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Acción Democrática. Although young, Army officers had apparently inspired most of the fighting, the men behind the revolution were chubby, liberal Rómulo Betancourt, new Provisional President, and shy, famed novelist Rómulo Gallegos Freire. Their Democratic Action Party was the political instrument...
...Betancourt and Gallegos had been exiles in the days of tyrannical dictator Juan Vicente Gómez. They had returned to Venezuela to help prod President Eleázar López Contreras along the path of measured democracy. For a time they had gotten along with his successor, Medina. But they had broken with Medina when he failed 1) to tackle the nation's economic problems squarely, 2) to change the constitution so that the President could be elected by direct suffrage...
This week President Betancourt said that of course he weald not be so foolish as to interfere with the country's oil economy. Oil-company spokesmen in Caracas seemed to be happy...
Daniel D. Barker '42, drafted; Nicolas M. Betancourt '45, joined Cuban armed forces; Thomas P. Brooks, Jr. '45, taking airplane mechanics course at Roosevelt Field; Edward A. Callanan, enlisted; Warren M. Cannon '42, taking IA course at Business School; Charles F. Choate '43, enlisted; Robert U. Duggan '44, joined Air Corps...
...since 1894 between Juarez, Mexico, and El Paso, Tex., on the silty ever-changing banks of the Rio Grande-but not enough to wash the word chamizal from long Mexican memories. In Mexico City's Chamber of Deputies last week Deputy Professor (of the National University) José Betancourt Pérez rose to spout: "Mexico cannot believe in the Good Neighbor policy if the United States does not comply with its obligations in the Chamizal case...