Evening star., 1933-11-09
War in Cuba.

GVenUS IN havana ana the adjacent
provinces have plunged Cuba during
the past twenty-fuur hours into the
graVest disorder since the turmoil that
| ended in the overthrow of the Machadc
regime three months ago. Rebellious
| forces composed of dissatisfied soldiers
police and the revolutionary A. B. c.
element carried out concerted attack
against the Grau San Martin govern
ment, and although the revolt was
partially suppressed under the ener-
getic direction of Col Fulgencio Batista,
leader OF the famed "sergeants' up-
rising" In September, conditions remain
SO serious that President Grau San
Martin has proclaimed a state of war
throughout the island and the immedi-
ATE course Of events henceforward is
wholly unpredictable. The rebel eroups
appear still to hold couple of fortresses
seized in yesterdays pitched battle,
which at various stages found airpIanes.
gunboats and artillery engaged. and.
before lighting ceased. had rolled I'D a
casualty list Of more than fifty killed
ana nearly two hundred wounded.
Inc outstanding aspect Of this latest
nare-up of unending turbulence in Cuba
Is That the soldier-student government
headed by DR.. Grau San Martin quite
OBVIOUSLY does not yet command any,
thing remotely savoring of united nom
uiar support. It is, Of course, for that
reason that SO far American recognition
has been withheld. The Roosevelt ad-
ministration is tenaciously and properly
oetermlned not to accord its approval
70 any authority at Havana that does
not unmistakably speak for more than
a single political or military faction of
the sorely divided Cuban nation. The
movement responsible for WEDNESDAYS
events Is supposed to have been enei-
neered by interests which seek the re-
instatement of the deposed De Cespedes
presidency, but 1t is plain that even II
that government were to be restored It
would from the outset face. the violent
opposition Of the Grau San Martin
forces, now struggling for their own
maintenance in office.
Cuba has presented such an incal-
culable, kaleidoscope since last Summer
that 1t would be worse than idle to risk
q prophecy as to how the islands woes
VIII finally end. Meantime the posi-
bility OF American Intervention, contin-
uously reluctant as the United States
Is to envision such q recourse. remains
an ever-present possibility. A feet of
our wsrships is In, or adjacent to,
Cuban waters. President Roosevelt has
just announced that Ambassador Welles.
previously designated as Secretary Hulrs
chief aide at next months Pan-Ameri-
can Conference in Uruguay, will stay
at Havana Indefinitely. This consti-
tutes notice that the United States
maintains its policy of watchful wait
ing In Cuba, hoping always that the
Cubans themselves will sooner or later
contrive to evolve their own salvation.
but prepared, should conditions event.
ually demand it, to carry out all its
obligations.
The Washington Government would
rejoice II the stabilization of Cuba could
be accomplished before the twenty-one
American republics convene In confer
ence at Montevideo q month hence.
Whether that consummation ensues in
the interval or not, it must be appar-
ent to all of Latin America that the
United States policy is marked by a
studied restraint that completely divests
it of that imperialism" with which
anti-American elements in Cuba and
elsewhere are fond Of charging the
Colossus of the North