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Early last week shy, bespectacled Lieut. Colonel Carlos Delgado Chalbaud, Minister of Defense, and dumpy Lieut. Colonel Marco Pérez Jiménez, Chief of Staff, called on President Gallegos. Their message was simple: do as the army has bidden or else. Deadline: tomorrow. Next day the entire cabinet resigned, but the day dragged on without a word of a new cabinet...
Under the Portrait. In the Defense Ministry, stubby Pérez Jiménez strode from telephone to telephone like an animated fireplug, gushing orders. The reports were soon in: every garrison in the country had supported Chief of Staff Pérez; hardly a shot had been fired...
...midnight, standing under a portrait of Simon Bolivar, Lieut. Colonel Delgado Chalbaud was made provisional president at the head of a junta consisting of himself, Pérez Jiménez and Assistant Chief of Staff Luis Llovera Paez Secoc...
...final press conference last week he looked ill. His lined face had a sickly flush, and the thin lock of grey hair that slipped over his right temple made him seem older than his years. His hands trembled as he toyed with the black ribbon of his pince-nez. His voice was unusually low, and sometimes he seemed to be groping for the right word...
Double Nightmare. The generals got very little information from agents in Britain. (Hitler may have gotten more and kept it from them.) Hitler himself made only one trip to the Channel coast. He went to Cap Gris Nez one day in 1940, looked over the Channel toward Britain, and went home. The "Atlantic Wall" was never a system of continuous fortifications; Rundstedt called its defenses "absurdly overrated." There was no real cooperation between the Luftwaffe and the ground forces, the generals told Liddell Hart. And the Battle of the Bulge, which seemed so powerful an assault to the Allies...