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...exemption for two years. Scratch, scratch, scratch-the President's pen flew over other decrees of a "Cuba for the Cubans" tone. Already approved was an estoppment by the Cuban Treasury of interest on some $60,000,000 lent by U. S. banks to the ousted regime of Tyrant Gerardo Machado. Last month President Grau signed a decree ordering the Cuban Electric Co., subsidiary of Electric Bond & Share, to cut its rates 30%, a decree of nation-wide importance since Cuban Electric supplies power and light to 207 Cuban cities and towns. Up to last week the companies...
...would default on these obligations "until such time as the whole situation can be thoroughly discussed ... to determine which part if any [of the obligations] is legal." He declared that the $62,000,000 principal of the loans was secured by special taxes from which the regime of ousted Tyrant Machado collected $120,000,000. From this Secretary Despaigne drew the conclusion: "Figures don't lie and therefore the Cuban people have paid their debt over & over again...
Last September Capt. Juan Blas Hernandez, a bowlegged old bushwhacker who fought Tyrant Machado for years and had started a lively little campaign against the Grau Government, suddenly appeared in Havana, publicly embracing not only President Grau but also swart "Emperor" Fulgencio Batista, the onetime Sergeant who led the Army's revolt against its officers, and to the world's surprise has maintained control of the Army ever since...
Well, let us go for a moment to St. Augustine's treatise on the City of God, v. 19, where the deity, in all wisdom, says, "Per me reges regnant et tyranni per me tenent terram," "through me kings rule and tyrants hold their power." Later, in the Sententiae of St. Isidore of Seville, iii 48, we find a long explanation of the sanctions of the tyrant's rule centering around a dictum of the Prophet Hosea "I shall give them a king in my wrath." Gregory the Great, in his commentary on the Book of Job, insists that...
President Ramon Grau's Government was shaking last week with symptoms much like those that broke out in the closing days of hated tyrant Machado's regime. Detonating bombs boomed through the land, railroad tracks were being blown up, soldiers were shooting striking workers. Finally the National Labor Confederation called a great general strike throughout Cuba, to last two days in Havana, three days in the interior, with the possibility of indefinite extension. Admitting his Government's shakiness, President Grau tried to pass the blame for Cuba's woes to President Roosevelt. Groused he, "Nonrecognition...