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...there and fight for Cuban independence. This book is the disarmingly partisan record of how Cuba finally got quit of Spain. His own place in the epic Author Rubens keeps modestly choral: heroes of his tale are Poet Marti, Mulatto General Antonio Macéo, white-bearded, spectacled Máximo Gomez, Cuba herself...
...with the U. S. War of Independence. According to his figures, the Spanish army finally numbered 200,000 regulars, but it could never come to grips with the ragged, badly-armed Cuban guerrillas, whose policy was never to fight a decisive battle but to wear down the enemy. General Gomez once stated his plan of campaign for the rainy season: "I am going to make the Spanish columns move, move constantly; and I count upon my three important allies, June, July and August." The Spanish answer to guerrilla tactics, says Rubens, was atrocities, of which he presents some gruesome photographs...
...Grande made Nogales jump for Asia. Then he did military intelligence work prior to the Sino-Japanese War, cleared out to Alaska in time to save most of his skin. He followed gold down into Nevada, went broke with the boom, rustled cattle along the Mexican border. When President Gomez relieved Castro as dictator of Venezuela, Exile Nogales made tracks for home. He soon fell out with Gomez too, harassed his government with interminable border fights. Failure was just threatening to rob him of military adventure when the World War began. He tried to get in it with the Allies...
...Ronald Squire), the maitre d'hotel and god of Playwright Edouard Bourdet's machine, explains that he is going to walk home, not for the exercise but for a breath of fresh air. By that time the overlong tale of a canny matriarch has palled. Mme Leroy-Gomez (Helen Haye) raises her two elegant sons to prey on women, undergoes many a humorous travail keeping their shoulders to the wheel. One, married to a rich Argentine, almost loses his wife because of an infatuation for a penniless Slav. The other, orchidaceous young Derek Williams (Journey...
...began setting his country to rights. Like an experienced barman, however, President Machado kept an alert eye cocked for a renewal of hostilities, which hotheads had continued to predict during the past fortnight. In Havana, where an expected uprising never materialized, police sat ready in armored cars. Miguel Marano Gomez, onetime Mayor of Havana, who spent the revolutionary period hiding in Havana, waiting for the insurrecto campaign on the eastern end of the island to become a success, escaped from the country, turned up in Manhattan. Peace reigned on the Prado...