Word: cuba
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...felt, the mechanical-his was perhaps the most imaginative. For Muñoz Marin, around again after his illness (TIME, March 31), did not merely spout the old phrases or wave the old words. He appealed for a united celebration of all the independence days of the Western Hemisphere (Cuba's May 20, Argentina's May 25, Venezuela's July 5, Mexico's Sept. 16) on the Fourth of July-which is "symbolic of the liberty of nations, the liberty of the world, which is greater than nations, and of man, also greater than nations...
...Americas were also cold to Hitler's call. Mexico condemned the German invasion as "one of the most tragic violations of international ethics recorded in history." Cuba declared its "moral identification with the position of the peoples of the American Continent and the statements of President Roosevelt toward the defense of America and democratic principles." Other Latin-American nations remained silent, recognizing better than many North Americans the realities of the situation...
Died. Dr. Octavio Zubizarreta, 68, who as Cuba's Secretary of the Interior under ill-famed President Machado ran the secret police, was blamed for numerous wholesale political assassinations; in bed; in a Havana suburb...
...President Fulgencio Batista of Cuba reaffirmed Cuba's neutrality to a workers' meeting...
Toward the end of the winter, the First made its final foray: a 14-day dash, well southeast of Cuba. Howlin' Mad was satisfied with the results, with the outfit in general. It was time to go home...