CUBA: War for Machado

The members of the Havana Yacht Club, the waiters, cooks and hall porters eyed each other bitterly last week.

"Judas!" they hissed at each other. "Judas!"

The Yacht Club has been a hotbed of anti-Machado intrigue ever since a member of Dictator Machado's Cabinet was snubbed by a Yacht Club member last December and President Gerardo Machado, El Gallo ("The Rooster"), pad locked the clubhouse in retaliation. Fort night ago Julio Cadena's yacht Coral slipped away from the yacht club pier with Cuba's onetime President, bearded Mario Garcia Menocal on board, also Colonel...

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