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...that was especially beneficial to some of his younger singers-notably Dutch-born Sonja Foot as Constanze and Montreal's Anna Chornodolska as the maid Blonde. Bass Joseph Rouleau, a regular at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, was lecher-perfect as the Pasha's harem keeper, Osmin. The star of the evening, though, was the five-year-old National Arts Centre Orchestra, a chamber-sized ensemble of 46 that Bernardi conducts in concert during the winter...
...revolt petered out, rebels bolted like rabbits for Guatemala and Honduras (whose President Tiburcio Carias Andino was reported to have had a hand in the plot). Another rumored instigator, El Salvador's ex-President Osmin Aguirre, who does not like the present Government's more liberal program and federation-with-Guatemala plans, had remained discreetly in the background...
Then the blow-recognition from Washington-fell. The U.S. State Department not only recognized Osmin Aguirre but urged other nations to do likewise. It probably wanted to complete its united Hemisphere front against Argentina in time for the Mexico City Conference. But Salvadorans feared that the little Dictator, thus encouraged, might snatch the Government from the less dreaded Castaneda and resume his tyranny...
...Salvador inaugurated last week its new, non-popular President, mummy-faced General Salvador Castaneda Castro, chosen in a one-candidate election. The crowds in the streets were small and cheerless. Beside the new President stood the savage little Dictator, outgoing President Osmin Aguirre...
When El Salvador last year overthrew her Theosophist-Dictator Maximiliano Martinez, she breathed a brief moment of freedom. It ended when Osmin Aguirre battered his way to power with the help of Lend-Lease arms. Hope rose again when all the nations of the Hemisphere (except dictator-ruled Nicaragua and Honduras) refused to recognize him. Chilled, he moderated his severity, staged Castaneda's election. Seemingly, he was forced to retreat toward democracy...