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...Party, Dictator Rafael Leonidas Trujillo Molina announced last week that he would not seek a fifth term in next year's presidential election. But, he added, "my presence shall not be lacking in the solution of any fundamental problem." Dominicans knew what that meant: Generalissimo Trujillo, self-styled Benefactor of the Fatherland, would still be watching...
...before, Trujillo's soldiers butchered thousands of Haitians who had settled on Dominican land near the Haitian border. The massacre made the regime so unpopular with other American governments that Trujillo decided to "retire" for a while, installed a puppet President for the 1938-42 term. * But the Benefactor's dictatorial grip remained as tight as ever...
...some ways, the Benefactor has taken good care of his personal estate, a country of 2,212,000 people. He has boosted farm production, introduced some industry (e.g., cement, textiles), built roads, piers, hotels. The results, however, are by no means as splendid as the Dominican Information Service's full-page ads in U.S. newspapers and magazines make them out to be. The average Dominican farmer remains wretchedly poor...
...display board on which was tacked a postcard which read: "You are certainly the most extraordinary virtuoso since Paganini ... If you can stop the abominable jazzers' practice of playing the saxophone as con sordino [i.e., muted] and as disorderly as possible, you will be a great benefactor as well as a great player...
...Great Benefactor." Army instructors told Wang that the imperialistic aggressors were overrunning Korea and, if not stopped, would march into Manchuria and burn the villages. His knowledge of Stalin was vague, but the army told him that Stalin was a great benefactor...