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...SHADOW OF THE GUILLOTINE (1,077 pp.)-Rafael Sabatini-Houghton Mifilin...
...missing last week was Jesús de Galindez, the Columbia University lecturer who disappeared without a trace in Manhattan one night last March (TIME, April 2). Missing, too, was any solid evidence to fortify the widely publicized charge that the Dominican Republic's long-armed Dictator Rafael Leonidas Trujillo had Galindez rubbed out for writing a devastating (but still unpublished) 750-page Ph.D. dissertation entitled The Era of Trujillo. And seemingly missing, according to stories printed by the New York Herald Tribune, was about $500,000 that Galindez had collected as the U.S. representative of a shadowy Basque...
...your June 4 article on the vanishing Jesús de Galindez, one well understands that Franklin D. Roosevelt Jr. is not responsible for the disappearance of Galindez; on the other hand, he does work for Rafael Trujillo. Surely it's common knowledge that Trujillo belongs to the most nightmarish category of dictators that kills, tortures, deceives and terrorizes. Mr. Roosevelt Jr. gets $30,000 a year for recommending Trujillo to us. May I ask whether anyone is reminded of 30 pieces of silver...
...simmering mystery over the Manhattan disappearance of Jesús de Galindez, scholar, author and bitter enemy of Dominican Dictator Rafael Leonidas Trujillo, boiled up suddenly last week and scalded the political future of Franklin D. Roosevelt Jr., who gets $30,000 a year for representing Dictator Trujillo in New York...
...three weeks-ago President Eisenhower reported: "The Attorney General went after the case as quickly as it arose, went into New York City." Manhattan police, meanwhile, have sifted what one tired cop called "a million" clues. A sample last week was the testimony given a Havana judge by one Rafael ("The Corpse") Soler, who is under indictment for the murder of an anti-Trujillo Dominican exile in Havana last summer. Gangster Soler said that in 1953 a "Trujillo agent" offered him $100,000 to kill Galindez, but he found the job "too risky." The New York police sent...