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...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-pay-dess...
Aristocratic Dr. Cespedes will serve only as a stop-gap President. The regular Cuban Presidential election is scheduled for next year. His name is popular in Cuba because his father, also Carlos Manuel de Cespedes, headed a brief revolutionary regime in 1868 (30 years before the U. S. helped Cuba to win independence from Spain) and has been called "the Cuban George Washington." His family were forced to flee Cuba after the revolt and Dr. Cespedes was born in New York just 62 years ago last week. Popular in Washington from 1914 to 1922 as Minister of Cuba, he knew...
...during a sweltering summer Spaniards dodge fights. The Foreign Office referred Ambassador Bowers to the War Office, remarking that so much as to threaten a member of Spain's famed Guardia Civil is a serious military crime. The War Office balked Mr. Bowers by stating that War Minister Manuel Azana (who is also Premier of Spain) was on vacation, and that that was that. In Washington, after receiving cabled reports, U. S. Acting Secretary of State William Phillips called in Spanish Ambassador Juan Francisco de Cardenas, asked him pleasantly to bring pressure for the five's release...
...forbid foreclosures temporarily. Bills to inflate the national currency have several times been before Congress. In this emergency last week President Justo temporized, unwilling to appoint either an inflationist or an anti-inflationist as Finance Minister. He turned the office over to a virtual caretaker, Minister of Justice & Education Manuel de Iriondo, making him Finance Minister ad interim. To test public opinion the President announced that Argentina will continue to follow the policy of "No moratorium, no waste and no inflation!" That this policy is President Justo's own no Argentine doubted, but he was believed to be weakening...
...greatly to the credit of the Government of roly poly Manuel Ozana, just restored to power on the issue of Spain's new church laws, for anti-church sentiment to be as marked as possible. After noon when the enthusiasm of the young cutups began to wane, Republican police were suddenly ordered out to take down all Sacred Heart banners "to avert further rioting." Only one defender of the faith was discovered. As a shouting crowd swept along the Gran Via. a man suddenly arose from a cafe table crying "Viva Cristo Key! Long Live Christ the King...