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Missing Witness. One witness did not appear at the trial. In Bucaramanga, Colombia, on the night before he was to board a plane for the U.S. to testify, Arturo Regueros Peralta, a member of Colombia's Congress, publisher of the liberal newspaper El Comunero, was shot. The pro-Nazi section of Colombia's press said it was suicide. Dispatches from Colombia reported it was murder...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WAR & PEACE: Propaganda Trial | 8/4/1941 | See Source »

Publisher Regueros Peralta dropped Transocean Service when he began to suspect it was doctoring U.S. news. Transocean offered to subsidize El Comunero with cash and discounts on newsprint, if Sr. Regueros Peralta would continue the service. He refused...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WAR & PEACE: Propaganda Trial | 8/4/1941 | See Source »

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