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Just one month after Cuba's bloodless coup (see col. 3), Bolivia exploded last week in bloody revolution. Revolutions are no novelty in the remote Andean republic, which has averaged better than one a year since its liberation from Spain in 1825. Men the world over remember its 1946 rebellion, and the photographs of Dictator Gualberto Villarroel hanging from a lamppost (which is still a tourist attraction in La Paz). Last week, the heirs of Villarroel, fanatical members of the totalitarian Movement of National Revolution (M.N.R.), clawed their way back...
Batista is back. The tough, smiling ex-sergeant, who bossed Cuba through eleven years of "disciplined democracy," this week toppled President Carlos Prio's constitutional regime from power in an almost bloodless army revolution...
...year ago, Luisa María wrote to Pretender Don Juan, urging him to land on the sea coast of northwestern Spain and march on Madrid: "My Lord, Napoleon's march from Antibes to Paris will look like a Boy Scout parade compared to your triumphant and bloodless march through Spain . . . Not one person will stand in your way. My Lord, your moment has come. Spain is waiting . . ." Even the country's most ardent male monarchists were appalled. Said one: "Luckily it was a letter and not a plea supported by her presence and personality that reached...
...lost their post-Revolutionary struggle with the Bolsheviks. As a delegate to the First (and only) Soviet Congress, he was in a good position to view the political trend. "Things were going the wrong way," he meditates sadly. "I could see that it was not to be a bloodless revolution. Why I was not shot I shall never know; the profound reason, I guess, is that I am just lucky...
Roosevelt also charged that Eliot was "Germanizing" the teaching staff. Roosevelt's "men" could not be turned out "if we don't have the instructors themselves men, and not merely bloodless students...