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...master cook. Only one ingredient in the pot suited every taste and that was proud resistance to U. S. intervention. The Sergeants. There were the Army's non-commissioned officers, on a spree. They had seen last month how neatly their superior officers led by Col. Horacio Ferrer had pushed over the Machado government. For three weeks they had whispered out of the corners of their mouths to the enlisted men that many of the officers were still loyal to Machado, that Provisional President de Cespedes planned to cut the Army's numbers and pay. Last week...
...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 in a towering rage, his face dark with blood, surrounded by 24 bodyguards armed with machine-guns. The officers retired to Havana's National Hotel, strategically isolated on a cliff-walled hill. Even...
Hurricane and revolt again struck Cuba last week. Provisional President Carlos Manuel de Cespedes had left Havana for Sagua la Grande in north central Cuba to survey the storm damage and relief measures (see p. 18). Locum tenens at Havana was Col. Horacio' Ferrer, onetime Army surgeon and oculist who last month refused the Army's nomination as Provi- sional President. Early in the week, to deal with the restless Army, President de Cespedes made Col. Ferrer Secretary of War. Secretary Ferrer promptly barked : "The natural orgy that followed Machado's overthrow is over. The troops henceforth...
Secretary of War Ferrer hastened to Army general staff headquarters at Castillo de la Fuerza. The enlisted men in command there listened to his pleas to "observe discipline," sent him home downcast...
...Santiago (Chile), Dr. Carlos Charlin; Guayaquil, Dr. Juan F. Rubio; Mexico City, Drs. Rafael Silva, Juan Luis Torroella; Havana, Drs. Francisco Maria Fernandez, Horacio Ferrer...