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...government. There is order without law because the Cubans are a friendly people. . . . The situation in Cuba is a kind of passive anarchy." Far from passive last week was General Menocal's onetime subordinate, Captain Juan Bias Hernandez, veteran of the abortive 1931 Menocal Revolution against Tyrant Machado. With his wide sombrero cocked jauntily, swaggering Captain Bias was fighting Government troops and recruiting fighters of his own in Camaguey province. Last week he captured several towns-one named Moron-and beat his way steadily toward Havana. Terrified President Grau alternately threatened Bushwhacker Bias and parleyed with...
...Provisional President Carlos Manuel de Cespedes worked like a nailer to entrench his new Government (TIME, Aug. 21). Most of Havana was gay and businesslike again, even though shots were heard every few hours as long-oppressed Cubans continued their man hunt to kill every member of ousted Tyrant Machado's detested terrorist squads, the Porra, blamed by all Cuba for countless political murders and ghastly torture of prisoners. Meanwhile the big white Cuban problem which most worried Provisional President de Cespedes, U.S. Ambassador Welles and President Roosevelt was-and seems likely to remain-sugar...
...crested Thomas Lincoln Chadbourne put through the International Agreement ("Chadbourne Plan"), running from 1930 to 1935, by which its signatories-Cuba. Java and the European beet sugar bloc (Germany, Czechoslovakia, Poland, Hungary, Belgium, Jugoslavia)-hoped to win a profitable price for sugar by heroic sacrifices in production. Cuba under Tyrant Machado made the greatest sacrifice, cut her production by 60%, but the ensuing rise in sugar prices did not begin to compensate. Cuba's future appeared to hang on negotiations into which Ambassador Welles plunged last week, to permit enough Cuban sugar to enter the U.S. at "Roosevelt prices...
...terror of a brutal massacre, was the capital of Cuba last week. Eight years of steadily increased repression had culminated in an ominous, apprehensive silence. The shutters and doors of Havana were bolted, the streets deserted save for soldiers patrolling and police squads riding around in cars. "The Tyrant," paunchy, pock-faced President Gerardo Machado y Morales, had proclaimed "a state of war" in his effort to break his countrymen's general strike against his regime. It had spread throughout the island in all businesses and professions (TIME, Aug. 14). Food was hard to get. The capital was more...
...United States may exercise the right to intervene for the preservation of Cuban independence" or for "the maintenance of a Government adequate for the protection of life, property and individual liberty" in Cuba. Written originally as fire insurance, this amendment became two-edged. In the hands of a tyrant it could be brandished as a weapon and up to last week attempts to overthrow corrupt Cuban Presidents had uniformly failed...