Peace on the Prado

Last week President Gerardo Machado drew a deep, relieved breath and, like a contemplative barman picking up the chairs after a routine saloon fight, began setting his country to rights. Like an experienced barman, however, President Machado kept an alert eye cocked for a renewal of hostilities, which hotheads had continued to predict during the past fortnight. In Havana, where an expected uprising never materialized, police sat ready in armored cars. Miguel Marano Gomez, onetime Mayor of Havana, who spent the revolutionary period hiding in Havana, waiting for the insurrecto campaign on the eastern end of the island to become a success, escaped from the country, turned up in Manhattan. Peace reigned on the Prado.

President Machado was happy to announce that the extra expense incurred by the Government during the revolution had been only $150,000. The rebels had lost $500,000. he estimated, most of it in stores and munitions captured at Gibara (TIME. Aug. 31). To show that his heart was in the right place, last week President Machado split a $60,000 bonus between the troops who were in action during the 15-day campaign.

Reporters found one gloomy insurrectionist sucking away at a planter's punch in a cafe in Obispo Street. "At least," said he, brightening, "we spoiled Machado's fishing season."

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