The Washington times., 1933-09-08
REVOLT LEADER
FLIES IN RAGE
. At PARLEY
Aristocrats Refusing to Serve
Under Enlisted Man Com
pIicate Situation
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day, plunging Cuba into conflict
with q powerful neighboring ma
ton, the executive council Of five
strove to sweep personal issues
aside and called in the chieftains
Of the 10 leading revolutionary
groups in an effort to reach an
amicable accord.
These the ruling five named as
an advisory commission" to aid
In solution of Cuban problems.
Indications we're that before the
day Is out they will have decided
among them on a single leader
capable of ruling as President and
Of satisfying President Roosevelt
as to Cuba's peaceful intentions.
Revolt Leader in Rage
For eight hours, while q rest.
less populace packed the cobbled
streets Of the square facing the
$2O,000,000 Presidential Palace
under the watchful eyes Of
crack company of the revolution
ary army, the executive council
and its newly appointed advisory
group fought over Cuba's prob
lens in the presidential chambers.
At the same time another battle
ragged in the ornate white and
gold ballroom as a committee of
officers deprived of their ranks
when the De Cespedes govern
ment was overthrown, baked at
the revolutionary army's demands
that Sergt. Fulgencio Batista,
chief of the armed forces in the
provisional junta, be named chief
Of staff under whatever new gov
ernment might be formed.
The officers, mostly from the
Cuban aristocracy. many of them
educated at the United States
Military Academy at West Point,
resent a member of the rank and
file being retained in ranking
command.
Batista, a short, powerfully
built fighting man with broad,
dark features and short black
hair, left the meeting surrounded
by "a bodyguards armed with
submachine guns and automatic
rifles in a towering rage as the
officers stood their ground.
Gilt Louis XVI chairs were
swept together into a semi-circle
on the black and white inlaid
marble floor Of the presidential
quarters as the junta and party
leaders fought out the issue until
4:30 a. m.
They finally gave Sergio Carbo,
the outstanding member Of the
council of five, a vote Of con-
fidence, and agreed to accept any
decision he might offer.
Conference Deadlocked
A few minutes earlier, Ramon
Grau San Martin, a. member of
the dictatorship quintet and presi'
dent of the University Of Havana,
intellectual hot-bed of revolution
ary movement. closed by former
President Gerardo Machado two
years before he was ousted,
emerged from the presidential
chamber and announced the con-
ference was unable to reach an
agreement.
The meeting was adjourned for
several hours. The conferees, In"
ternational News Service learned,
were deadlocked on the issue of
deciding whether to maintain the
present dictatorship Of five and
seek immediate American recog-
milton or whether to establish
new government with a provi-
sional president certain to be re-
ceived cordially by Washington.
One other alternative was con-
sidered-that of ignoring the
United States completely and op-
posing intervention with bullets.
Plan Discussed
A new government plan, drawn
by a united Cuba" unani-
mously opposing American inter"
vention, was revealed to Inter
national News Service on high
authority. It contained the fol-
lowing points:
i. All of the 900 officers de-
prived of their rank in Tues
days coup d'etat will be re.
stored to command.
2. The new council Of fifteen
the junta and the ten party
delegates-Will rule until the
new government Is organized.
3. Great effort will be made
to organize the new government
and bid for American recogni-
ton before the American Secre-
tary of the Navy, Claude A.
Swanson, arrives On the cruiser
Indianapolis, expected in Ha-
vana this afternoon.
Among the ten leaders aiding
the junta in the new set-up
were two women.
While crack mounted troops of
the revolutionary army formed
ranks outside the presidential
palace. holding back crowds of
anxious citizens, machine guns
were trained on all approaches
to the rooms where the provi-
sional dictatorship of five met
with leaders of the opposing ele-
mentS, whom they had called in
an effort to ride out the crisis.
Those at Farley
Sitting in the parley were rep
resentatives of nearly all Of the
elements which had brought
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