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There appears on p. 23 of your April 9 issue of TIME magazine an article under the heading of Foreign News which sets out an interview with one Juan Leguia. As a Peruvian and as the son of Eugenio Larrabure, former vice president of Peru, serving during Augusto B. Leguia's first term, I want to take most emphatic exception to the slanderous and malicious statements which your article attributes to this person...
...lounge of Manhattan's Phi Gamma Delta Club last week newshawks found a sleek-haired young man who was once the second most important man in Peru. Straining a whiskey-&-soda through his enormous teeth, Juan Leguia told a colorful story of three years' political imprisonment, and unwittingly revealed to his listeners why there are so many revolutions in Latin America...
...Juan Leguia's white-mustached little old father Augusto had been President of Peru for eleven consecutive years. His family, pure Spanish, had lived in Peru since the days of the viceroys. All their loyalties, according to Juan Leguia, were for the family. Peru existed for the benefit of the Leguias and its people were dogs, to be ruled kindly but forcibly as a gentleman would govern any other kennel. Juan Leguia was prepared for his inheritance in the chaste corridors of St. Mark's School, Southborough, Mass. The family's greatest pride is the fact that...
...people of Peru, weary of the Leguias, rose up under a red-eyed little wildcat of a man named Lieut.-Colonel Luis Sanchez Cerro and overthrew the government. The Leguias were thrown into jail, charged with a list of peculations long as their pedigree, a list that reached all the way to Washington where it was testified before a Senate committee that the Manhattan firm of J. & W. Seligman & Co. had paid Juan Leguia a "fee" of $415,000 for the privilege of lending $100,000,000 to Peru. All those bonds are now in default...
...jail the Leguias stayed until onetime President Augusto was taken ill and died and Son Juan had spent nearly two years in solitary. Sucking on his drink last week Juan Leguia gave his version of the revolution and his imprisonment...