Word: cubans
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...high Cuban official reported that when (and if) Batista returns to Havana, he will be arrested, "for criminal, not political, offenses...
...both countries the sugar issue was mixed with political dynamite. The Cuban delegation appointed by Batista had been firmly instructed by the politically potent sugar interests to accept nothing less than 3.25? a Ib. But the CCC, with the powerful U.S. sugar lobby leering over its shoulder, could not offer the Cubans a higher price unless they gave domestic U.S. sugar-growers a price increase. Further, the action might set a precedent: Brazil would want more for its coffee, and other nations, chafing under U.S. ceiling prices on their products, might balk at contracting ahead...
...next meeting the Cuban sugar-growers may be even less interested in the U.S. price, for the growers' bargaining powers in both Cuba and the U.S. will become greater as the war runs down. World stocks of sugar are low: demand exceeds supply. In the U.S. last week, distributors' stocks of sugar were down to 680,706 tons v. 1.2 million a year ago. Grocers in the Midwest were hanging out "no sugar" signs. Soon European buyers may re-enter the market, flood Havana with huge orders in competition with the U.S., and bid sugar prices far higher...
Impressed by this warning, many of Benitez's officer friends deserted him. But Benitez did not give up at once. At one formal gathering, in Ambassador Braden's presence, Benitez denounced both Batista and Grau, kept calling each of them "cabrón" (Cuban for son-of-a-bitch). Then Batista struck. He fired Benitez from the Army, packed him off to Miami. For Señor (no longer General) Benitez, Ambassador Braden issued a rush-order visa...
Died. Norman Hezekiah Davis, 65, national chairman of the American Red Cross, onetime U.S. Ambassador-at-Large; of a cerebral hemorrhage; in Hot Springs, Va. At 39, he had made $1,000,000 in Cuban banking and Cuban sugar, retired to devote himself to public service. His financial, diplomatic and organizational talents were enlisted by four Presidents. Of him fellow-Tennessean Cordell Hull said: "Few persons have had the privilege of rendering to their country and to other countries such a full measure of useful service...