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Cuba was tense. New President Ramon Grau San Martin, elected last June by an honest vote, used his popular mandate like a machete. He retired many of Cuba's swaggering Army officers, announced he would also eliminate Cuba's cherished botellas (literally, bottles-soft government jobs). Some Cubans were disgruntled, talked of impending revolution. In Havana there were sporadic shootings...
...recaptured Guam, Dr. Ramon Sablan, a keen-faced, 42-year-old native Chamorro, last week was elbow-deep again in his remarkable career. He serves as health officer and sole civilian doctor for the island's 20,000 natives. His head quarters are two thatch-roofed hospitals where he and a dozen nurses, locally-trained, treat the usual spate of tropical diseases and Guam's chief scourges, tuberculosis and trachoma (an eye infection...
...Died. Ramon S. (for nothing) Castillo, 71, Argentina's Conservative President from 1940 until ousted by the June 1943 revolution; after long illness; in Buenos Aires. Slight, sardonic Castillo ("The Fox") became Acting President when failing eye sight forced the late, liberal Roberto Ortiz' retirement. The Fox instituted Argentina's policy of "prudent neutrality." At his wake last week was a yard-high floral wreath inscribed: "From the Japanese Embassy...
...breakdown in negotiations meant that Cuba's President-elect, Dr. Ramon Grau San Martin, must choose between sending back Batista's hagglers or appointing a new mission instructed to accept the U.S. offer. Then he would face the angry sugar-growers...
Declared the great La Prensa in its lead editorial: "The gravest and most regrettable error" of anti-U.S. President Ramon Castillo was his muzzling of the press in December, 1941. It put him out of touch with Argentine public opinion, led to the unfortunate consequences from which the nation still suffered. Now, hoped La Prensa, the misunderstandings which conspired against hemisphere solidarity would disappear as the Argentine press recovered its right to express its opinions...