Word: cubans
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Only rift in the Conference proceedings came when Cuban Chief Delegate Angel Giraudy interrupted a debate to say: "I declare with deliberation that the United States is intervening in Cuba, strongly intervening! No United States Marines have landed, but the United States has been engaged in intrigue against our president and his Government through Ambassador Sumner Welles [see p. 15]. If that is not intervention, what...
...Sweden's No. 1 tycoon. Mr. Wenner-Gren was not discouraged by his failure to sell his Elektrolux (spelled with a c in U. S.) refrigerator to Mr. Sloan. Mr. Wrenner-Gren eventually got his asking price when he sold to Servel, Inc. the U. S., Canadian and Cuban rights. Through this deal he became Servel's largest stockholder and later a director. After a series of reorganizations Servel emerged in 1928 as a $14,000,000 concern backed by the Brady interests. It makes gasoline engines, truck bodies, mechanical refrigerators in addition to Mr. Wenner-Gren...
...direct snub to the Grau Government, Mr. Welles was to return to Havana for a brief period, still U. S. Ambassador. When Mr. Caffery succeeds him it will be as an unofficial "observer," free to confer with and advise politicos of all parties. The Grau or any other Cuban Government will not be recognized in the U. S. "until there exists in Cuba a provisional government which, through the popular support which it obtains and which through the general co-operation it enjoys, shows evidence of genuine stability...
...only conceivable solution of the Cuban problem, as I see it, is for our Administration to recognize the present Grau government in Cuba." This statement was made in a lecture on "The Crisis in Cuba," at Adams House last night, by Professor Raymond Leslie Buell, visiting lecturer in International Relations...
...crisis. "The Administration," said Professor Buell, "appreciates this, and is desirous of economic reform. But, having failed to manage successfully the first revolution, the State Department hesitates to adopt any positive policy toward the existing Grau government." Professor Buell believes, however, that the United States must soon recognize the Cuban Government, and enter immediately into a reconsideration of the reciprocity treaties, and support a strong program of economic reconstruction by means of financial assistance...