Word: havana
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...France were Cipriano Rivas Cherif, brilliant dramatist, lawyer, diplomat; Julián Zugazagoitia, Basque firebrand, deputy, editor, historian, Minister of the Interior in the last Republican Government; Antonio Cruz Salido, onetime Secretary of the Spanish Socialist Party; Carlos Montilla y Escudero, onetime Director of Spanish Railways, Loyalist Counselor in Havana; Miguel Salvador y Carreras, famed music critic, co-founder of the Madrid Philharmonic Society, Loyalist Chargé d'Affaires in Copenhagen. Over their bodies, the Spain of Franco aspires to a "prominent place over the ruins of Europe...
...Inauguration Day a thick drizzle fell on Havana's gold-domed Presidential Palace, but in its Salon of Mirrors Cuba's pomp watched the island's de facto boss become its de jure leader. Outside, wet thousands gathered in Misiones Park, with bands blaring, cheered a balcony appearance by the newly sworn President. Same day, President Batista issued a manifesto to the press:"It is true that the revolutionary cycle has ended. I wish to be good and to be loved by my people. I have no triumph. It is an ideal that has triumphed-the ideal...
...Denied, through Steve Early, Argentine reports that he had told Dr. Leopoldo Melo, chairman of the Argentine delegation to the Pan-American conference in Havana, that the U. S. would lift the ban on Argentine meats after the election...
General Almazán was obviously getting ready to push the shaky civil peace a notch closer to open war. Ever since election day he had left his followers dangling and disorganized while he "vacationed" in Havana, then in Guatemala. Fortnight ago he was still on tour, turned up in Mobile, two days later in Baltimore, where he took a modest apartment on quiet 32nd Street with his wife and 17-year-old daughter. He insisted that he was just a tourist. He visited friends, walked in Wyman Park, went to the movies, read U. S. and Mexican newspapers, answered...
Claimant Almazán, "vacationing" in Havana since the election, announced in a broadcast that he would return to Mexico when the time was ripe for assuming the Presidency. Then he embarked for Guatemala where, his followers announced, he would set up revolutionary headquarters in "an anti-Communist atmosphere." There he was also certain of the good will of Napoleonesque President-Dictator Jorge Ubico, who once bragged that with 300,000 trained troops he could invade and conquer the whole of sprawling Mexico. No friend of the Cardenas regime, Dictator Ubico has treated Mexican labor agitators to firing squads...