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Provisional President Manuel Urrutia immediately announced his choice of Castro for the premiership. That job normally means head of government under the president, who is chief of state. Castro replaces Prime Minister Jose Miro Cardona...
...Urrutia kidding when he says the captives will be tried "in the same manner as war criminals were tried in Germany?" The Nurnberg tribunal condemned twelve Germans to hang. Now Castro's regime is slaughtering hundreds...
Snarled Government. While Castro was concentrating his energies on vengeance, government business got badly snarled. At the presidential palace, crowds of job-seekers and well-wishers milled about; their weapons had been methodically checked at the door with numbered metal tags. Devoid of political experience, President Manuel Urrutia, onetime judge, kept the Cabinet in all-night sessions, quibbling over petty details. "He might make a President in normal times," said one of his own assistants, "but these are not normal times." The treasury was still running on a hand-to-mouth basis, collecting $2,500,000 a day in taxes...
...recent rapid recognition by the United States of the infant Cuban government of Manuel Urrutia gives rise to an interesting if hypothetical problem...
Given this situation, would the United States have recognized Urrutia's government? If not, how would the Administration have justified the support of a dictator who obviously lacked the support of his countrymen? If recognition had been extended, what would have been the essential difference between this situation and a similar one now in effect in the East China Sea? James R. Fisher...