H.L. Mencken, in Havana on his way home from Berlin, witnesses the end of a short–lived, and unsuccessful, liberal revolution in Cuba.
March 8, 1917 — I observed two things especially. The first was that, for all the uproar, no one was drunk. The other was that the cops beat up no one.
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