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Trouble started when the President, impatient with Police Chief Bernardo Garcia, a Pedraza stooge, for not enforcing his decrees against gambling and vice, demanded and got his resignation. He intended to replace him with his friend, Lieut. Colonel Manuel Benitez, but Colonel Pedraza got to the police headquarters first and announced that he was again Chief of Police as well as Commander in Chief of the Army. It was a direct challenge to Batista's authority...
...President placed himself at the head of the Army, suspended constitutional guarantees for 15 days and commanded the Army to take over public utilities. The big guns of Camp Columbia were trained on La Punta fortress. Batista ordered the arrest of Colonel Pedraza and of Lieut. Colonels Gonzalez and Garcia, replaced them. Next morning all the rebels were in custody. To the Army and nation the President declared that it had been necessary to "repress" his Army and Navy chiefs because of their "attitude of sedition," but that "a deep crisis which endangered the stability of the Republic has been...
...himself the de jure as well as de facto boss of Cuba, he persuaded the politically potent Menocal family to renounce its support of Opposition Candidate Dr. Ramon Juan San Martin and swing crucial Havana his way. In return he got behind dapper, high-living 40-year-old Raul Garcia Menocal y Seva in the city elections, hoisted him from Havana's ballrooms and race courses to the mayoralty. Last week came Raul's induction. Immediately he ran into trouble...
TUMBLEWEEDS-Marta Roberts-Putnam ($2.50). This sympathetic study of simple, pious, maternal Concha Garcia subjects her strong spirit to much woe and a strange, alien world of Norteamericanos. By page two the reader suspects that Peón Pedro Garcia will lose his California section-gang job. But by chapter two the reader finds that there is little Steinbeck in this chronicle of adversity: Faith in the Saints supports Mama Garcia in preserving her Pedro's self-respect, her large brood's health and virtue. Pedro lacks Faith, succumbs to relief, gin, a jalopy. So Concha leaves...
First indication that the Government had decided to clean out Nazi agitators, Communist revolutionaries, fomenters of continental unrest and political troublemakers in general came when Secretary of Interior Ignacio Garcia Téllez called a meeting of Mexican publishers and editors to inform them that Mexico's foreign policy was strictly pro-Allies, pro-U. S. To emphasize publicly that his sympathies were with the democracies, President General Lázaro Cardenas sent a telegram to France's President Albert Lebrun expressing the "painful impression" created by the Italian declaration...