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...Havana last week there was such tension, such scurrying of Government leaders to U. S. Ambassador Jefferson Caffery, the arbiter of every Cuban crisis, as there has not been since the collapse of Provisional President Dr. Ramon Grau San Martin's Government (TIME, Jan. 22, 19-34). This pother seemed to be preparation for a showdown between Cuba's military and Cuba's politicians. Real Strong Man of the Army is ruthless Lieut. Colonel Inspector José Pedraza Calvera, but the military's mouthpiece is Colonel Fulgencio Batista who likes to play at being a dictator...
SEVEN RED SUNDAYS-Ramon J. Sender -Liveright ($2.50). Wild and powerful novel of the Spanish revolutionary movement, by a young novelist who has come to be regarded as one of the most promising in Spain, and who dedicates his book to the anarchosyndicalists, "dreaming of a strange state of society in which all men are as disinterested as St. Francis of Assisi, bold as Spartacus, and able as Newton and Hegel...
...ammunition on rifle practice? Our Militia gets all its shooting practice at the front!" Franco and Mola, Soldiers of professional standing and technical proficiency are the leaders of the Revolution: short, stoutish, dynamic General Francisco Franco, Arabic-speaking onetime Commander of the Spanish Foreign Legion in Morocco whose brother Ramon is "The Spanish Lindbergh";* and slim, tortoise-spectacled, tenacious General Emilio Mola, the Cuban-born son of a captain in the traditionally non-partisan Civil Guard...
...with his Guard of Honor, pushed loyal National Guardsmen to Fort Acosasco in Leon. Next day the National Guard assaulted the Presidential Palace in force, were repulsed with two dead, 16 wounded. Meanwhile National Guard artillery pounded away at Fort Acosasco, commanded by the President's kinsman, Major Ramon Sacasa...
Some U. S. surgeons can graft windows into damaged eyes just as effectively as Professor V. P. Filatov of Odessa, who last week told the U. S. Press that he does. Thus Columbia Medical Center's Dr. Ramon Castroviejo has successfully grafted the cornea of a stillborn infant upon the opaque eye of a grown man (TIME, April 15, 1935). But, by publishing in plain language an exposition of his surgery, Dr. Filatov, famed scientist of the U. S. S. R., violated the mores of U. S. ophthalmologists. On the other hand ordinary U. S. doctors learned...