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Three hours before it was time for the Mendieta speech over COCO 16 men with submachine guns and pistols shot the radio tubes and equipment of station CMQ to blazes for a $40,000 loss. At about the same time Nicolas Castano Padilla, 66-year-old Havana banker, importer, sugar mill owner and lumberman, was kidnapped and held for $300,000 ransom. At once 4,500 Cuban police and soldiers and 300 secret service agents were let loose upon Havana to catch the kidnappers, and amid seething turmoil the opposition demanded for perhaps the dozenth time that President Mendieta resign...
...State Department has been irate ever since the munitions inquiry began in September over the disclosures of graft paid to foreign officials: "Commissions" to the head of the Nicaraguan National Guard with the knowledge of President Sacasa; "presents" to General Padilla, Guatemalan Minister of War, to permit the importation of "sporting" guns; to a Mexican general "to make his life more pleasant" to a citizen of Honduras who "always gets permits because he advances money to public officials including the President himself" a 4% commission to Chinese officials on a Chinese powder purchase. This a du Pont official admitted...
...Italy a boycott movement was started against U. S. cotton. Don Alejandro Padilla y Bell, Spanish Ambassador to the U. S., publicly complained that his country would be hardest hit by the new tariff, cited the fact that out of 81% exports to the U. S., the duty on 42 of them would be upped, including cork, olives, onions, almonds, peppers and imitation pearls. Swiss watchmakers posted throughout their country such notices as: "ONE FOR ALL. ALL FOR ONE. ... We ask all manufacturers, craftsmen, merchants and consumers to banish ... all merchandise of U. S. origin...
Decorated. Lucrezia Bori, Spanish soprano at Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera House; with the Royal Order of Isabella la Catolica; by Don Alejandro Padilla y Bell, Spanish Ambassador to the U. S.; for services to art. Last year she was given the order of Alfonso XII, conferred also for artistic distinction...
...Ferrara, Germany's Von Prittwitz und Gaffron, Hungary's Count Szechenyi, France's Paul Claudel. Less smart, but kept quite busy, are Austria's Prochnik, Italy's de Martino, Japan's Debuchi,* Mexico's Telles, Spain's Padilla y Bell. After them, courted by hostesses on their way up or down, come the Balkan and Latin-American diplomats...