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. wale OM eseysGo-Round =" _** { ‘Thomas ¥, Dewey, attorney-| w and private ¢ltizen, now; slides in and out of Washington | las quietly and efficiently as he; lused to slide?from the Hotel Roosevelt in New York-to the, Governor's mansion in Albany.| He gets things done. - -* ' -/ With three of his own men) in the Eisenhower Cabinet; (Dulles, Brownell} and Mitchell),; {plus one of his appointees on: the Supreme Court (Justice Harlan), plus his one-time press secretary, Jim Hagerty, in the, ‘White House, Dewey should be! able to get things done in Washington, When it comes ‘to foreign. affairs, however. Thomas E. | Dewey has ‘a record of laying ia great big eg: When the SE urkish govern- ment hired him at a fee of $150,000 to get them a $300 million American loan, Dew ca e up with a paltry $25 mi lion. ain, Jast week in ‘Cuba, th mah who materially. helped get the nomination. wag unable’ even to see President Batista,” plicated bi gant story. 4, ‘Cuban Sugar, “Magnate : Dewey’ went to Cuba on be-|: half ‘of Loeb, Rhoades, & Co.,|' ‘New York brokers, to try to] take" over the Cuban-, -Atlantic Sugar Co., largest in Cuba,‘ Behind Dewey, at least in the minds: of Cubans, was: Julio Lobo, who owns 12 sugar mil, controls a big hunk of Cuba’ sugar output, and had been buying up stock: in’ Cuban- AWlantic with a view of taking | tit over, Associated with bim, ‘was Dewey’s client, John Loeb. 1" However, Lobo has unortho- dox ideas about taking Cuba lout of the international sugar. agreement. So, for this reason :Plus the fact that Cuba doesn’t want to encourage a sugar ‘monopoly, President Batista \blocked Lobo's raid on Cuban- } “Atlantic. «He sent word" to Lobo last January that his ac- quisition of the company would not be sanctioned. { At this point, April 5, there entered upon the scene: Ex- Gov, Dewey. It was announced that John Loeb had bought out Lobo’s minority interest in (Cuban-Atlantic, and to con- Ivince the Cuban government ithat this was a fact, Thomas LE. twey dutifully went ie Havana, _ } bial < fewAt thin point some happen Arthur Gardner, our ‘ well: meaning Ambassador to Cuba, gave a ainner for Dewey, A, 9. To~the: dinner he invited; Julio Lobo, the man who sup; ipcsedly had bowed out of, dag} sugar deal. Earlier that - day; ‘Lobo had married his German’ fiancee. Despite the honeymoon: launched only that day, ever, Lobo was at the dinner- along with Dewey’ and oho (Loeb, the man from whom su posedly he had parted companys Dewey’s job in Havana was to convince the Cuban govern-, ment that Lobo was out of the’ (Cuban-Atlantic, deal, and, the. fact that Lobo: was at‘the “ain ner convinced them of f Just, ‘opposite.” _ ; ‘Unable to see President: Ba- tista, Dewey ‘tried to sel [Amadeo Lopez Castro’ and’ Jorge Barroso, both ministers. without portfolio and the top. ‘government men in Cuba when’ it comes to sugar, Both ac- cepted a luncheon engagement, then backed out. Finally Ambassador Gardner, gotgDewey ‘in to see Martinez ;Saqnz, head of the Natio: agk of Cuba.’ * | . At this point Thomas E. De ary ey,tattorney-atiaw, went hompe UCopyrieht, 1956, Bell, ayodicate, tne},