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Driven in state to the Presidential Palace, General Sandino was asked to stay all night. President Juan Bautista Sacasa used to be a general. When he laid down his arms at the U. S.'s behest, his subordinate, Sandino, refused to do likewise, fought on, always declaring that he would stop fighting if and when the Marines were withdrawn. Before going to bed Sandino and Sacasa had a thoroughgoing talk, came to terms which they signed at midnight: 1) The undefeated Sandinistas will peacefully present their arms to the Sacasa Government within three months; 2) Sandinistas who present arms...
...week, partly because of Mexican suspicions that the Nicaraguan Government has been a set-up propped by U. S. Marines. Now that the props are gone, Mexico, according to El National, may soon find it possible to recognize the 100% Nicaraguan Government of newly inaugurated Nicaraguan President Dr. Juan Bautista Sacasa...
...Pacific port in which lay the transports Henderson and Antares creaked with the shuffle of 1790 brown shoes. Behind lay six years of bush warfare. Behind lay 20 officers and 115 men killed in action. Behind lay Revolutionist Augustino Sandino still at large. Behind lay President Juan Bautista Sacasa inaugurated day before with President Hoover's "warmest good wishes for a very successful administration." Behind lay one of the most controversial episodes in all U. S. foreign policy. Not left behind were 16 native girls whom 16 Marines had taken to wife...
Coffee is down. So are Nicaraguan bananas, hardwoods, sugar cane. The result was a near-record registration and a landslide victory over Conservative former President Adolfo Diaz by the Liberal candidate. Dr. Juan Bautista Sacasa. Along toward 3 a. m., when his triumph was conceded. President-elect Sacasa modestly declared. "This is a victory for Liberalism...
...freak Constitutional amendment (passed at his behest) he is Commander-in-Chief of the Army and is not responsible to the President of Venezuela. Presumably by General Gomez' order last week the Venezuelan Congress demanded, received and accepted by unanimous vote the resignation of President Juan Bautista Perez, elected only two years ago for a seven-year term...