Word: dominican
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Using the verb "deplore" once more, Acheson aimed it at Dominican Dictator Rafael Leonidas Trujillo, who had just asked his obedient congress for power to declare war on "any nation," i.e., Cuba, which he suspected of sheltering his foes. Said Acheson: "The government deplores the action of the Dominican Republic in having brought up the possibility of the use of armed force for the purpose of 'war.' It is our profound conviction that the use of this term is ... inappropriate...
...statement drew applause from other Latin nations. Even Trujillo's old ally, Nicaraguan Dictator "Tacho" Somoza, spoke up: "Nicaragua knows how to settle its problems with its neighbors through the inter-American peace machinery. It's a shame that the Dominican Republic can't handle its grievances that way." At week's end, Latin diplomats were laying odds that the point would not be lost on lonely Trujillo...
Last week, nevertheless, Suzy married another Brazilian, Antenor Mayrink Veiga, 47, owner of Rio's radio station Mayrink Veiga, proprietor of the Casa Mayrink Veiga (machines, munitions) on Rio's Rua Mayrink Veiga, and sometime husband of the much-married Flor de Oro Trujillo, daughter of the Dominican dictator. Said Suzy: "He's no playboy, but older-just what I need...
...youth, Henri Matisse was enthralled by Giotto's religious frescoes in the Arena Chapel at Padua. But not until last year, at 78, did Matisse himself turn to religious art; then he began work on the little Dominican chapel that he had planned for the town of Vence, in the hills back of Nice. When he has finished, the result may be a 20th Century rival to Giotto's 14th Century work at Padua...
Speaking before the Pan American Society, Acheson restated the State Department's firm opposition to filibustering expeditions like those of the Caribbean Legion against Dominican Dictator Rafael Trujillo. Such plots, he noted, "have in themselves been inconsistent with our common commitments not to intervene in each other's affairs . . ." On the other hand he answered critics of the State Department's prompt recognition of military regimes in Peru and Venezuela. Recognition, he said, "need not be taken to imply approval" either of the regimes or their policies. The U.S. stands firmly for democracy and for non-intervention...