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...Novelist Rómulo Gallegos Freire became the first popularly elected President...
...along with Chile, Brazil and Peru, had taken the lead in calling for common defense against international Communism. No nation opposed the resolution last week, but Mexico, Venezuela and Guatemala wanted it broadened to include all totalitarianism. Said Venezuela's Rómulo Betancourt: "Because Communist ideas inspire against peace and security we support the resolution, but we also want to condemn the existence of other types of dictatorships which are an equal menace...
H.M.S. Sheffield, flagship of the American Gulf & West Indies Squadron, had just done Britain's honors at the inaugural cf Venezuelan President Rómulo Gallegos. Last week, she lay at anchor off the Colombian coast, while her handsome senior officer, Vice Admiral Sir William Tennant, went inland to pay courtesy calls in Bogota. An urgent order flashed from Whitehall: proceed without delay to British Honduras. Taking Sir William aboard at historic Cartagena, the Sheffield raced northwest for Belize. Over from Jamaica, by a second order, steamed the 9,850-ton cruiser H.M.S. Devonshire with a detachment...
...appointing 51-year-old Poet Blanco, Venezuela's Novelist-President Rómulo Gallegos knew that he had laid his hand on a man who had the confidence of Venezuela's common people. Blanco, an unassuming little man with sunken cheeks and burning eyes, is their country's foremost poet and orator. The fact that he presided last week over the Foreign Office in the Casa Amarilla in Caracas was a sort of personal triumph for them...
Betancourt, whose salary was $1,200 a month, went before a federal judge to declare his financial condition, as now legally required of retiring presidents. He began: "I, Rómulo Betancourt, newspaperman; declare under oath that I possess no real-estate assets of any kind." Then he listed everything he owned: a few shares in the newspaper El Páis, a share in Los Cortijos (a recreation club), a 1947 Mercury, several suits of formal clothes. Total value: 17,000 Bs (bolivars, equaling $5,100). His debts: 4,156 Bs owed to his tailors; 1,200 still...