The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-05-26
GUBA'S PLIGHT
STIRS ANXIETY;
REVOLT FEARED
United States Blamed for
Want, Misery, Tyranny
Found on Island.
BY WILLIAM PHILIP sDTMs
srriuus- Howard Foreirn Editor

WASHINGTON. May IS - The
PLIGHT of CUBA. virtually q ward Of
the United States is causing in
creaanq anxiety here A major
crisis In the little republic across
the straits Of Florida seems
inevitable
Extensive and elaborate plans TO
overthrow President Machado, or
perhaps even assae inate him and
other high Cuban officials. just have
been frustrated bv Havana police. %
Is said but Tho situation remains
extremely tense. tv-thstandnr
Hundreds n arrests have been
made hv the secret police and are
continuing. according TO reports
reaching tho capital Among those
arrested arc Colonel Carlos Men
dietfa and Colonel Roberto Mendez
Penate leaders of the Machado OPP
position. Who. last August, LED an
Unsuccessful revolution.
Search for Ex-President
2 search is under way. IL is re-
ported. for former President Memo
cal. for whom q warrant has been
Issued Revolutionary headquar-
tersr were raided IN Havana over
the weekend. but. despite the po-
lice. bombs are exploding ~ the
rate of about 2 dozen a day. though
with slight damage
A Havana report is that Prcsi-
dent Machado soon win resign In
favor Of DIT. Orestes Ferrera. am
bassador 70 Washington who re-
Gently resigned TO become Cuban
secretary Of state
Or. Ferrera is regarded as one OF
the strongest men in the island,
though neither p spaniard nor
Cuban born. An Italian by birth
and 2 revolutionary IN his youth.
he went % The West Indies 10 fight
tor Cuban independence from
Spain.
II will take a superman, however,
~ rescue Cuba from her predics-
ment. Economically. financially.
and politically she is pictured as
close n the end Of her string
while her half-starved masses are
kept from armed revolt only by pow
erfv. lack Of wca pons. and the pres
ence Of 2 powerful well-equipped
army rrimlv sitting on tho lid.
United states Blamed
For most Of their difficulties the
Cubsns bitterly blame the United
States. Rightly or wrongly, they
assert that the two principal
treaties governing relations between
their country and this have wrecked
them economically and financially
and doomed them politically TO a
dictatorship whose rule is worse
than that Of Spain.
The treaties are the treaty OF
reciprocity. under which each coun-
try grants the other tariff conces-
sions on all products OF the soil and
industry. and the so-called "perma-
nent treaty. or Plat amendment.
This gives the United States the
right to intervene for the preserva-
ton Of Cuban independence and to
maintain q government capable of
protecting life. property and individ-
ual liberty"
Under the reciprocity treaty.
Cubans accuse. Cuba was led 10 be-
come a one-crop country. Encour-
aged by the United States. she
ceased TO engage in general aericul-
ture and planted only sugar. Though
a tropical country. capable of grow
ing anything. she docs not raise
even her own food. a large part Of
which she imports from the states.
Bankruptcy Is Faced
When sugar is booming. Cuba is
prosperous. Now that sugar is
drug on the market. and has been
for years, she faces bankruptcy.
Many of her people would stsrve
were it not for minimum doles from
the big sugar-centrsls.
To make bad matters worse after
making one-crop country of her
the United States increased its tariff
on sugar.
Under the Platt amendment, Gu
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