THE C U B A REV IE W 



Dr. Carlos Manuel de Cespedes 



Secretary of State 



Dr. Carlos Manuel de Cespedes was ap- 

 pointed Cuban Secretary of State in June, 

 1922. From 1914 until 1922 he was the 

 Cuban Minister to the United States. 



A man of vast erudition and culture, 

 gifted with a genial, pleasing personality, 

 tact and ability, he has won popular favor. 



His father, Carlos Manuel de Cespedes, 

 was the leader in the struggle for freedom 

 in the Ten Years War, raising the banner 

 of revolt against Spanish dominion in 1868, 

 and freeing two hundred slaves on his 

 estate Demajagua. Thus, he may well be 

 called the Emancipator of Cuba. The ten 

 years war culminated in the Treaty of 

 Zanjon, when the Cuban leaders laid 

 down their arms, trusting to promises 

 which were broken. Again in 1895 the 

 struggle for freedom was renewed and the 

 intervention of the United States, the Span- 

 ish-American War, brought on by the ex- 

 plosion of the "Maine," culminated in the 

 independence of Cuba. 



The Secretary of State, Dr. Carlos 

 Manuel de Cespedes, was born in New 

 York, where his mother, Mrs. Ana de 

 Quesada de Cespedes was sojourning for a 

 brief period during the war. He was 

 educated in the United States, France and 

 Germany. He served as colonel in the 

 Cuban Army of Liberation. During the 



war of 1895 Dr. de Cespedes was Governor 

 of the Province of Oriente and after the 

 establishment of the Cuban Republic he 

 acted as a representative from Oriente. 

 Elected Vice President of the House of 

 Representatives, he served in Congress 

 from 1902 to 1908. Appointed Cuban 

 Mmister to Rome in 1909, he was trans- 

 ferred in the same capacity to the Argen- 

 tine, Uruguay and Paraguay, where he re- 

 mained until his appointment to Washing- 

 ton in 1914. 



Sr. Ricardo Lancis y Perez 



Secretary of the Interior 



Seiior Ricardo Lancis was appointed 

 Secretary of the Interior in June, when 

 President Zayas made a radical change in 

 his cabinet. He is a native born Cuban, 

 and studied in the University of Madrid, 

 where he received the degree of Doctor of 

 Law. Later he returned to Havana and 

 was appointed Judge of the Superior Court. 

 (Audiencia.) He was President of the 

 Provincial Electoral Junta in 1916. He is 

 a true patriot and suffered many hardships 

 in the cause of the Liberation of Cuba in 

 early days. He attended a Congress for 

 Penal Reform in the United States and his 

 thesis on that subject was highly com- 

 mended. 



