Monday, Dec. 11, 1944

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Cuba's tough ex-President. Fulgencio Batista, was not in Cuba last week. He was making an ambitious tour of South America. Proclaiming himself a democratic hero, he blandly accepted praise for unexpectedly allowing his hand-picked candidate, Carlos Saladrigas, to be defeated for President in a fair election.

But a high Cuban official reported that when (and if) Batista returns to Havana, he will be arrested, "for criminal, not political, offenses."

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