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From El Salvador, whose Theosophist-Dictator Maximiliano Hernández Martinez suppressed a bloody revolt a few weeks ago (TIME, April 17), came the first news of the aftermath, and of new trouble for the Dictator...
What Chicago Art Institute first-nighters saw was hardly pleasant. Hanging in six main galleries were some 800 brutal black & white engravings depicting assassinations, street accidents, atrocities, nightmares, scandals and conflagrations. Eufemio Martinez Murdering His Sister showed a frenzied, popeyed peon withdrawing a knife from the neck of a screaming woman. In Collision Between a Streetcar and a Hearse, a small, gay trolley car was seen crashing into a funeral cart, stopping just short of running over a corpse in the splintered coffin. Zapatista Deathshead, a grisly political cartoon, chronicles Zapata's rebellion against Diaz (1910). There were revolting...
...Without Sleep. Martinez still takes council with his "invisible legions," calls himself "the Autodidact" (self-taught), and gives frequent radio lectures on anything from "applied psychoanalysis" to sociology. He knows little about such subjects and speaks in what his detractors call "basic Spanish." But his undulating words have a certain hypnotic effect upon his simpler subjects. Some of them believe that he can make himself invisible and eavesdrop upon their secret, often rebellious thoughts. The President does not sleep well, paces the Palace at night or wanders around the heavily guarded grounds. Many Salvadorans believe that he is haunted...
...MARTINEZ Washington...
During the ceremony, the jefe received 35 grizzled, barefooted veterans of the war of 1870 on the Palace balcony. Their leader, perky Sergeant Major Victoriano Martinez, shouted patriotic praise at Morinigo, called him the new Supremo* who would lead Paraguay back to glory...