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...refugees. For four days it had dawdled in the Straits of Florida and the Atlantic while refugee agencies desperately negotiated with the Cuban Government. Off the Florida coast at night its passengers stared long at the lights of Miami. After compelling the St. Louis to leave Havana harbor, President Federico Laredo Bru had offered a temporary haven on the Isle of Pines, pleasure spot and home of the Cuban national penitentiary, provided refugee agencies would post a $500 bond for each individual, a total of $453,500, and further guarantee the cost of Cuban hospitality...
...Twenty-nine passengers whose papers were in order were permitted to land. Remaining were 908 who had only provisional permits of the Cuban Immigration Department to land as passengers en route to the U. S.-and on May 5, nine days before the St. Louis sailed, hard-faced President Federico Laredo Bru had decreed that Cuba required specific permission of the Departments of State, Labor and the Treasury. Rumors spread as Tuesday passed without change, as New York representatives of Jewish relief agencies flew to Havana. The rumors whispered of a longstanding dispute between the Hamburg-American Line...
...Another brother, Federico, the youngest, is a symphony orchestra conductor and composer (Paul Gauguin...
...ways last week Cuba showed her present glowing affection for the U. S. of Good Neighbor Franklin D. Roosevelt. Signed by President Federico Laredo Bru was a bill making July 4 an official holiday for all commercial, industrial, governmental activity. Moved in the Cuban Senate by Liberal Senator Manuel Capestany was a proposal to confer upon Good Neighbor Roosevelt the title of "Eminent Citizen of America" in honor of his "historical role in the defense of democratic principles." For Cuba's Fourth there were fireworks, concerts, a banquet for U.S. Ambassador J. Butler Wright, a parade and a National...
...first time in Cuban history military men watched over the polling places. Boastfully proud of his army and contemptuous of Cuban politicians, Batista called this election "the fairest and most honorable in the republic's history." Cuba's much-bossed President, Federico Laredo Bru, who has long been expected to announce his resignation after this election, kept mum last week about himself, but made a possibly ironic speech of "thanks" to citizens of Santiago for their "demonstrative" greeting to his "representative," Batista, on the occasion of a grand fiesta celebrating the 43rd anniversary of the beginning of Cuba...