Word: lende
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...long rainy season drew to a close last week, troops of El Salvador's Dictator Osmin Aguirre y Salinas, using Lend-Lease planes, bombed and strafed 1,000 shabby rebels back over the Guatemalan border. In Guatemala, meanwhile, the people celebrated their successful revolution (TIME, Oct. 30) by turning out in masses to vote in their first honest presidential election. These were just the high lights in Central America's recent unrest...
...revolution had swept Central America for nine months - not only in Salvador but in Honduras, Nicaragua and Guatemala. The military rulers who survived the revolutionary purge killed, tortured, imprisoned hundreds of men & women, drove thousands into exile. The people continued to fight back with guerrilla warfare, bombs, strikes, captured Lend-Lease equipment, pamphlets - and even an underground radio...
...Influence. Then World War II cut the land of the blue volcanoes from its European markets, brought it more strongly into the U.S. political sphere of influence. For security reasons the U.S. made friends with the modern caciques, granted them big loans, including Lend-Lease arms. Inflation swelled like a tumor. But Lend-Lease generosity made Franklin Roosevelt so popular with the dictators that, when Wendell Willkie ran against him, a nephew of Carias Andino asked bewilderedly: "Why doesn't Roosevelt have him shot...
...speak freely, live decently. But when the revolution broke, these U.S. well-wishers were disillusioned. U.S. embassies, which seemed to many Central Americans to exist chiefly to protect business interests, were embarrassed by the Four Freedoms propaganda. The State Department declared a "nonintervention" policy which was heavily weighted by Lend-Lease to favor the dictators...
...Ruth has the straight Broadway virtues: smooth casting and direction (by Moss Hart), a lively charting of every navigable foot of plot, and a family album full of action shots and funny poses. Basically the characters are all tintypes, and the play uses anything that will get a laugh, lend a twist or bring down a curtain. Some of them bring down the house as well...