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"If aggressors want to see their beards and brains flying like butterflies, let them approach the shores of the Dominican Republic," warned Dictator Rafael Leonidas Trujillo. A pair of Cuba-based rebel invasion forces-one of 63 men arriving by C46 at the mountain-ringed, mid-island town of Constanza...
Frequently the authors hold up a little flag bearing the legend: "See, we can underestimate dangers and be optimistic, too." But recurrently they hark back to a theme which Douglass Cater recorded as part of a 1946 address by Joseph Alsop to the Signet Society. At that time, "the older...
Vacationing in the Caribbean, TIME Associate Editor George G. Daniels spent three days in the Dominican Republic, where Dictator Rafael Leonidas Trujillo is tensely on guard against any attack by Caribbean revolutionaries. His report:
Only real winner: Dominican Republican Dictator Rafael Leonidas Trujillo, who has a firm precedent for appealing to the OAS if and when Cuban rebels try to help overthrow him.
¶ Claimed "the Caribbean is ours." Answered Dominican Dictator Rafael Leonidas Trujillo: Cuba's "aggressors" had better stay out of the Dominican Republic "unless they want to see their beards and brains flying about like butterflies."