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...Companero Ernesto Guevara," Castro gave only the vaguest hints as to what that status might be. "The enemy has put out many guesses and rumors, sometimes confused, sometimes trying to confuse," said Castro. "Well, in a few days, we are going to read a document by el Compañero Ernesto Guevara that explains his absence during these past months." With that, Castro teased his audience by waving a sheet of paper. "This is the act to which I refer," he said. "Read it! Read it!" pleaded the crowd. "Not now," said Castro...
White House. Watching General MacArthur's homecoming address to Congress, Tony Leviero shrewdly guessed that President Truman might want to publish his side of the foreign policy argument by releasing the secret minutes of the Truman-MacArthur Wake Island meeting. Levi-ero's hunch was right, and he got an exclusive story from the White House that made front pages all over the U.S. (TIME, April...
This suspicion grew into a certainty early this month during a bitter Peronista campaign against Deputy Juan Casella Piñero of the Buenos Aires provincial legislature. Casella, a Radical, had been found guilty of remaining seated during a rising tribute to Argentina's liberator, José de San Martin. The entire Peronista propaganda machine swung into action to have Casella expelled. As Minister of Education, and as chairman of the current Year of San Martin celebrations, Ivanissevich was ordered to schedule one hour of speechmaking in the schools to blot out Casella's insult to the liberator...
...years as a U.S. possession, the island has had three military and 15 civil governors, all presidential appointees. Rexford G. Tugwell was the last mainlander to hold the job, Jesús T. Piñero (1946-48) the first native-born governor...
...choice, New Hampshire's ex-Governor Francis Murphy. From party politicos to the White House went protests about Luis Muñoz Marin's bossism. Harry Truman stood firm; he wanted a native, and Interior Secretary Julius Krug agreed that Sugar Farmer Piñero should be the man. So did most Puerto Ricans...