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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Honduran Ambassador Julian R. Caceres presided. At his right sat Under Secretary of State Edward R. Stettinius, known to the Latins for his toothy smile as El Hombre Diente-The Man Tooth. The Man Tooth listened to an interpreter repeat the Argentine proposal, smiled a tablewide smile. Caceres said copies of the proposal would be sent to home Governments. The members nodded, did not discuss the matter further. They re-elected Cordell Hull president of the Board and adjourned...
...Little El Salvador was the first Central American country to use passive resistance to depose a dictator. Last May General Maximiliano Hernández Martinez was ousted by a sit-down strike (brazos caidos, literally: arms dangling). When a military clique/headed by Colonel Osmin Aguirre y Salinas, clamped a new dictatorship on the country last week, Salvadorans began to dangle their arms again in a dangerous...
...Aguirre's Government unconstitutional. With this open incite ment to revolution, Chief Justice Miguel Tomas Molina fled to the Guatemalan Embassy. Into Guatemala, which last week ousted Dictator Federico Ponce in a lively revolution of its own, fled Doctor Jorge Sol Castellanos, President of the Credit Banks of El Salvador. All the country's banks closed their doors...
Hundreds of farmers stayed away from market - and El Salvador is a big tropical farm : a farmers' strike paralyzes the country. Opinion grew that Colonel Aguirre would soon lose his fight against the passive people. But Colonel Osmin Aguirre y Salinas rattled his Lend-Lease armor, declared that Salvadorans who joined the passive resistance movement would be shot...
...revolutionary mood spread to neighboring El Salvador, where two opposing factions both battled Government troops in an attempt to move their candidates into the President's office. President Andres Ignacio Menéndez resigned promptly "for health reasons" and was replaced by Colonel Osmin Aguirre y Salinas, who represented a third faction. Also from El Salvador came word that revolution had broken out in Honduras...