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Venezuela is the only country in the Western Hemisphere that owes no man anything-it has neither external nor internal debt. Since the death of its bloody, carnal 27-year Dictator Juan Vicente Gómez five years ago, it has also been fortunate in its leader. Like little Guatemala's Jorge Ubico tall, scholarly President Eleazar Lopez Contreras has given the nation a decent, liberal, reformist Government. His term ends next April. Constitutionally, he cannot succeed himself. His people find it hard to imagine that he would attempt to do so by any other means. Fortnight ago elections...
...Menocal who thereupon withdrew his candidacy. Then the remaining opposition parties got together on Dr. Grau, with the understanding that the vice-presidential nomination should go to the ABC (semi-Fascist) candidate, Joaquin Martinez Saenz, that the Republican Action Party's leader, onetime President Miguel Mariano Gómez, should be the nominee for Mayor of Havana, No. 2 political job on the island. But election laws require that each party nominate a full ticket, which later may be "corrected" by withdrawals. All the opposition parties made up their tickets, with the understanding that dummy candidates would withdraw later...
North Americans not only do not share this hero-worship, they probably know less about Bolívar than about any national hero in history. Such ignorance, thinks capable Biographer Rourke (Gómez: Tyrant of the Andes), is a gauge of "a century of misunderstandings and suspicions between the two Americas." A knowledge of Bolívar, he believes, would go far to explain South Americans' history and temperament, particularly their tendency toward dictatorship. For it was that tendency which set Bolívar's main problems, finally wrecked his great dream of a pan-American union...
...portfolios of Public Order, Sanitation and Health. His most potent rival within the Falange, anti-Italian, conservative Raimundo Fernández Cuesta, lost his jobs as Secretary of the Falange and Minister of Agriculture. An even more important scalp was that of Foreign Minister General Count Francisco Gómez Jordana, formerly the strongest Cabinet spokesman of the old Army point of view. The anti-Axis Army, in short, would in future have to confine its remarks to the parade ground, and leave control of Spanish foreign policy to the upstart politicians...
...months of peace, the same pre-war figures kept control of the State and the Army. No new military reputations were made on the Nationalist side of the war. Colorless, efficient General Franco was a familiar face in Spain long before the war, as were Generals Yague, Gómez Jordana, Aranda, Queipo de Llano, most of the old-line Monarchists, officeholders, Fascists, conservative Republicans who backed General Franco's revolt, grabbed posts in his Government. But Spain had changed more than her leaders. In three years she had lsot...