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...covers the period between Mr. Midshipman Hornblower (1950) and the high tides of action in Captain Horatio Hornblower (1939). It takes the young officer on a raiding expedition to the West Indies. A few days out, the captain goes mad, and has to be straitjacketed in quarters. Off Santo Domingo, the Renown runs aground as a Spanish fortress pounds her with red-hot cannonballs, but the "uncontrollable vigour" of young Hornblower saves the day. At his suggestion, a broadside fired at the fort jars the ship loose from the sucking sands; a night attack reduces the fort itself...
Soon, as the first robin raises Santo Domingo on the gladsome return to northern climes, the lichened Gothic structures that line the still leafless boulevards shed their study oaken shutters, much as a yearling copperhead sheds its skin...
...integration of philosophy and play is attempted by setting up one person as the personification of an Idea. Alex Minotis, playing Domingo Alvero, is a South American dictator who exists on the belief that the robust man, the forceful man, can carry out his idea through totalitarian force. There are two other ideas involved in the play: first, that Alvero's is definitely wrong, that progress should be achieved by another process, and secondly, the present American ideal of democracy...
Kudos for a brave, succinct July 30 report of Santo Domingo groaning under Dictator Trujillo. I was in Port-au-Prince in 1938 when I heard of the incredible butchery of innocent Haitians ... I viewed the remains of hundreds of slain men, women and children at the uncharted Haiti-Santo Domingo border...
...have cleared up something that troubled me no end when I read the paid notices of the increased distribution of wealth and progress in Santo Domingo these days. I feared that might, having firmly seated itself, could displace democracy. Never...