Word: nicaragua
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...only one U. S. journalist has had the manly gumption to go jungaleering in Nicaragua and cable home true details of the war now being fought between U. S. Marines and the indomitable Nicaraguan guerilla, General Augusto Calderon Sandino (TIME, Aug. 1). The unique jungle journalist is Carleton Beals, now special correspondent in Nicaragua for The Nation, liberal, trenchant, enterprising Manhattan weekly review. Although Correspondent Beals was both prolix and tediously descriptive of scenery in his early despatches, it is now possible to cull one excellent purple passage and then get down to the solid news of the first interview...
...exceedingly astute, knows the country well, and, with luck breaking even, can remain in the field indefinitely. By keeping the mountainous country north and east at his back, he cannot be cut off by 2,500 marines or 5,000; and he can shuttle back and forth . . . across Nicaragua, enjoying a fairly adequate food supply, tapping rich agricultural sectors, and passing rapidly from point to point; whereas the American troops, to cover this same region, and maintain intact their line of communications with Managua and Leon, must swing over an arc half again as long...
After the vote, triumphant lights twinkled far into the night at the sumptuous Managua residence of famed onetime President of Nicaragua, General Emiliano Chamorro. He had defeated the bill. His potent, ancestral family controls the Conservative electorate of Nicaragua; and that control enabled General Chamorro to wipe out, last week, his old score against the U. S. State Department, which refused to recognize a government set up by him, some years ago, after a coup d'etat...
From Washington, D. C., the State Department reaffirmed its inflexible purpose to supervise a "fair" election in Nicaragua. Jurists opined that both the Constitution and Chamber of Deputies of Nicaragua might possibly be circumvented by having President Adolfo Diaz of Nicaragua (a U. S. puppet) authorize U. S. supervision of the election by Presidential decree, after the Chamber has risen...
Amid this doubtful embroglio Brigadier General Logan Feland, commanding the 1,200 U. S. Marines in Nicaragua, issued a general exhortation to "untiring exertion" by Marines during "the next two months," because after that the rainy season will set in and thereafter it would admittedly be impossible to subdue the forces of General Augusto Calderon Sandino, hardy guerilla & patriot, now indomitably in arms against U. S. intervention...