Word: mendieta
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...door of the Presidential Palace where, as he arrived, a band on the terrace played "The Star Spangled Banner" and "El himno bayames." Marching inside while the guns of Cabanas Fortress across the bay boomed a 21-gun salute, he received profuse protestations of pleasure from President Carlos Mendieta y Montefur. There was bravery in Ambassador Caffery's walk from the Embassy because he had no certainty that he would reach the palace alive...
...Government made a martyr of Ramon Grau San Martin last January when "garage diplomacy," initiated by U. S. Ambassador Sumner Welles, forced him to end his four-month regime in resignation. The youngish (49) bachelor surgeon moped off to Mexico City and exile. His successor as Provisional President, Carlos Mendieta, has played a smart and liberal game but has not erased the memory of martyred Grau from the minds of Cuba's lower classes. Still practically ungovernable, they believe in Grau. Last week 100,000 of them, students, workmen, Negroes, sailors, swarmed around the docks in Havana Harbor...
...come home to attend to his personal affairs. But: "In the face of the cry of the masses for me to help them solve their problems, I cannot elude my responsibility." He demanded an immediate election for a regular President and Assembly. With that he hit the Mendieta administration on its Achilles heel. Mendieta sacrificed his own chances to be a full-term President by accepting the Provisional Presidency and now he wants a run for his money. Last week he gave Grau's followers, the National Revolutionary Party, permission to celebrate Grau's arrival...
Said President Carlos Mendieta of Cuba, grateful for small favors: "The bonds of friendship have been strengthened by this aid to our sugar industry...
...this was not enough, however, to distract Penate's friends. They kept up their barrage of criticism against Carlos Manuel De La Cruz, the man who had got the key job Penate wanted, the presidency of the Council of State. Penate had .killed himself day after Mendieta appointed De La Cruz. The friends charged the Mendieta Government with veering toward a Fascist dictatorship, charged that De La Cruz had been far too friendly with Tyrant Machado. Finally the echoes of Penate's death forced De La Cruz to hand in his resignation and the political factions again began...