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England's popular new stamp does not clearly establish precedent. In February 1935 the Dominican Republic issued a photostamp of her Dictator-President Rafael Leonidas Trujillo Molina at the same time that she changed the name of her capital city from Santo Domingo to Trujillo...
...bloody, exhausting, three-year Gran Chaco War ended eleven months ago. The victorious Paraguayan officers led by War Hero Colonel Rafael Franco seized the Paraguayan Government last February (TIME, March 2). Last week the losing Bolivian officers, led by Lieut. Colonel German Busch, seized the Bolivian Government in La Paz without firing a shot, kicked out the Army stooge they had put in six months before the War ended, pacific, beet-nosed President José Luis Tejada Sorzana...
Said President Rafael Martinez Nadal of the Puerto Rican Senate, head of the Republican (Statehood) Party: "The bill puts a premium on assassination of American officials by Nationalists. Because one official was slain by the Nationalists Tydings would give us our independence in four years. If the Nationalists kill three or four others he would give it to us in 24 hours. . . . The bill is a triple betrayal of the Puerto Rican people...
...General Rafael Navarro and three policemen came into my bedroom at midnight where I was reading. I was not surprised. I said, 'I am at your orders.' General Navarro said solemnly, 'By order of the President of the Republic you are under arrest. . . .' I got out of bed and said, 'I consider myself your prisoner. I have no forces at my disposal and I do not need them. You may take me in an airplane or before a firing squad. . . .' General Navarro replied, 'I request you to prepare to accompany...
...uncensored mail or foreign newspapers. All they know is what they read in Paraguayan papers whose entire editorial staffs have been chased out and replaced by audacious, cheerful young Army men who idolize the country's great Chaco war-hero and new Dictator, chubby-faced young Col. Rafael Franco (TIME, March 2). Last week, fascinated by government as a child is fascinated by a new toy, the young Colonel began issuing fundamental Constitutional proclamations right & left...