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...Havana, Boss Fulgencio Batista announced the upshot of his last month's trip to the U. S. : a new U. S.-Cuba trade treaty, with concessions to Cuban sugar, tobacco, potatoes and rum in return for concessions to Louisiana rice and other products...
...President last week: opened the annual American Red Cross Drive ("We must all do our part"); greeted the American Philatelic Society, convening in Hartford, Conn. ("It is a hobby that pays rich returns. . . ."); attended Armistice Day ceremonies in Arlington National Cemetery; received and charm-bathed Cuba's Dictator Fulgencio Batista wrote to C. I. O in Pittsburgh plugging peace with A.F. of L. "in the interest of all Americans...
Dictator. Franklin Roosevelt five years ago sent aristocratic Ambassador Sumner Welles to pluck Cuba from under the heel of bloody President Gerardo ("The Butcher") Machado. That chunky brown soldier, Fulgencio Batista y Zaldivar, organized a revolt against Ambassador Welles's dummy President Carlos Manuel de Cespedes, made himself Cuba's army chief and proceeded to set up and knock down presidents of his own in a way that has made Dictator Machado look almost constitutional...
...Colonel Fulgencio Batista, Chief of Staff of Cuba's Army and the island's proletarian dictator. Officially the guest of Chief of Staff Malin Craig for Armistice Day ceremonies, Dictator Batista, though only informally the head of his State, is to exchange amenities at the White House with President Roosevelt. Likely topics of conversation for Colonel Batista in Washington: Who would make a mutually agreeable next puppet-President of Cuba? What about another U. S. naval base in Cuba, like the one now leased at Guantanamo...
Like all capable dictators, Cuba's strong man, Colonel Fulgencio Batista, shows much concern over the common people. Although he holds no elective office, benevolent Tyrant Batista often leaves the studied luxuries of Havana and, like Mexico's Lázaro Cárdenas, gets firsthand impressions in the decidedly less comfortable interior. Cuba's economic pains, including unemployment, have been only partly cured by the U. S. Good Neighbor policy which reduced the U. S. tariff on the island's big product, sugar. Last week, Colonel Batista moved to help Cuba's unemployed...