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Focuses on the foreign policy of U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt towards Cuba. Repeal of the Platt Amendment; Impact of the American capital to the country; Changes in the Cuban government.

The article presents information related to sociopolitical condition in Cuba. The university is closed because irresponsible students and professors mistook license for liberty, talked communism, plotted the overthrow of free institutions. President Gerardo Machado is eternally grateful to the United States, and will show this gratitude by stamping out communism in Cuba. Furthermore, the Cuban press is free--free to print the truth. Machado cannot permit a few editors wilfully to distort the news. There have been killings. The President admits this tacitly.

The article discusses the passenger ship the "St. Louis" that carried several hundred German-Jewish refugees during the late 1930s. The article describes U.S. immigration laws, the plight of the passengers of the "St. Louis" helmed by captain Gustav Schroeder as it attempted to enter Havana, Cuba, and the efforts of the relief organization the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee and attorney Lawrence Berenson to negotiate with the Cuban government. INSET: U.S. STANDS FIRM ON QUOTAS.

Discusses love letters exchanged between Fidel Castro and Natalia Revuelta. Her role in financing Castro's attack on Fulgencio Batista in 1953; Her concerns about Cuba's corruption at that time; The loving friendship between Castro and Revuelta; Value of her letters to him; Their contents; Scandal involving Castro and his wife Mirta; Revuelta's daughter Alina by Castro.

Presents letters to the editor referencing articles and topics discussed in previous issues. Comments on the article "Poison Gas and the Civilian Front," published in the August 5 issue; Issues related to chemical warfare; Discussion of the significance of Elizabethan poetry; description of the political situation in Cuba.

Focuses on the political conditions prevailing in Cuba, with reference to the torture and murder of the author's Cuban friend. Contributions of the author's friend in the movement to overthrow Cuban dictator Gerardo Machado; Assistance given to the author by his friend in arranging interviews with the Cuban leaders of the patriots' movement who had gone underground; Account of the murder of the author's friend on a road outside Havana; Charges made by the Cuban Supreme Court and both houses of the Cuban Legislature for the military killings to the present government of Flugencio Batista.

Focuses on the current political and social condition of Cuba. View that a new spirit of nationalism is alive in Cuba today; Report that twenty of Cuba's 130 active sugar mills are in the hands of the workers or under-managers chosen by labor; Orientation of students and the ABC, a secret political organization, towards fascist rather than toward communist philosophy; Differences in the policy of the students and the ABC; Assurance of U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt that the U.S. is doing all possible to avoid intervention in Cuba; View that the traditional hypocrisy of United States policy toward Cuba has been maintained; Opinion that a Cuban government that survives will have to depend either on the support of American capital or else on that of its own people.

The article reports on the notice issued by Fidel Castro, the leader of the guerrilla rebellion in Cuba concerning his intention of running Cuba after its dictator Fulgencio Batista goes down. It mentions that Castro determined to end the relationship of the 26th of July Movement and other organizations that established the anti-Batista joint council. Moreover, Castro states that his movement asserted the role of sustaining public order and reshaping Cuba's armed forces.

The article discusses the situation in Cuba a year after the rebellion, led by rebel Fidel Castro, started in 1956. It states that in December 1957, Cuban President Fulgencio Batista wept as Colonel Fermin Cowley, who was killed by men of Castro, was being buried. It says that though the military and most of labor groups remain on Batista's side, he cannot stop the revolution and has only spurred it with counterterrorism.

The article discusses Fidel Castro's invasion of Cuba, which took place December 2, 1956. Castro and his 80-man invading force sailed from Mexico during harsh weather conditions on a small yacht called the "Granma." The article presents details of the invasion, which succeeded in overthrowing General Batista's regime in 1959.

The article presents a picture titled "Cuba Libre," which depicts the social and political pressure being exerted on Cuba.

The article focuses on the presidential elections in Cuba. It says that Dictator Fulgencio Batista and Rebel Chief Fidel Castro have confined the chances of a democratic election wherein Batista's Congress have suspended the freedom of speech while Castro's gunmen hijacked the Cubana airliner, and laid ambushes along the highways. Meanwhile, Andres Rivero, one of the leading candidates for President and hand-picked by Batista to succeed him, has been considered the favorite candidates.

The article focuses on the designation of Prime Minister Andres Rivero Aguero as a presidential candidate for the June 1, 1958 election by Cuban President Fulgencio Batista, which prevents the military victory of rebel Fidel Castro. Aguero says that he would ask for a general political amnesty from the Congress if he will be elected as president. Meanwhile, it mentions that the rebel answered through a promise to boycott the elections and renewed violence.

The article discusses the assumed disinclination of Cuban President Fulgencio Batista to retrieve democracy in the country. It says that the constitutional guarantee suspension due to Socialist leader Fidel Castro's rebellion, would lapse in February 1958. It tells that Batista was forced to recover democracy due to the political necessity urged by the constitution and due to the diplomatic pressure of the U.S. It adds that Bohemia magazine censorship showed that Batista was still coercive.

The article focuses on the revolutions against the Cuban government of Fulgencio Batista y Zaldivar while commemorating the 24th anniversary of his political career as off-and-on president of Cuba. It states that an uprising planned by Fidel Castro in Cienfuegos has left an approximately death toll from 75 to 200 people. It says that the two navy captains and the maritime police commandants have died in the uprising.

The article features Cuban socialist leader Fidel Castro, the support of Cubans to him, and his efforts as protest to the government of Cuban President Fulgencio Batista. It states that Castro to the people of Oriente province is a romantic legend while, to Batista he is a threat to his position as the Prime Minister of Cuba. It says that Castro spent his childhood in Oriente and in 1947, he participated in a seaborne filibuster which aimed to oust the dictatorship of Dominican Republic.

The article focuses on the revolution in Cuba during the administration of President Fulgencio Batista. It states that a hotel was burned by saboteurs in Cuba, as well as sugar warehouses, and tobacco-curing sheds. It also mentions that the troops of Batista fought against rebels in two battles in Oriente. It adds that Havana, Cuba was paralyzed because of a bomb explosion in an electric cable conduit.

Reprints the article `The Architect of the Cuban State: Fulgencio Batista and the Populism in Cuba, 1937-1940' from the May 2000 issue of `Journal of American Studies.'

Focuses on the dispute between Cuban dictator Fulgencio Batista and guerilla leader Fidel Castro in 1958. Plan of Batista to liquidate Castro; Number of troops led by Castro; Failures of Batista in governing the country; Attempt to restore the government by means of elections.

Comments on various issues and events related to politics as of June 22, 1957. Victory of the Conservative Party of Canada and its impact on the possibility of a political dynasty; Revolt against Cuban President Fulgencio Batista; Approval of a long-range economic-development loan fund requested by U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower.

Argues whether Cuban revolutionary leader Fidel Castro should be considered as a Communist. Personality traits of Castro; Categorization of the term "legitimacy," by German writers, upon which authority or rule is based; Need for a charismatic leader to remain in contact with the masses; Essentials of a charismatic leader.