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...York, police reported that they had found quantities of Communist literature in the Brooklyn apartment of Rafael Miranda, one of the four would-be assasins...
President Stenio Vincent, a poet-nationalist elected on an oust-the-U.S. platform when the Marines supervised an honest election in 1930, picked Lieut. Magloire for his aide-de-camp. But Vincent's government stumbled in 1937, when the Dominican Republic's Dictator Rafael Leonidas Trujillo, in a moment of rage, let his forces massacre an estimated 15,000 Haitian cane-cutters who had crossed the border to seek harvest work. The Haitian President settled for an indemnity of $550,000 from Trujillo. With murdered Haitians thus officially priced at $37 each, Haiti soured on Vincent...
When Director General of Police Rafael Hierro appeared on a balcony and tried to speak, the crowd yelled: "Assassin!" Infuriated because neither press nor radio had mentioned the riots, the students scoured downtown Madrid for copies of Arriba and made bonfires of them, howling for "freedom of the press"-a concept whose meaning had suddenly become clear to them. They stormed Radio Madrid in an attempt to broadcast their complaints...
...since the days when Red Grange was roaming the gridirons has ex-Sports-writer Westbrook Pegler found much to admire in men on the public stage. But last week Hearst Columnist Pegler, on a trip to the Dominican Republic (pop. 2,200,000), found a new hero: Dictator Rafael Leonidas Trujillo. In a series on Trujillo and the country he rules, Pegler wrote...
...Rafael L. Trujillo is one of the great men of his time in the Western Hemisphere ... I tell you the so-called dictatorship of Rafael Trujillo in this island fortress against Communism is much better than ours in one particular . . . Trujillo is much more sensible, practical and helpful to his people than Roosevelt...