CUBA: Interference

Noisy, arrogant Colonel Fulgencio Batista, Cuba's would-be Dictator who lately rallied 100,000 Cuban peasants to his side with the highly original slogan of a "9% sugar tax to educate Cuban children"' (TIME, Dec. 28), was crowing and preening himself last week as never before.

Peasant-Conservative Batista, who has long been set on getting rid of head-in-the-clouds democratic President Miguel Mariano Gomez y Arias, blatantly dragooned the Cuban Senate last week into voting the President out of office. The trumped-up impeachment charge against President Gomez was "interference with legislation.'' though he had done...

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