Word: fraga
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When Ambassador Pedro Martinez Fraga squired him to the White House. Boss Batista tactfully changed his uniform and spurs for a sporty grey suit and blue fedora. Franklin Roosevelt talked to him half an hour about Cuba. Afterward, Batista bubbled: "I was able to ascertain the enormous goodness in the President's character...
...toward Lérida, "the Key to Barcelona," found themselves briefly balked at the Cinca River. The People's Army had blown up all bridges for 50 miles along the Cinca to cover their retreat. Wading chest deep through the icy waters, the 60,000 Rightists crossed at Fraga, which had just been reduced to shambles by 160 Rightist bombers. Pontoon bridges were then flung over the Cinca, the motorized units roared across, resumed their role as the steel spearhead...
...finished he unexpectedly dismissed the press, asked that the microphones before him be deadened, and in a suspenseful silence gave a confidential extempore talk which every delegate present was soon itching to get onto a cable. Particularly itchy was Cuba's brand-new Ambassador Pedro Martínez Fraga, for the substance of Good Neighbor Roosevelt's remarks was that he would under no circumstances be prevailed upon to intervene in the affairs of Cuba...
...first time had Dr. Martinez Fraga thus combined scholarship with diplomacy. In 1919. year before he got his doctorate in civil and public law from the University of Havana, he was attache of the Cuban delegation to the Peace Conference at Versailles. He worked up to Cuba's No. 1 diplomatic post by way of service at the 1928 Pan-American Conference, in the Cuban House of Representatives from 1931 to 1933, and as Minister successively to Belgium, The Netherlands, Great Britain...
...personable, 38-year-old bachelor who keeps trim by riding and fencing, Ambassador Martinez Fraga is sure of gratifying attention from Washington debutantes. Aside from striving to preserve and perhaps to better Cuba's favorable sugar export status against the attacks of U. S. refiners, he can rest his diplomatic worries largely on the "generous and cordial co-operation lent by Your Excellency" for which he thanked Good Neighbor Franklin Roosevelt last week...