The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-01-19

Washington, Jan 19.-Behind the busting of Dr Grau San Mar tin as president of Cuba was State Department by-play not known to the outside world. His resignation followed a cable to the State Department from Jef- ferson Caffrey, Roosevelt's per- sonal representative, bearing out all that Ambassador Welles had said about the Grau regime.
 Previous to his departure, Caffrey had been uncertain re-, garding the advisability of recognizing Grau. Grau, know ing this, stood out against earlier suggestions by Wellcs that Cuba form q coalition government.
 Finally, however, Caffrey sub stantiated Welles. He reported the Grau dictatorship worse than Machado's, that the United States could not give it the stamp of approval through recognition. GRAU RESIGNS
 Two days later, Grau resigned.
 Carlos Hevia, his successor, is no whirlwind, but on the whole he is a break for the United States. He is liberal, but not radical. He comes from a con- servati e, sugar-owning family. As secretary of agriculture, he sided with the state department against Grau's seizure of the Cuba America Sugar company's plantations. He is a graduate inf hard to pin down, and a Staunch friend of Carlos Mendietta, the man recognized as Cuba's best qualified leader.
 The State Department will go slow but if Cuba settles down a bit, Hevia will be recognized. SCOTCH
 Recent Anglo-American nego- tiations for an increased quota of Scotch whiskey in exchange for greater British imports of American pork were conducted, in part, between Sir Rodney Lind say, British ambassador, and k. Walton Moore, assistant secretary of state.
 Sir Ronald Is son of the 28th Earl of Crawford, most dis tinguished Scotsman, and, ac- cording to some of his friends, inherits some of the attributes of that race.
 At any rate, after the pork whiskey negotiations were con- cluded, MT Moore, who comes from Virginia, sent Am bassador Lindsay a memento in the form of large and deliciously cured Smithfield ham, the finest he could obtain.
 In return, Sir Ronald sent MT Moore one bottle of Scotch. FEDERAL INSURANCE
 More than a quarter century ago, Justice Louis D. Brandeis, then a cJusading reformer, ex- posed the mal practices of sev- eral large insurance companies and forced through the Massa- chusetts legislature state-oper- ated insurance system.
 Today, New Dealers are study ing thi. highly successful experi- ment with a view to having the federal government do the same thing on a national scale. Adyo- cates of the plan claim it would pour hundreds of millions of dollars annually into the gOv- ernment's coffers which could be used for Recovery Expendf- lures.
 Representative David J. Lewis of Maryland has taken the initia- tive in the movement by intro- ducing a bill giving the treasury wide powers to sell government life insurance.
 BAD BABE RUTH
 The mighty Standard Oil com pany of New Jersey has run foul of the government on a. lot of things in its day, but it took Natha Margold, inquisitive solic- itor of the Interior Department, to pull the prize move against it.
 The Standard Oil has been of fering baseball bats. gloves and balls to the back-lot kids who someday aspire to be Babe