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Lawyer Galindez, a sociable Basque bachelor of 40, fought Spain's Generalissimo Francisco Franco and paid the price of defeat in exile, first to France, then, in 1939, to the Dominican Republic. There he took legal advisory and teaching jobs with the government of Dictator Rafael Leonidas Trujillo. As he watched the strongman's methods, his fear and anger grew. By 1946 he was deep in anti-Trujillo underground activity and New York friends got him a visa to come to the U.S. By then a fascination with Trujillo's iron personality and Trujillo's absolute...
...book-cluttered apartment on lower Fifth Avenue, Galindez patiently assembled all the known facts about Generalissimo Trujillo. Most of the research went toward a critical, 750-page dissertation on Trujillo submitted for a Ph.D. degree at Columbia. Galindez also worked on a scathing novel about the strongman, and wrote many an attack on Trujillo in magazine articles and pamphlets published in the U.S. and Mexico...
...Manila, where Dulles announced that the U.S. will build its atomic research center for Asia in the Philippines, he left behind elation and renewed morale. In Taipei and in Seoul he held friendly conferences with Formosa's Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek and with Korea's President Syngman Rhee. In sensitive Japan he carefully went through Japanese immigration procedures, had his passport stamped, and spoke of the "relationship of peace, friendship and cooperation" between Japan...
...pattern that Eisenstein has imposed on it. The pattern is like a dialogue between the liberal Provisional Government and the revolutionary Bolsheviks. At first the pace is slow. Eisenstein shows Kerensky trotting up an endless flight of palace stairs while the titles ("Minister of Navy...and of Army...and Generalissimo...Dictator...")parody his rapid rise to power. With Kerensky in power, the camera darts back and forth from his face to that of a peacock and then to a bust of Napoleon, presenting Kerensky as unequal to his rapidly increasing duties. The revolutionaries are shown, some being taken to prison...
...said the guest of honor, Chinese Ambassador V. K. Wellington Koo, "for its magnificent contribution toward our common cause." And from Formosa there was a cable from Chiang Kaishek, expressing gratitude for the China Club's "continued sympathy and support for our fight against Communist aggression." Added the Generalissimo: "We treasure such friendship and support...