Word: cubans
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...most of them were furiously outraged by the Revolt of the Sergeants. They knew they could never return to their commands without loss of face. When Top Sergeant Batista called back "officers whose records were not stained by participation in the misdeeds of the Machado regime," 300 of the Cuban Army's proudest officers boiled over. Figuring it was their last chance to tell Batista what they thought of him, they went in a body to see him, led by Col. Horacio Ferrer who had been President de Cespedes' Secretary of War. Sergeant Fulgencio Batista left that meeting...
...could be held, a new census would be needed to clean up the election rolls. To the sugar-workers of the interior, he added that the Junta "has no anti-agrarian tendencies." From the Palace balcony, Commissioner Carbo roared to the crowd, "For the first time in history the Cuban people will rule their own destinies...
...student element [ABC] once had the sympathy of the Cuban people, when they were denied by Machado the education to which they were entitled. Now they have forgotten all this and are irresponsible children who have assumed the prerogatives of men. Children cannot dictate the Government of Cuba...
Against the officers the new President had the one potent weapon to hold all Cubans together: Cuban fear of U. S. intervention. Early in the week Commissioner Carbo had declared that "the presence of U. S. battleships in Cuban waters does not mean a threat to Cuban sovereignty.'' But when the U. S. S. Indianapolis carried U. S. Secretary of the Navy Swanson into Havana Harbor, an unknown Cuban fired a pistol at it. And last week the great, grey battleship Mississippi was steaming slowly back & forth off Morro Castle. President Grau San Martin changed the new government...
...with machine guns and bomb racks. Around the airdrome there was much well-mannered excitement, but all that officials would admit was that Squadron 5F under Lieut.-Commander Donald M. Carpenter was flying to Panama- purely routine. Few hours later the Press, already excited by the naval mobilization in Cuban waters headlined: SIX NAVY PLANES ON MYSTERY HOP. Into the Naval Bureau of Aeronautics crackled their progress-over Pamlico Sound, passing the western tip of Cuba, over Grand Cayman. Not until Panama was the nearest land would the Bureau admit that Squadron 5F was out for the world...