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Only one issue was at stake when some 2,000,000 button-eyed Filipinos went to the polls last week to elect a President: By how big a majority would they return frail, dapper little Manuel Luis Quezon y Molina to office...
...Haitians had stormed into the Chamber through broken doors and smashed the Deputies' desks. The mob objected to Elie Lescot not only as Stenio Vincent's stooge but as too good a friend of the neighboring Dominican Republic's Boss Rafael Leonidas Trujillo Molina, whom most Haitians blame for the border massacre of 1937 (TIME, Nov. 1, 1937). The mob was ill-advised on both counts. Elie Lescot wangled an indemnity out of President Trujillo. And Stenio Vincent loves leisure more than power, would like to take President-elect Lescot's place in Washington, leaving...
Another possibility: the Germans were getting supplies from the Dominican Republic, whose dictator, General Rafael Leonidas Trujillo Molina has been called pro-Nazi. It was reported last week, and quickly denied, that Dominican Coast Guard Cutter No. 3 had been sunk off Samana Peninsula "in an accidental collision with a French cruiser." Private advices in Manhattan were that the cutter had been caught piping fuel into German submarines, and was sunk by gunfire from the French ship; that furthermore, stations had been set up on shore for submarine repairs...
...Manhattan by special car arrived the entourage of General Rafael Leonidas Trujillo Molina, former President of the Dominican Republic, now Commander in Chief of its army. Fresh from a round of receptions in Washington, the onetime second lieutenant in the U. S. Marines tucked in at the Waldorf-Astoria, went off on another round of receptions, including a 21 -gun salute at the World's Fair. General Trujillo's next stop, said he, would be Paris, whither he will sail in a fortnight to pick up his wife, who went there two months ago to bear a second...
Rafael Leonidas Trujillo Molina was the little brown bandit who ruled the Dominican Republic as President from 1930 to 1938. He then refused a third term "following United States precedent" and now rules instead as generalissimo of the army. He was much put out this past year as he watched the parade of other Latin-American strongmen to Washington: Cuba's Batista, Nicaragua's Somoza, Brazil's Aranha and Monteiro (TIME, Nov. 14, et seq.). All these received official invitations, were saluted, handshaken, welcomed at the White House. But for Dictator Trujillo, no invitation came...