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Belgium's exiled King Leopold III stepped off a chartered Dutch freighter at Havana with his beauteous commoner wife, the Princess de Rethy, his begoggled son, Prince Baudouin, and 40 pieces of baggage. Cuba's Major General Genovevo Perez Damera and a battery of cameramen gave the party a royal welcome (see cut). The Hotel Nacional apologetically provided the best in the house-a mere presidential suite, but free. Cuban Sugaristocrat José Goméz Meña threw a great big garden party. After two weeks of "recreation and study" (the Princess raised some eyebrows...
...minutes the radio had spread the news through Cuba. Next morning, a dozen top government officials and almost all newspapers denounced the shooting. But Army Chief Genovevo Pérez Dàmera was unimpressed. Said he: "The Army is proud of the action by Captain Casillas, who repelled aggression. We hope all members of the armed forces will conduct themselves in the same manner." President Ramón Grau San Martín kept quiet, but Genovevo had seen him before he made his statement...
...venture, walked bent and glum between his guards. Hard-boiled Rolando Masferrer, one of his Cuban lieutenants, who had not wanted to turn back even under Cuban Navy guns, was asked to say a few words for the radio. He grabbed the mike, cursed Cuban Army Chief Genovevo Pérez Dámera as a traitor. When told to mind his words, he slugged the announcer with the mike. Angel Morales, chief of the Dominican exiles, blamed the failure on "destiny," vowed that the fight would...
...success, the expedition also got too much advance publicity. Then Trujillo threatened to protest to the U.N., and the U.S. State Department passed the word that it was against the whole scheme. Finally, Cuban Army Boss Genovevo, who had opposed the filibuster from the start, seized much of the expedition's arsenal on Education Minister Alemán's estate near Havana. Grau's hand was forced (TIME, Oct. 6). The Army and Navy went to work, and the invasion...
...later, Tro and three supporters were dead. So was the pregnant wife of the house owner. Another man died later of wounds. A ten-month-old baby and eleven others were wounded. The shooting had lasted long enough for a movie cameraman to record it in detail. Army Chief Genovevo Perez Damera saw the film, denounced the affair as a "monstrous assassination." He ordered Salabarria and several of his followers charged with murder and began a general roundup of Salabarria partisans...