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China's is the only Government which cheerfully and publicly buys off its political foes, generally with much heroic haggling. Last week a glorious bargain was finally struck by agents of the shrill little Chinese Generalissimo, wasp-waisted Chiang Kaishek. To get this most vital haggle started the agents had to go to British Hongkong and blandish their way into a strongly built house protected by elaborate iron gratings and guarded day and night by heavily armed Sikh police from India...
Holding most of Cuba's guns, little Generalissimo Fulgencio Batista last week went President-making. So unimpressed was this quarter white, quarter black, quarter Chinese, quarter Indian by the politicos' choice early last week of Carlos Hevia y Reyes Gavilan that he cut off Cabana Fortress' 21-gun salute to the New President at the count of nine. Gently he began to move his troops into Havana, to police stations, doorways, roofs. His chief opponent, ex-President Grau's ubiquitous Secretary of War, Navy and Interior Antonio Guiteras, a onetime pharmacist who had somehow got Cuba...
...suddenly Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek's party when 40 members of the Nationalist Central Executive Committee arrived in Nanking last week for their fourth congress. A month ago, with six revolts crackling under him, Chiang looked like a heavy loser. Picking the key revolt, he cracked down hard on the Fukien rebels headed by smart Trinidad-born Eugene Chen and General Tsai Ting-kai's famed 19th Route Army. His marines marched into Foochow, the rebel capital, almost unopposed because the veterans of the 19th Route Army who stood off Japan in the Battle of Shanghai have been...
Some Chinese said that Generalissimo Chiang had paid the 19th Route Army 6,000,000 Mexican silver dollars to retreat. But nobody claimed that the Nationalist executive session could do much but listen to Victor Chiang's "plans for the coming year...
...investors, that President Roosevelt's personal representative in Havana, hard, able Mr. Jefferson Caffery, put through a little "garage diplomacy."* Mr. Caffery had not been idle. Shifting from President Grau, on whom he first used suasion, he conferred repeatedly last week with Cuba's bantam generalissimo, ex-Sergeant Fulgencio Batista who commands the entire army with the modest rank of Colonel. According to correspondents, "Caffery read the riot act to Batista." Out to the army post at Camp Columbia hurried Batista and most of Cuba's politicos, excepting Surgeon Grau who shut himself up in the Presidential...