TIME

March 4, 1935. P. 24.

Cuba

Accelerated Popping

Carlos Mendieta, President of Cuba by the grace of Army Chief of Staff Fulgencio Batista, last week made bold to postpone Cuba's long‑promised elections once more, this time from March 3 to “some time in August.” It was more than Cuba's volatile young voters could stand. A combined strike of students and teachers at Havana University was promptly made political, with a demand for the resignations of Mendieta, Batista and two members of the Cabinet. The popping of bombs in Havana .suddenly accelerated to a steady sputter. The strike spread swiftly down through Cuba's entire State educational system, including even the National Kindergarten Association, taking in both teachers and students to the number of more than 300,000. Frightened, President Mendieta gave the strikers the resignations of the two Cabinet members, sat tight.