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Updated: June 10, 2025
All officers are subject to removal at any time by vote of a certain proportion of the people. The Cuban government was organized in the spring of 1902. On May 20 of that year, Governor-General Wood for the United States turned over the government house at Havana to President Tomaso Estrada y Palma. The ceremonies attending the transfer were impressive.
Among these were men of refinement and good address, scions of old Spanish families, who, like M. Gutierrez de Estrada, found ready sympathy among the Emperor's entourage.
Felix de los Rios and four others of the Cuban army, carrying sealed dispatches from the Cuban government to Señor T. Estrada Palma, of the New York junta. The U. S. dynamite cruiser Vesuvius shelled the fortifications at the entrance to Santiago harbour. The water-supply of Santiago cut off by the American forces.
The Cuban Junta, with its headquarters, represents the legation of the Cuban republic abroad, and the head of the Junta, as it is called, is T. Estrada Palma. Properly speaking he is the delegate, and with the members of his ministerial and diplomatic household constitutes the delegation of the Cuban republic.
There was no record on the bill of lading to show that the shipper was the Winchester Repeating Arms Company of New Haven, Conn., and that the cargo, ordered on January 23 and February 23, 1937, by an Italian named Benito Estrada, was a large quantity of rifles, pistols and one hundred and forty cases of cartridges for various caliber guns.
Organization Which Has Represented the Insurgents in the United States Splendid Work Done by Senor Tomas Estrada Palma and His Staff Sources of the War Funds Generosity of Cuban Cigar Makers Who Have Supported the Revolution Liberal Gifts from Americans Some Inside Facts about Filibustering American Sailors Do Not Like to Capture Insurgent Supplies Palma's Address to the American People.
Across its plank floor and beyond ran the rails of the "Pan-American," but the trains halt at Mariscal because Guatemala, or more exactly Estrada Cabrera, does not permit them to enter his great and sovereign republic. Our own passage looked easy, but that was because of our inexperience of Central American ways.
Tomas Estrada y Palma was chosen as delegate plenipotentiary and general agent abroad, with headquarters in New York. Both civil and military organizations were, for a time, crude and somewhat incoherent. It could not be otherwise. They were engaged in a movement that could only succeed by success. Arms and money were lacking.
If you were spelling 'boat, for instance, you would begin with an E, the third letter after B; then R for the O, being the third letter from O. So you'd spell 'boat, ERDW; and Senora Estrada knows when she gets that despatch that she must count three letters BACK from each letter to get the right ones.
I soon civilized my hut with a divan, the Hindostani chabutarah, the Spanish estrada, the "mud bank" or "bunting" of Sierra Leone, a cool earth-bench running round the room, which then wanted only a glass window.
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