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Switzerland, traditional sanctuary for Europe's political refugees, has locked the door. The Federal Council has issued new instructions, announced that henceforth "foreigners unworthy of asylum because of despicable acts or of their activities or attitudes violating Swiss interests are in no case to be admitted...
...Government?" "I lament," replied the Dictator. "I shall inform my Government," said Thurston, "that you lament." Reports of this move convinced the Salvadorian people that the U.S. stood at their side, corrected the bad impression the Ambassador made during an earlier, unsuccessful military revolt by refusing to give asylum to enemies of Martinez...
...follow the stresses of every great war, lead to actual world revolution. . . . He will never commit suicide-he hasn't the guts and our proper treatment of him, if we can catch him in time, is to certify him and put him away in a not too luxurious asylum for criminal lunatics. And forget about...
...Graveyard. One casualty of the revolt was U.S. popularity. While the fighting was still going on, Colonel Tito Calvo, a rebel leader, drove up to the U.S. Embassy in a tank. He asked for Ambassador Walter Thurston, pleaded the ancient right of asylum. Thurston correctly told him that the U.S. recognized no such right. After the Colonel was seized and shot, Salvadorians blamed the U.S. for his death...
There were good diplomatic reasons. The U.S. had never signed the Montevideo Treaty of 1933 which recognized the right of asylum, long traditional in many Latin American countries, but now outmoded in most of the world. Salvadorians, chock-full of U.S. democratic propaganda, did not understand the refusal. They took it as one more example of U.S. support for dictators...