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TO VISIT CAPITAL _ Dr. Miguel M. Comez Plans to Take Over Office on May 20. BY WILLIAM E. SHEA. Dr. Miguel Mariano Comez. Presi dent-elcet of Cuba, will do well if he gets all the enjoyment possible out of the round of entertainments being prepared for him on his arrival in Washington from California Tuesday. Dr. Comez will take over the presi aency oi wuDa on May 20. and from that day onward his opportunities for getting pleas ure out of life will be few. The plans for Dr. Comez's re ception and en tertainment while in Washington, as t e n t a t ively ar ranged a week in advance, provide for a night at the White House, Tuesday; Wed Dr. fomn. nesaay, a luiicueuu » me can Union, a reception at the Cuban Embassy, and a dinner at the Mary land home of Sumner Welles, Under secretary of State. Dr. Comez will spend Wednesday night at the Cuban Embassy and the following day he will leave for New York. Continuing improvement of Cuba's economic situation, which began with a rise in the price of sugar in 1933, will have a softening effect on the problems facing President-elect Comez when he takes office, but even so, they will tax his resources to the utmost. Comezs task will be to bring his country back to normalcy. Under Machado, Cuba was for years in the grip of a ruthless dictatorship. Con stitutional guarantees were suspended, the Parliament and judiciary were deprived of all power, and no citizen could call his life his own. The regime was one of personal government run wild. Violence Met By Violence. Opposition to Machado took a form no less violent. For every enemy of the administration slain by Machado's porra or his secret police, the under ground revolutionary groups made re prisals. Almost hourly, day and night, bombs exploded in Havana’s streets. Then in September 1933 came the coup by the army sergeants, led by Fulgencio Batista. Machado was com pelled to flee the country by airplane, taking with him, according to gossip, $6,000,000 in bills hastily stuffed into a suitcase. Thereafter in rapid suc cession the presidency was occupied by the mild and pacific Carlos Manuel de Cespedes, the semi-radical Grau San Martin, the youthful Carlos Hevia, whose tenure of office was limited to 24 hours and whose chief qualification was that he was a gradu ate of the United States Naval Academy and presumably persona grata to Washington; Col. Carlos Mendletq, a veteran of the Cuban war of independence, and the present incumbent, Jose T. Barnet, a career man in Cuba’s diplomatic service. Followers Expect Reward. Comez, like all presidents when they enter office, whether in Cuba, the United States, or elsewhere, has numerous “deserving” followers who will expect to be rewarded for their services to him. When and if Comez begin's throwing Batistas out of jobs to make way for his own followers, he will have very serious trouble with the head of the army. And the moment Comez loses the support of the army he will be out of a job himself. Depending on whether you talk with a friend of Comez's in Havana or an opponent, you will be told (a) that the president-elect is the answer to Cuba's call and that he will make a splendid success of his presidency; and(b) that he will be unable to solve j Cuba’s economic and political pro blems and will go the way of all re cent presidents to oblivion. The argument which Comez’s friends make in support of their thesis runs about as follows: Comezs is a young man—in his early forties—and though not robust he has the endurance to stay on the job early and late, as he will have to do; always he has been a hard and conscientious worker. It is to his advantage that he does not belong among the veterans of 1895 who have dominated Cuban politics throughout the life of the Republic, to Cuba's great cost. There have been Cubans who, to put it that way, have used public office to go from poverty to riches, but Comez enters the presi dency the possessor of a considerable fortune inherited from his father, Jose Miguel Comez, who was Cuba's second president. Wants Pure Regime. Comez, the son, will not use the pres idency to enrich himself. The admin istration of the elder Comez has been called some very harsh names, and the son, his friends say. is determined that his government will be so upright and honest that it will remove any trace of odium that still attaches to the family name. Comez has been in public life for many years, first as a Representative j • in the Cuban Congress and later as Wed 50 Years LOCAL COUPLE CELEBRATES IN CALIFORNIA. r.1 ■ '■ i MR. AND MRS. CHARLES DEFOREST ROBERTS Of this city, who celebrate their 50th wedding anniver sary today. They are visit ing in Los Angeles, Calif. They are the parents of Mrs. Ernest R. Grant, managing director of the District of Co lumbia Tuberculosis Associa tion. -Harris-Ewing Photo. -• Lanterns Adorn Streets. Dairen. Manchukuo, has “dressed up" by hanging strings of Japanese lanterns across all business streets. the mayor of Havana, and has both ' legislative and administrative ex- j perience. He has a practical knowl edge of Cuba's domestic problem and he has a sympathetic understanding of his country's special relationship to the United States. His record as mayor of Havana was outstanding in several respects. Without aid from the national treas ury he built two large hospitals and a large industrial school for boys, and he made It his personal business to j see that they and the other Institu tions maintained by the city were competently and efficiently managed. Finally, say his friends, the Cuban j people have faith in him and will give him patient support. They are weary of revolutions and dictators and want nothing so much as a speedy I return to constiutional government. Critics See Downfall. The foregoing is In substance what ! Comez's friends and admiring well- | wishers say. Comez's political enemies, i on the other hand, and cynics gen- i erally, paint a much more somber pic ture. They point out that for Comez i to succeed the first requisite will be a i strong and disciplined party behind him. This he has not got. His elec tion last January was effected by a coalition of his own personal party, the Accion Republicans, with frag ments of the old Liberal party and the Nacionalistas, aided by forthright support from the Army. It is said that these groups will quarrel with each other, just as happened with the coalition government of Mendieta. and that they will drift awray from the President. Comez is not a “strong” man and will not be able to supply the cement to hold his assortment of followers together. Nor will he be able to give them jobs to keep them contented. Nowadays things happen rapidly in Cuba. After Comez goe* into office May 20, not many weeks will pass be fore he will be put to a test. If he meets the first test with ability and courage his chances will be enhanced of being the man to carry Cuba from the chaos and bloodshed of the recent past to the peace and prosperity that should be Cuba's lot. (Copyright. 1936. New York Tribune. Ine.i. Hot-Water HEAT Any nationally adver- ^ tised oroduct complete ly installed in six rooms. No Money Down 3 Year* to Pay Without Extra Charie Progressive Mtmhtt I' Oil Burners with Hot-Water Heat Combination *12-47 For Aj Low A* r«r m». No Money Down (You can buy Prorressiye Oil Burn-\ ors and pay for same monthly at 1 Potomac Electric Power Co. f FREE~ESTIMATES~AT YOUR CONVENIENCE ECONOMY Company I I 906 10th St. N.W. 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