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...Monument Builder. Trujillo has put up hospitals and schools, but above all he has put up monuments to himself. Every hamlet has a statue, or at least a bust, of El Benefactor, every public building an inscription proclaiming his beneficence. "Only Trujillo cures you," says the inscription on a hospital. Hundreds of towns, streets, buildings have been renamed after Trujillo, his father, his mother, and his patron saint, Rafael. In an unequalled burst of impudence, he renamed the oldest city in the New World (founded by Bartholomeo Columbus, brother of Christopher, in 1496): Ciudad Santo Domingo became Ciudad Trujillo...
Under glaring lights at the Washington Monument, he first had a few words of praise. "Men of the armed forces in Korea, you will go down in history as the first army to fight under a flag of a world organization in the defense of human freedom . . . Victory may be in your hands, but you are winning a greater thing than military victory, for you are vindicating the idea of freedom under international law." But then he got to his main point, that the U.S. must "stick to a hard, tough policy of self-denial and self-control . . . The greatest...
Polite Applause. As he read, many of the 50,000 gathered in front of the monument seemed hardly to be listening. Firecrackers popped from the edges of the Fourth of July crowd. Sudden bursts of laughter and applause, inspired by crowd antics that had nothing to do with the President's words, rose up. Harry Truman ignored the noise and plodded on, making no-attempt at oratory, never gesturing, rarely raising his eyes from his brown leather notebook. He sought to establish a historical precedent for his limited-war policy: "Our aims in Korea are just as clear...
Peace, if it comes, will find Korea's cities dead. In Seoul the gutted, white-domed capitol of the Republic of Korea stands like a skeleton among the city's ruins. Suwon's huge, half-destroyed gate, once a monument to Korea's kings, guards only rubble now. Fifty cities and towns in South Korea have been destroyed...
Last week, 14 years after Kate Buckingham's death, ground was finally broken for a less conspicuous monument to be constructed in Lincoln Park. The new 130-ft.-sq. memorial should still attract plenty of attention. On top of three stone terraces a polished black granite pylon would rise 70 feet, dwarfing the 13-ft. statue of Hamilton (completed ten years ago) - not to mention the park's 12-ft. bronze Lincoln...