Word: guardia
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...midmorning, shrilling sirens in San Jose brought the people of Costa Rica's capital out into the streets. Just nine days after Costa Rica had disbanded its army, the country had been invaded from Nicaragua by supporters of banished ex-President Rafael Calderon Guardia. Costa Rica's provisional government, headed by Colonel Jose Figueres, called the nation to arms, got set to fight for its life...
...enough, he proceeded to read the rest of the story himself, punctuating its adverse comment with his own remarks. He was happy to appear on TIME's cover and delighted that the issue would be on Nicaraguan newsstands on the 16th anniversary of his assuming command of the Guardia Nacional...
...hardest part of the job was the final editing. To get down to a 45-minute playing time, they had to drop such highlights as Gandhi urging nonresistance, Fiorello La Guardia reading the comics over New York City's station WNYC, and a musical background that was to include such popular songs of the Depression as Brother, Can You Spare a Dime? and Who's Afraid of the Big Bad Wolf...
Somoza no longer had a rival. Within two years he was ready to strike for the top in a revolution that was quick and successful. In 1936 he put a stooge in office, then had himself elected President. Though the Marines had laid down the rule that the Guardia be half Liberal, half Conservative, Tacho kicked out the Conservatives, put his own pals in key spots. In 1939 he got himself elected for eight more years. And he went to Washington...
...such a silly business. Over in the Dominican Republic, Dictator Trujillo brazened it out, elected himself a fourth time. Somoza, on the other hand, found that Leonardo Argüello, the stooge he had got elected, did not intend to be a stooge. Argüello began calling on Guardia officers to declare their loyalty to him. Almost half of them did. Then Argüello overreached himself: he gave Tachito Somoza a dressing down, banished him from the capital. Papa Tacho moved in. Argüello fled to the Mexican embassy, then to Mexico, where he died. Growled Tacho...