Visitor

Many a square foot of U. S. soil last week became, by international courtesy, territory of the Cuban republic. But only momentarily; for Gerardo Machado, President of Cuba, moved expeditely from Havana to visit President Coolidge. A Cuban law prohibits the Cuban President from leaving Cuba. Therefore, President Machado, never without a Cuban flag in his pocket, annexed every spot of U. S. soil for the moment during which he passed over it or paused upon it. He could not be accused of leaving Cuba. He took Cuba with him. He even annexed for Cuba, temporarily, a spot in the temporary U. S. White House (No. 15 Dupont Circle).

In Washington, President Machado officially invited President Coolidge to attend the Pan-American Conference on International Law to be held in Havana in February, 1928. Six feet in height, heavily built, President Machado has, for his vigor of policy as well as physique, been termed "Mussolini of Cuba."* From Washington he went to Wall Street, to talk sugar.

* Dictator-Premier Mussolini of Italy stands only 5 ft., 8 in. But he bulges with sinew.