"Eminent Citizen"

In two ways last week Cuba showed her present glowing affection for the U. S. of Good Neighbor Franklin D. Roosevelt. Signed by President Federico Laredo Bru was a bill making July 4 an official holiday for all commercial, industrial, governmental activity. Moved in the Cuban Senate by Liberal Senator Manuel Capestany was a proposal to confer upon Good Neighbor Roosevelt the title of "Eminent Citizen of America" in honor of his "historical role in the defense of democratic principles." For Cuba's Fourth there were fireworks, concerts, a banquet for U.S. Ambassador J. Butler Wright, a parade and a National Theatre mass meeting in honor of the U.S. attended by President Laredo Bru and Strong Man Colonel Fulgencio Batista. Well might Cuba honor Eminent Citizen Roosevelt's Administration who in 1934 signed a reciprocal trade treaty which lowered the duty on Cuban sugar, helped to restore Cuba's market for her main crop.

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