Word: cubas
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Reading in your issue of May 18 the article on Cuba, and not knowing who the author may be, I was surprised by the amount of information that he manifested. But . . . that article was absolutely wrong about the way in which General Armando Andre came to his end. . . . Had I been bumped off, last night, by a bomb which exploded near me, then the world would never have known the truth on this point...
...filthiest publication in the world, and. sad to say, is under the protection of the United States of America: through the influence of a very powerful American insurance company) had its editor, Carbo, Sergio Carbo, been similarly destroyed, several years ago, the moral tone of every last child in Cuba would have been spared the infamous pollution that Carbo has fouled its receptive mind with; so insidiously degrading and degenerate, that no wholesome minded man can have any conception of. La Scinana has polluted the National mind of Cuba, from her marble palaces to her most outlying and poverty stricken...
Sent to stamp out Cuba's rebellion in Santa Clara Province, Dictator Machado's strong-arm man Major Arsenio Ortiz last week stamped furiously. Than catching and trying nimble rebels, he found it easier ?o shoot and hang any suspected person he could lay hands on. Such last fortnight were three guards of a U. S.-owned sugar mill at Jatibonico. Ortiz had them slaughtered on suspicion. The company's vice president posted off to Havana to protest to U. S. Ambassador Sumner Welles. Soon Ortiz followed, talked with officials and flew back to the Santa Clara...
...mention of the call. One enthusiastic censor forbade all future mention of Mr. Welles. Next day Mr. Welles had luncheon with Machado and the man Machado had just made his Secretary of War & Marine: General Alberto Herrera. As Secretary of State Ferrara sailed for London at the head of Cuba's delegation to the World Economic Conference. Machado made Herrera Acting Secretary of State as well. Thus, his Cabinet was heavily military...
Meantime, from the hill rebellion in eastern Cuba began to come names of leaders. One was Colonel Juan Bias Hernandez whose name showed brightly on Ortiz' posters offering $500 reward for his capture, dead or alive. Airplanes had failed to spot Hernandez' hill hideout. His mounted band knifed swiftly again & again at government troops, ripped off a few and swerved back into the hills. Last week he challenged them, "Come...