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The Republic of Cuba 



DR. RAFAEL MONTORO 



Secretary of the Executive Department 



S dean of the Executive Coun- 

 cil stands out prominently 

 "that Grand Old Man of 

 Cuba," Dr. Rafael Montoro, 

 for many years Cuba's Min- 

 ister at the Court of St. 

 James, where, in spite of our 

 minor political position, in 

 comparison with the great ''world powers," he was 

 invariably accorded that preferment which true 

 worth and genuine culture alone can command. 

 Dr. Montoro is today Secretary of the Execu- 

 tive branch of the Cuban Government, and on 

 his shoulders falls the weight of many of the young 

 Repubhc's knotty problems. 



DR. PABLO DESVERNINE 



Secretary of State 

 HE President chose the dis- 

 tinguished lawyer, Cosme de 

 a Torriente, for his Secretary 

 of State, but ill health within 

 a few months compelled him 

 to resign in favor of Dr. Pablo 

 Desvernine, former Minister 

 Plenipotentiary at Washington and probably the 

 best known Cuban in the United States, not alone 

 because he practiced law for seven years in 

 New York City, but because his fundamental 

 knowledge of all civilized codes has compelled 

 recognition throughout the judicial world. Dr. 

 Desvernine is a master of some five or six lan- 

 guages, which fact is most serviceable to him 

 in receiving representatives of foreign nations. 



