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...majesté for the Italian consul, Amadeo Barletta, to break the tobacco monopoly of the Dominican Republic's Dictator Rafael Leonidas Trujillo. It was lèse majesté against Benito Mussolini, a greater dictator than Trujillo, when Trujillo clapped Barletta into jail and confiscated his tobacco company on dubious charges of an assassination plot (TIME, May 13). Last week a third and greater act of lèse majesté was in the making, as Mussolini moved to get his consul out of jail...
...honest, efficient William E. Pulliam, U. S. Customs Receiver General, whose job it is to collect Dominican customs against the Republic's $16,000,000 debt to U. S. bondholders. The other was the Italian Consul, Amadeo Barletta...
Bumptious Amadeo Barletta, who is also General Motors' sales manager in the Republic, had broken Trujillo's tobacco monopoly with a U. S.-controlled company. Month ago Trujillo lost patience. He charged Barletta with conspiring to assassinate him, clapped Barletta into jail, canceled his consular credentials by decree, passed a law confiscating the property of conspirators and, though the Dominican Constitution forbids retroactive laws, confiscated Barletta's Dominican Tobacco Co. He also confiscated an automobile of Barletta's, gave it to his Chief of Police...
Benito Mussolini, Barletta's boss, demanded last week Barletta's release, reimbursement for all losses as a result of his imprisonment and a $200,000 indemnity. The U. S. owners of Dominican Tobacco Co. were scuttling about Washington prodding the State Department to protest. Last week some Washington observers thought the State Department might use the Barletta incident to demonstrate President Roosevelt's "good neighbor" concept of the 112-year-old Monroe Doctrine - i.e., might not only refuse all requests to crack down on Trujillo but permit Mussolini to crack down himself, if he can. Thus...