, hates fat Francisco Franco of Spain and does not care who knows it. A month ago, after a visit to Washington, President Batista announced that an Allied invasion of Falangist Spain would bring a "total ovation . . . throughout all Latin America" (TIME...
...Cuba's more than 4,000,000 inhabitants, about 250,000 are nonnaturalized Spaniards, including some 4,000 Loyalist refugees. Presumably most of these Spanish citizens intend to return home some day, since they have failed to take out Cuban citizenship. If .the Circle extends any appreciable influence, it will be in leading these Spaniards to demand a Republican Spain to which to return. With Mexico's 15,000 Loyalists and some 30,000 in North Africa, they may become an important factor in post-war Spanish politics...
...Cuba's shrewd, ebullient President Fulgencio Batista is no dilettante in power politics. He is a tough hombre who speaks his mind. Last week, after visiting with Washington dignitaries in the U.S., Batista said his piece about a pompous, would-be tough guy across the Atlantic. His theme: If the United Nations go to war with Francisco Franco's Spain, Latin America will be on the United Nations' side...
...Cuba, President Batista said, the only elements that would not applaud such a move are Cuban Falangists, now being rounded up in droves as fifth columnists. Possibly there was some hyperbole in Batista's claim that an invasion of Spain would receive "a total ovation for the Allied cause throughout all Latin America." But, by being blunt, Batista expressed for the first time the sentiments of millions of good friends of democracy in the Western Hemisphere who are tired of apologies and flatteries for Franco...
Ever since 1875 when Emperor Franz Josef shook his royal britches to the tune of the Afro-Cuban habanera, the world has imported a remarkably large part of its popular music from Cuba. But only in recent years has this import business mushroomed into a sizable industry. Captain of that industry today is a black-haired, rather chinless band leader, Xavier Cugat (rhymes with glue pot), who gets an annual gross of $500,000 purveying the Cuban rumba and other Latin-American rhythms to the U.S. public. Last week Importer Cugat was at the peak of his career...