UK Cigar Scene Magazine October Issue 10 | Page 21

Cigar History from Tobacco October 1940
Havana Cuba
A member of the firm that manufactures the Partagas and Ramon Allones cigar brands Mr. Ramon Cifuentes
Toriello of Cifuentes Pego y Ca has been elected president for 1940 to 1942 of the union of manufacturers of cigars
and cigarettes of Cuba
Mr Cifuentes is a young businessman well up in the problems now facing the industry going to the European
situation. Doctor Gonzalo R. Azallano is to act as delegate of the Union to the National tobacco commission he is
general manager of the Por Larranaga cigar factory.

Will Hitler pay?

New Schedules

Commercial treaties for the disposal of Havana Leaf
and manufactured tobacco already arranged with Italy
and Chile are to be followed by another now on the
way with the Argentine Republic. The state department
has claimed from the Berlin government purchase or
return of a shipment of coffee exported to France last
year. The shipment 800 bags of high grade cuban coffee
was shop shipped in the German steamer Lubeck to
Le Havre in August 1939, consigned to a French firm.
As the shipment was made before the start of the war
and French ports are now in control of the Nazis it is
explained, it is up to the Reich to pay for the coffee or
return the shipment to Cuba.

There is talk again of rationing of tobacco, and that
indeed may come, but for the moment manufacturers,
who have been withdrawing only 90 per cent of the
leaf they withdrew from bond in August and September
last year, are doing the only rationing of supplies of the
manufactured article, nor are they all doing it.
As to this there is still some uncertainty, and we
receive enquiries from dealers who, for instance, find
themselves facing vastly bigger demands than a year
ago from men in new camps in their neighbourhoods.
Manufacturers and wholesalers are busy working our
fresh schedules of distribution to allow for the fact that
coast areas, partly evacuated, have sent their smoking
public to many different districts. Distribution will right
itself, but it will take a little time.

The Smoke Gallery
By A Genial Gossip
At Windsor, at the funeral of King Edward the seventh,
a cigarette created a swift sensation. Stepping out of the
Royal train a visiting monarch forgetfully lit a cigarette.
In a moment or two he was conscious of his error in
taste and decorum and put it out. Only just in time; a
European Queen was striding towards him intent on
snatching it from his lips. That distinguish man the
Dean of Windsor never smoked a cigarette, I notice, but
how he loves a cigar.

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