Indianapolis Times, Volume 44, Number 13, Indianapolis, Marion County, 26 May 1932 — Page 10

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CUBA'S PLIGHT STIRS ANXIETY; REVOLT FEARED United States Blamed for Want, Misery, Tyranny Found on Island. BV WILLIAM rilll.ir SIMMS urlvf Fnrtirn liliinr WASHINGTON. May 26 The p'.icht nf Cubs*, virtually a ward of tpr Unit'd State* is causing increasing anxiety here. A major rri l ;* m the little republic across i hr straits of Florida seems inevitable Extensive and elaborate plans to overthrow President Machado, or perk p* even ass'-’amate him and n'ntr high Cuban officials. Just have been frustrated by Havana police, it is said, but ;he situation remains extremejv trpee. notw ths'anding. Hundreds of arres's have been rrnde bv the secret police and are continuing, according to reports rea r hing the capita! Among those arr r *feri are Colonel Carlo* Mendie• • a and Colonel Roberto Mendez prna : e leaders of the Maehado oppor- ticn. t ho. last August, led an Seareh f"r Fx-President A seareh i* under wav. it i reported. for former President Menocal, for horn a warrant has been iv';er‘ "Revolutionary headquarter-’ were raided in Havana over the week-end. but. despite the police. bombs are exploding at the rate of about a dozen a day. though with silent damage A Havana report j* that President. Machado soon will resign in favor of Dr. Orestes Ferrera. ambassador *o Washington who recently resigned to become Cuban secretary of state. Dr. Ferrera i* regarded as one of the strongest men in the island, though neither a Spaniard nor a Cohan born. An T'aiian by birth and a revolutionary m his youth, be went to the West Indies to fight tor Cuban independence from Spain. P will take a superman, however, to rescue Cuba from her predicament. Economically. financially, and politically she is pictured as r!oe to the end of her string, while her half-starved masses are kept from armed revolt only bv poverty lack of weapons, and the presence of a powerful. well-equ , .pp''d armv primlv s’ttinc on the jid. United States Blamed For mo*t of thejr difficulties the Cubans bttterlv blame the United ptptes. 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 country grants the other tariff concessions on all products of the soil and industry, and the so-called permanent, treaty.” or Platt amendment. This gives the United States the right to intervene "for the preservation of Cuban independence and to maintain a government capable of protecting life, property ami individual liberty.” Under the reciprocity treaty, Cubans accuse. Cuba was led to become a one-crop country. Encouraged by the United States, she ceased to engage in general agriculture and planted only sugar. Though a tropical cofin try. capable of growing anything, she does not raise even her own food, a large part of which she imports from the states. Bankruptcy Is raced When sugar is booming. Cuba is prosperous. Now that sugar 1* a drug on the market, and has been for years, she fares bankrutpey. Many of her people would starve were it not for minimum doles from the big sugar-centrals. To make bad matters worse, after making a one-rrop country of her. the United States increased its tariff on sugar. Under the Platt amendment. Cu-

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