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...neither hide nor retreat").* General Garibaldi resents being called a soldier of fortune, explains that the only time he ever fought against his convictions was in the Boer War, when he joined a mounted column under Kitchener. At 23 he was leading 3,000 Venezuelan rebels against Dictator Cipriano Castro, held the title of Citizen-Colonel-&-Commander -of -the -Artillery -of -the -Army-of-the-Orient. Faced with mutiny, he shot every tenth man in one company...
...cattleman, and the son of a cattleman, Juan Vincente Gomez first appeared on the Venezuelan political scene 43 years ago when at the age of 35 he came tearing out of the Andean foothills at the head of a regiment of hard-riding gauchos to support with his neighbor, Cipriano Castro, the government of President Aldueza Palacio in one of the country's innumerable revolutions. They guessed wrong. The successful revolutionists exiled Gomez & Castro. Seven years later another revolution left Cipriano Castro President of Venezuela and General Gomez Vice President and Minister of War. President Castro's vices...
Though he has been a shining improvement over his predecessor of 25 years ago, the debauched Cipriano Castro, there are many things about Dictator Gomez difficult to align with Nordic ideas of civil virtue. The old General is not only the richest man in Venezuela, but for all practical purposes owns the country. It has been charged that no project, from cattle breeding to oil leases, can exist without payment of a personal tribute to El Benemerito. All attempts to overthrow his government are instantly and brutally suppressed. Venezuela's pride, her highway system, has been built largely...
This year the final committee contained no great international figure. Last year Henri Matisse was on the jury and his good friend Pablo Ruiz Picasso won first prize (TIME, Oct. 20, 1930). This year, beside the U.S. members, foreign artists on the jury were the Fascist Painter Cipriano Efisio Oppo, Britain's Paul Nash, France's Henry Eugene Le Sidaner. And for the first time since 1923 first prize went to a U. S. painter. Better, first prize went to one of the 30 unknown who had not been invited. Philadelphia, defeated in the World's Series...
Neither Theodore Roosevelt nor Kaiser Wilhelm II seemed to have much success in taming Dictator Castro. Also a series of British, French, and Dutch naval blockades of the Venezuelan coast, or parts of it, did not bring Dictator-President Cipriano Castro perceptibly to reason. He started out in 1900 by springing a successful coup d'etat, and grandiloquently announcing to the world that he proposed to unite Venezuela with Colombia and Ecuador in a league "against encroachment by Yankees or Europeans." Eight years later the catalog of his unparalleled audacities included: 1) repudiating Venezuelan bonded debts to European investors...