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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...
...work." Few hours later the ballroom squabblers picked as Cuba's new President a graduate of the U. S. Naval Academy at Annapolis, smart, trim Carlos He via who had been Secretary of Agriculture under President Grau. Whether or not Cubans will accept an "Annapolis President," Senor Hevia's choice caused eyebrows to lift throughout Latin America, created an unfortunate im pression that Mr. Caffery is Cuba's puppeteer. He was said to be displeased with the Annapolis graduate, considering him too radical despite the U. S. discipline...
...uncertainty which has characterized Cuban political alignments since the fall of Machado has apparently at last been dispelled. The final attempt at compromise was the elevation of Hevia to the presidency; affairs, however, have developed with such rapidity that compromise has become impossible and the two parties have been forced out in the open, thus clearly defining both the issue at stake, and the adherents on each side. On one side are the conservatives comprising the Nationalist party and the military forces controlled by Colonel Batista; arrayed against them is the Revolutionary junta which engineered the revolt against Machado...
...compromise presidency of Hevia failed when Guiteras, Secretary of War and Interior in the Grau San Martin cabinet, announced that the radical steps which he supported must be carried out and that his arch-enemy, Colonel Batista, must resign. In order to accomplish this, at his instigation the employees of the Cuban utilities trust went on strike and the government was forced to take over the company; yesterday morning all employees in the departments of Communications, Interior, Justice, Public Works, Instruction, and Health went on strike. Senor Guiteras then retired into his stronghold in the provinces. With the gauntlet thus...
...official who neither marched with the White Guard nor reviewed them from the Presidential Palace was Premier and Minister of the Interior Horacio Hevia. Possibly with an eye on the Presidency himself, he resigned in protest at the parade...