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...illiterate Paraguayan veterans, the shining fact was that Corps Commander Colonel Rafael Franco, 39, had led them victoriously in person to the very border of Bolivia proper. Something seemed wrong when their commanding officer, General José Felix Estigarribia, marched them home to poverty-stricken Paraguay, when Foreign Minister Luis Riart signed a modest peace protocol with Bolivia, when the Paraguayan Congress approved it and when President Eusebio Ayala ordered the Paraguayan Army demobilized and Bolivian prisoners returned to Bolivia. The Army had won the war; the politicians were throwing away the victory. Last month General Estigarribia charged Colonel Franco...
Captain Blood (Warner) seems to be Warner's answer to Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's Mutiny on the Bounty. Whatever the literary merits of Rafael Sabatini's florid novels, they make excellent cinema fare when served with the crispness and gusto of Captain Blood...
...tightest little tyranny in the Caribbean Sea, through a heavy fog of censorship, fortnight ago leaked news of trouble in the Dominican Republic. The brisk little tyrant, Dictator-President Rafael Leonidas Trujillo Molina, had planned a year and a half vacation in the U. S. and Europe, his first trip off his island, presumably in company with his lush mistress, Donna Maria. Trujillo planned to stop in Washington to renew the 17-month moratorium on the $16,000,000 debt the Republic owes U. S. bondholders. Meanwhile his Minister to the U. S., Rafael Brache, was doing the preliminary spadework...
Last week observers could make what they liked out of the following facts. Last fortnight Trujillo called home Minister Rafael Brache. Defiantly Brache resigned, stayed safely in Washington. Trujillo hinted that he might take his vacation, passing on the power to his brother Virgilio and to his No. 1 toady, Vice President Peynado, but he might take it on his hacienda, Fundacion, just outside the capital. In a superb stroke of dictating, he ordered through the puppet Assembly a resolution calling on him please not to leave the Dominican Republic. Next day he topped this by having himself recommended...
...open casinos at San Sebastian and Formentor. When both his casinos were raided, he asked for his money back. A parliamentary commission investigated his charges, reported last week with gravity that they had reason to believe that Lerroux's Nephew Aurelio, his onetime Minister of the Interior Rafael Salazar Alonso and half a dozen other Radicals had taken Straus's money. Old Lerroux, his white mustaches trembling with rage, replied that it was a fiendish Monarchist plot to split Spain's Centre coalition. Mexican Straus could not be found last week anywhere but, amid Monarchist chortles, Premier...