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While Dictator Maximiliano Hernandez Martinez was fighting the "civil disobedience" of his people (TIME, May 22), the death of a U.S. boy provided the final push to topple the tyrant from power. At the height of the civil revolution, 17-year-old Joseph Wright (son of a U.S. father, a Salvadorian mother) was talking with friends on a street of strike-bound San Salvador. In obedience to a police command, they dispersed. But one policeman fired, killed Joseph instantly...
Theosophist's End Firecrackers popped, sirens screamed in El Salvador last week as hated Theosophist-Dictator. Maximiliano Hernández Martinez resigned the Presidency, fled to Guatemala. Said Martinez (who has slain his thousands): "The curtain has fallen. I have played my last chess game. I shall devote my life to agriculture and spiritual activity in Theosophy...
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...
This week Maximiliano Hernandez Martinez conferred with his anxious cabinet. Twelve years, five months after he seized power, the Dictator agreed to "deposit the Presidency" in the hands of others...
...Dictator Maximiliano Hernández Martínez was sunbathing when the revolt began. But he was not caught entirely off guard. His pervasive Gestapo had jailed opposition leaders and other citizens who objected a few weeks ago when he prolonged his tenure until 1949 and tightened his already arbitrary rule...