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...refused to accept the student-supported government of President Ramon Grau San Martin, some in undershirts, some in crumpled linen suits but all with thumping big pistols at their waists, were marooned, peeling their own potatoes, running the elevators, making the beds. The guests, including U. S. Ambassador Sumner Welles, had departed. So had the staff, with the exception of two managers who felt a mariner's duty to stick by the ship. The self-promoted sergeants in command of Cuba's army doubled the guards around the hotel, prevented anyone from entering or leaving. They trained...
From Manhattan last week sailed Edward Albright of Gallatin, Tenn. to become Minister to Finland. It was the first trip abroad for this small, grey-haired publisher and editor of the Sumner County (Tenn.) weekly News. This appointment was the only one asked of the President by his good friend and fellow Tennesseean, Secretary of State Hull. Declared Minister Albright: "I'll perhaps do a bit of writing for the paper as the folks in Gallatin and all the countryside sort of know me and would like to know what it seems like abroad...
...other U. S. Ambassadors: Argentina-Alexander Wilbourne Weddell Belgium-Dave Hennen Morris Brazil-Hugh Simons Gibson Cuba-Sumner Welles France-Jesse Isidor Straus Germany-William Edward Dodd Great Britain-Robert Worth Bingham Italy-Breckinridge Long Japan-Joseph Clark Grew Mexico-Josephus Daniels Peru-Fred Morris Dearing Poland-John Clarence Cudahy Spain-Claude Gernade Bowers Turkey-Robert Peet Skinner...
...Sergeant Fulgencio Batista left that meeting in a towering rage, his face dark with blood, surrounded by 24 bodyguards armed with machine-guns. The officers retired to Havana's National Hotel, strategically isolated on a cliff-walled hill. Even more strategic, the National Hotel housed U. S. Ambassador Sumner Welles and Cuba's Financial Adviser Adolf Augustus Berle...
...Cuban Government." With Mr. Berle last week went another financial adviser, John Laylin, special assistant to Under-Secretary of the Treasury Dean Acheson. The two were expected to be back in Washington before Ambassador-designate Jefferson Caffery goes to Havana to take the place of temporary Ambassador Sumner Welles. To show Cuba's good faith President de Cespedes last week earmarked $194,000 for payment of interest and amortization charges on the $50,000,000 loan from the House of Morgan, another $1,200,000 to pay off two of the five coupons in arrears on Cuba...