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...President Lieut.-Colonel Sanchez Cerro had pinned Edward of Wales with Peru's Order of the Sun, was pinned in return with the Grand Cross of the Order of the British Empire. Then he was almost immediately overthrown. As he prepared to sail away from Peru last week in regal style (promising to be back in three months), yet another revolution popped...
...Southern Revolution" at Arequipa (TIME, March 2). No. 2 was the "Naval Coup," when transports loaded with troops to quell the "Southern Revolution" were held up by their battleship escorts and President Sanchez Cerro was forced by navy officers to resign (TIME, March 9). No. 3 last week was the "Military Coup...
...Lima fiery little Provisional President Luis Sanchez Cerro thought the troops were on their way to crush the revolt at Arequipa (TIME, March 2), proud "Queen City of the South...
Gradually the hunch grew that revolting Arequipa was the horse to back. Presently Navy officers had a talk with Col. Sanchez Cerro, told him that only a single regiment in Lima remained loyal to his regime. He resigned, moved from the presidential palace into a hotel, loudly cheered by a handful of friends. "I only wanted to save my country," he explained. "I had no political ambition...
Head of the new government, a stop-gap affair patched up in Lima until Arequipa could be heard from, was, last week, Chief Justice Ricardo Leoncio Elias of Peru's Supreme Court. So devoid of ambition is Col. Sanchez Cerro that less than a month ago he announced that "by unanimous solicitation of the people" he would be the only candidate at Peru's next presidential election...