Who's Afraid?

Stoutly last week the Government of Dictator General Gerardo Machado y Morales:

1) Denied that the water supply of Havana was "all but cut off" by the explosion of a dynamite bomb near the public aqueduct. Potent, the explosion tore a four-foot hole in a watermain, injured four passersby, whooshed an 18-lb. piece of masonry over a block and a half of houses. All day long a 15-ft. fountain spouted from the hole, but Secretary of Public Works Lombillo Clark said he would soon have that fixed.

2) Denied that T. R. H. Edward of Wales and Prince George were "afraid to land in Havana," when, in mid-ocean last week, T. R. H. suddenly changed their minds about visiting Cuba, just before they were due in Bermuda. At the British Legation Cuban reporters were lamely reminded that "the British Court is in mourning for Princess Louise, the King's sister" (TIME, Jan. 12).

Not afraid to be in Cuba last week were numerous merrymaking socialites, among them Mr. & Mrs. Irenee du Pont of Wilmington, Del., Prince & Princess Tokugawa of Japan, Princess Alexandra-Victoria of Schleswig-Holstein, Bishop James E. Freeman of Washington and U. S. Ambassador Harry F. Guggenheim, whose dinner-party-of-the week was lavish.

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