Word: cubans
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Major General Leonard Wood ordered the U. S. flag struck over Havana's Morro Castle. Up went the Cuban flag (blue & white stripes, a triangular red field with one white star). Cuba's Independence Day came & went last week and seldom had Cubans felt less independent. In the eastern provinces of Santa Clara, Camaguey and Oriente rebellion was smoldering precisely as it did 40 years ago when Spain was Cuba's tyrant. Some 2,000 insurrectos were hiding out in the hills at war with the regime of Dictator Gerardo Machado. They were mostly well-horsed, wellarmed...
...Rural Guard patrol in Sancti Spiritus, killed three guardsmen. Twenty-five of them quietly overran and pillaged the sympathetic village of Taguasco. Others derailed a Havana-Santa Clara City passenger train, dynamited railway bridges at Jiqui, Donato and Tarafa. They looked for reinforcements, ammunition and money from the Cuban exiles in Miami. Cuba's onetime President Mario Menocal had disappeared from Miami. Some said (but few believed) he was on the high seas with the men and guns the Santa Clara rebels wanted. In Manhattan the Junta, sending out for more ice water, went on bickering because "the time...
Junta. All the polite protests of Sumner Welles could not convince close observers last week that the Roosevelt Administration entirely approved of Gerardo Machado. Certainlv anti-Machadoans did not believe it. Reporters discovered that the 3,000 Cuban exiles in Washington. Miami. New York were convinced of and acting upon the following: Hating 10 revive the old war-cry of Yankee Imperialism before the World Economic Conference at London next month. Washington has fought shy of armed intervention under the Platt Amendment.* The April series of political assassinations shocked President Roosevelt into the determination that Machado must go. From Washington...
...Warren Brothers, then awarded them the contract. They built the road at the magnificent rate of $120,000 a mile (similar road building costs about $40,000 a mile elsewhere in Cuba) which netted nearly $30,000,000 in graft for Machado & friends. Similar business with the new Cuban capitol building brought in another...
...revolutionary ancestors. It is a youth movement, largely Fascist in ideas. It believes in breaking up the vast U. S. controlled plantations, establishing a real national currency, a national bank of issue, ending the Government lotteries and having compulsory military service to replace the swaggering professionals of the present Cuban army. But the A. B. C. has as yet no Mussolini, no Hitler...