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...President Hoover and Secretary of State Stimson held conferences on whether or not to extend diplomatic recognition to Col. Luis Sanchez Cerro who had just turned Dictator-President Augusto Bernardino Leguia of Peru out of office (see p. 22). The question was ticklish. The accepted U. S. doctrine formulated in 1923 by Charles Evans Hughes as Secretary of State, was to recognize only those Latin American governments which come into power by constitutional means. A complication in the Peruvian situation was the fact that the revolutionaries held Commander Harold Grow, U. S. citizen, commander of the Leguia air forces...
...many a year a bust of kinetic little Dictator President Augusto Bernardino Leguia has stood in Lima's Governmental Palace bearing the clarion inscription NO FIRMO! ("I Will Not Sign!") This is a reference to the oft-told tale of how, on an occasion since commemorated as Character Day, he refused to sign his own abdication when threatened with death (TIME, Sept 1). The memorial still stood last week, when a hasty paintbrush edited the inscription to YA HA FIRMADO! ("Now he has signed...
News came to President Leguia that rebels had gained control of the departments of Arequipa, Puno and Cuzco. Announced the Leguia government...
Revolt spread quickly. Other garrisons and university students joined. But President Leguia, outwardly unperturbed, went as has been his Sunday custom for years to the St. Beatriz racetrack. Lima's chief of police skedaddled. The cabinet resigned. President Leguia's "appropriate steps" broke into a run. At a midnight conference he appointed a new cabinet of military friends. Colonel Gonzales of the civil guard broke into the room, declared that cabinet unsatisfactory to his insurgents...
President Leguia: 'T am disposed to bow to any decision of armed forces. . . . Now those who take over the power will see the bitter difficulties of government." General Manuel Maria Ponce took com mand of the revolutionary junta. President Leguia sent an intimate, con soling message to his three daughters dis mayed at Chosica, a resort 30 miles from Lima. His two sons and he entered a swift motor car, sped to Callao, boarded Peru's other cruiser, Almirante Gran, sailed for Panama, where he had prudently arranged passage for Europe on a commercial boat...