Word: nicaragua
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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After that nothing but approving votes were heard until Siam's Assemblyman softly murmured "Abstain."* Other abstainees who either sent no Assemblyman or simply did not vote totaled 13: Abyssinia, Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Cuba, Santo Domingo, Honduras, Irak, Liberia, Nicaragua, Paraguay, Peru, Salvador. Gravely President Hymans read out the final count: 42 to 1-hailed in Geneva as "The World against Japan!" Ruling that the Committee of 19's recommendations had been adopted "unanimously,"* Mr. Hymans called Japan a land "which seems desirous of retiring into isolation and carrying on its policy without taking into account the opinion...
Testily in Washington, Rear Admiral Alfred W. Johnson, who supervised two and a half years ago Nicaragua's Congressional elections, said: "I must point out that Sandino is not a fit subject for hero worship...
President Coolidge sent 5,000 Marines and bluejackets in 1926 to catch him. President Hoover branded him only last year as a desperado who must be exterminated. Lurking in the hills and jungles of northern Nicaragua, he and his 500 guerrillas slew 135 U. S. officers & men before President Hoover withdrew the Marines (TIME, Jan. 9). Last week Nicaragua's arch-desperado and Robin Hood, tough little General Augusto Cesar Sandino, flew down from his mystery base in the north to Managua, capital of Nicaragua, and was smartly saluted by 50 native National Guardsmen (trained by U. S. Marines...
...undefeated Sandinistas will peacefully present their arms to the Sacasa Government within three months; 2) Sandinistas who present arms as agreed will receive squatters rights in the Coco River Valley, will be guarded by 100 Sandinista police under the Government's orders; 3) on public works in northern Nicaragua the Government will give preference in employment to Sandinistas...
...have nothing against North Americans personally," said General Sandino before flying back to his jungle capital. "Let them come to Nicaragua-as workers, not as bosses. I salute the American people...