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Still among the missing last week was Jesús de Galindez, the Columbia University lecturer who disappeared without a trace in Manhattan one night last March (TIME, April 2). Missing, too, was any solid evidence to fortify the widely publicized charge that the Dominican Republic's long-armed Dictator Rafael Leonidas Trujillo had Galindez rubbed out for writing a devastating (but still unpublished) 750-page Ph.D. dissertation entitled The Era of Trujillo. And seemingly missing, according to stories printed by the New York Herald Tribune, was about $500,000 that Galindez had collected as the U.S. representative...
Though born in Madrid, far from the rugged Basque region athwart the western Pyrenees, Galindez considered himself a citizen of the short-lived autonomous Basque republic abolished by Generalissimo Francisco Franco.* As an exile in the Dominican Republic (1939-46) and the U.S., Galindez kept in touch with the Paris "government" headed by Jose de Aguirre, first and only President of the Basque republic. Aguirre himself appointed Galindez as the official Basque representative and fund raiser in the U.S. In his half-yearly statements filed with the foreign agent section of the U.S. Department of Justice, Galindez reported taking...
Asked about the balance last week, President Aguirre momentarily darkened Galindez' reputation by declaring that the exile government had received only $500,000 or so from him. But in a later interview Aguirre explained that Galindez sent a large part of the funds he collected to the Basque underground in Spain and to various Basque welfare organizations scattered around the globe. "Every cent was accounted for," Aguirre insisted...
...striking fact stood out in the flurry of news about Galindez' fund raising: in the generous U.S. it is entirely possible for an obscure exile to pass the hat for the nonrecognized government of a nonexistent country-and take in a cool million...
...your June 4 article on the vanishing Jesús de Galindez, one well understands that Franklin D. Roosevelt Jr. is not responsible for the disappearance of Galindez; on the other hand, he does work for Rafael Trujillo. Surely it's common knowledge that Trujillo belongs to the most nightmarish category of dictators that kills, tortures, deceives and terrorizes. Mr. Roosevelt Jr. gets $30,000 a year for recommending Trujillo to us. May I ask whether anyone is reminded of 30 pieces of silver...