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Grau's government lasted until January 15, 1934, when Caffery coordinated its removal. While Grau nominally retained presidential authority, Batista as Army Chief of Staff was engaged in parallel negotiations with U.S. embassy personnel. On January 15, 1934, Colonel Batista, acting with Caffery's backing, forced Grau's resignation. Caffery communicated U.S. approval of [[Carlos Mendieta]] as provisional president, and the Mendieta government received formal U.S. recognition within days of taking power. The resulting arrangement was referred to by historians as the "Caffery-Batista-Mendieta" government, reflecting the degree to which U.S. embassy influence was constitutive of the new order rather than external to it.[^3]
In 1934, four assailants attempted to assassinate Caffery in front of his home in Havana; he escaped because he had left earlier than usual to attend mass. From 1934 to 1937, Caffery and Batista maintained close personal contact, and Caffery consistently approved of the political direction Batista was taking in consolidating power within the Cuban military and political system.[^4]
In 1934, according to the university's account of his life, Caffery narrowly escaped an assassination attempt in Cuba because he left earlier than usual to attend mass; clippings in his papers carry the headlines "Assassins' leader is Seized on Eve of Attempt to Shoot Down Caffery" and "Plot to Murder Envoy of U.S. in Cuba Balked."[^4]
### Brazil: Wartime Diplomacy and the Corridor of Victory (1937-1944)
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[^1]: Office of the Historian, U.S. Department of State, "Jefferson Caffery," People - Department History, history.state.gov/departmenthistory/people/caffery-jefferson.
[^2]: University of Louisiana at Lafayette, Dupre Library Special Collections, "Collection 45: Caffery, Jefferson (1886-1974) Papers, 1902-1974," finding aid (2014); Office of the Historian, "Jefferson Caffery," history.state.gov.
[^3]: On the "Caffery-Batista-Mendieta" government (January 15, 1934 coup deposing Grau): FRUS 1934, Vol. V (The American Republics), Documents 10-14, documenting Caffery's active role; Irwin F. Gellman, *Roosevelt and Batista: Good Neighbor Diplomacy in Cuba, 1933-1945* (University of New Mexico Press, 1973), Ch. 4.
[^4]: Prabook, "Jefferson Caffery (February 1, 1886 - April 13, 1974)," World Biographical Encyclopedia, prabook.com/web/jefferson.caffery/931756.
[^4]: University of Louisiana at Lafayette University Libraries, "Did You Know ... The Reading Room Was Named After Ambassador Caffery?," April 13, 2022, https://library.louisiana.edu/node/2448; "Conspiracy to Assassinate Caffery," in "'Getting Things Done': Ambassador Jefferson Caffery's Life as a United States Diplomat," Scalar project, University of Louisiana at Lafayette, Jefferson Caffery Collection clippings, https://scalar.usc.edu/works/ambassadorcaffery/media/conspiracy-to-assassinate-caffery
[^5]: Caffery Collection, "Brazil (1937-44)," cafferycollection.wordpress.com/brazil-1937-44/.
[^6]: Jefferson Caffery to Secretary of State, August 15, 1941, telegram no. 5152, FRUS 1941, The American Republics, Vol. VI, Document 534, history.state.gov/historicaldocuments/frus1941v06/d534.
[^7]: Caffery Collection, "Brazil (1937-44)," cafferycollection.wordpress.com/brazil-1937-44/; State Department, Office of the Historian, "Jefferson Caffery," history.state.gov/departmenthistory/people/caffery-jefferson (posting dates and assignments).