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Arthur Gardner (1889–1967) was a United States foreign diplomat and American ambassador to Cuba 1953-1957. Gardner was a close confidant of President Dwight D. Eisenhower and was also strongly pro-Batista. Gardner fought in World War I, and worked for the War Production Board during World War II.
Arthur Gardner (1889–1967) Non-career appointee. State of Residence: Michigan. Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary (Cuba) Appointed: May 28, 1953. Presentation of Credentials: October 16, 1953. Termination of Mission: Left post on June 16, 1957.
Arthur Gardner, the American Ambassador to Cuba, referred to Castro as a communist terrorist and [so] he was replaced by Earl E.T. Smith, who, instead of being briefed by Gardner was briefed by Herbert Matthews.
PALM BEACH, Fla., April 1l (AP)--Arthur Gardner, who served as Ambassador to Cuba during the first Eisenhower Administration, died in his sleep today in Good Samaritan Hospital of heart...
Ambassador Arthur Gardner wrote in 1956, thought of only “in terms of fun, rum and nightclubs.”1 Among the many changes wrought by the revolution was to change the way the world thought about Cuba, to change too the ways that Cubans thought about themselves and about their place in the world.
The second Eisenhower administration has just begun, and Matthews encouraged Dulles to accept the pro forma resignation of Arthur Gardner as ambassador to Cuba, even though Gardner had gone directly to President Eisenhower to ask to stay on.
“I was the father of the BRAC,” Arthur Gardner, the U.S. Ambassador to Cuba from 1953 to 1957, told me in 1962. Also in the 1950’s, Latin American radicals took notice of the CIA’s involvement in a coup d’état that toppled Colonel Jacobo Arbenz’s nationalist, but communistsupported, government in Guatemala.
