National Affairs: Barlow Suspicious

When U. S. Ambassador Harry Frank Guggenheim arrived in Cuba, one of the crankiest, most vexatious problems he found waiting settlement was a $9,000,000 real estate claim of U. S. citizen Joseph E. Barlow, long-time Havana resident and land promoter (TIME, April 29 et seq.). For ten years Mr. Barlow, at times irascible, had been pressing the U. S. Government for justice from Cubans he claimed had stolen his property. Last week Ambassador Guggenheim thought he had found a method of settlement. Citizen Barlow balked at the arrangement.

Citizen Barlow claims that in 1919 he bought swamp acres in what is...