Show CUBAN CHAOS confused reports which come out of Cuba are arc two important factors which few people outside hc the state department realize One is is t that 1 i American m policy is battling to prevent a repetition of the the- thet t tyranny ranny of Dictator Mach Machado do The other is that this policy has been placed l on the spot by the British and other gov gov- Contrary to the general impression Ambassador bas Ambas Welles convinced Roosevelt per cent regarding the wisdom isa m of He said that said that President Grau had jailed 2000 innocent inno inno- cent political prisoners Machados Machado's maximum was He asserted that five or six political killings per night was the average under Grau When Machado killed one it was front page news He argued that 90 per cent of of the Cuban people were bitterly opposed to Grau that thatA A Am American rican recognition would saddle the Cuban people with a tyrant they could not get rid of This This- was behind the ovation given Welles Velles when he returned Meanwhile however the British have been moving to embarrass American policy Previous ous reports that the Irish Free State contemplated contemplated contemplated plated recognition were garbled Canny Michael MacWhite Irish minister went to the state department with a warning that the British British British Brit Brit- ish foreign office was sounding out the dominions dominions dominions domin domin- ions regarding recognition It was a friendly tip to the U. U S. S A. A lie Meanwhile the Mexicans were busy toward the same end Having already recognized Grau they tried to get the Chileans and Brazilians Brazilians Brazilians Bra Bra- to follow suit The Brazilian foreign minister minister- spoke to Secretary Hull about it when he hc passed through en route to Montevideo But Hull stood pat So also did Roosevelt He opposed a regime which out out-Machados Machado RINGING OUT REPEAL The closing hours of the Great American Dry Age saw some weird sights They saw red headed Dr James M. M Doran commissioner of industrial alcohol and time one czar of the enforcement forces enforcement forces abdicating t to become becom czar of the wet forces The versatile doctor now becomes the Will VIll Hays of the distilling industry industry indus indus- try boy at a salary three times what he has been getting in government service Closing hours also saw everybody under t tie the e sun applying applying applying apply apply- ing for permits to import liquor Even Jimmy Roosevelt eldest son of the president was among those who wanted to import a consignment consignment consignment con con- of Scotch Closing hours also saw sawa a mad rush on the part of the thc whisky ring to hire lobbyists and high powered executives One of those snatched up in the rush was George Christian secretary of the late President President President dent Harding recently holding down a soft berth in the shipping board George had his sal salary ry reduced 4 ced 2000 by the New New Deal Deal had b been en told he would be eased out soon He will now work f for a distilling firm c The distillers are going to need Doc Doe Doran George Christian and more big guns Unlike Unlike Unlike Un Un- like son James Franklin Roosevelt is a hard- hard boiled believer in strictest government liquor control And behind the distillers' distillers codes was one of the biggest knockdown and dra out battles of the administration Professor Tugwell Tugwell Tugwell Tug- Tug well and Secretary Vall Wallace ace first proposed a complete government monopoly of liquor They wanted to put the United States in the distilling business limit supply strictly regulate regulate regulate regu regu- late distribution Other members of ot the Roosevelt liquor committee opposed this bitterly bitterly bitterly bit bit- terly said the American public had had 14 years of thirst regulation would not stand for fot any more They said a government monopoly could not be worked out in the few days remaining before final repeal Roosevelt agreed with the latter but otherwise backed up Tugwell and Wallace WaIlace He favored the strictest possible government control under the A A A and N R A. A As a result the distillers distillers' debated whether they should not jump the traces and take their then case caseto caseto caseto to the public But the shadow of defeats in North and South Carolina was too much They remembered the lat latent nt power of the dry forces the old league Roosevelt had his his- way Copyright lon J by bi United Feature Syndicate Inc lac |