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...crossed in six hours. Day before he had been the first President ever to set foot in South American soil, the first to address the nation by radio from a foreign state. The last two "firsts" were recorded at Cartagena where he and Colombia's President Enrique Olaya Herrera greeted each other. After mutual professions of esteem and goodwill, the two Presidents took a drive about the 400-year-old capital of the Spanish Main. A point of interest was the old fort over the harbor. President Roosevelt could claim no direct connection with it by kin, but he recalled...
...trouble has been that the Peruvian Government, while not overanxious to keep the ravished province, found the rape excessively popular in Peru and for months did not know how to let Leticia go without shame to Peru's virile Latin "honor." Only the vast tact of President Olaya Herrera of Colombia and General Vasquez Cobo whom he sent to overawe the Peruvians in Leticia, made a settlement without undue bloodshed possible. Swamp fever did most of the killing. Tall, patient President Olaya Herrera and short, jovial General Vasquez Cobo embraced enthusiastically as the diplomatic squabble ended in a virtuous...
...Palace, despite the menace of the guns, President Machado could not believe that his Army & Navy-well paid while other Cuban Government employes have gone unpaid for months-had turned against him. He ordered his car, ordered War Minister Herrera into it, set off guarded by a machine gun squad to talk to the rebellious officers, who had gathered outside Havana at Camp Columbia. Promises, threats and a storm of rage from President Machado produced no result. The officers stood sullen until finally Lieut.-Colonel Julio Sanguilly, Chief of Aviation at Camp Columbia, spoke: "With all respect, General Machado...
...Carrara marble, decorated by Manhattan's Tiffany Studios. The guns did not fire, but soon Castillo de la Real Fuerza and all other Havana garrisons aimed their guns at the Palace's dome of yellow glazed tile. Subordinate officers told sly, grandfatherly little War Minister General Alberto Herrera that he must tell President Machado to resign. When the War Minister refused he was arrested, forced to promise "on my word of honor as a Cuban, an officer and a gentleman" that he would beard the President...
Meanwhile in Havana the Congress, closely guarded by 300 soldiers, had accepted from War Minister Herrera resignations signed by Sr. Machado and other members of his Cabinet which had the effect of making General Herrera for about 30 minutes the Provisional President. Not acceptable to Ambassador Welles or to the Cuban army officers who had staged the coup d'état, General Herrera waited only for Congress to rush through a bill permitting him to hand the Provisional Presidency over to a "civilian neutral" and retired Cuban diplomat, quiet, scholarly, short-statured Carlos Manuel de Cespedes (pronounced "Sess...