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...that date Lieut. Col. Sanchez Cerro started the revolution which overthrew the late, famed President Augusto B. Leguia, "The Bantam Roosevelt of Peru." The compliment implied by Congress in its retroactive promotion was therefore a most delicate one. Touched, the President signed the Congress' clemency bill, thus making it most probable that he will commute the two death sentences...
Amid a fist fight in the Chamber of Deputies, confidence in this Cabinet was voted 309 to 262, whereat a spectator in the gallery dropped dead "of excitement" (said the Chamber physician). Later the new Cabinet will face the Senate, which overthrew the previous (Laval) Cabinet. Lying extremely low as Minister of Labor, Pierre Laval was obliged, as his first duty, to report that Frenchmen "totally unemployed" increased 19,000 last week to a grand total...
Vexed, the Senatorial greybeards, who wanted to vent their angry words at once, promptly overthrew the Laval Cabinet by a vote...
...Santa Tecla, only eight miles from the capital. Telephone lines had been cut, railroads torn up. San Salvador was threatened next. Chargé d'Affaires McCafferty was familiar with Central American revolutions led by generals or politicians. He had failed to get excited when such a revolt overthrew the Salvador Government two months ago, set up a military junta (TIME, Dec. 14). There was nothing to do but wait until the junta staged an election to legalize itself and obtain U. S. recognition. But this affair was different; Communists might not observe the rules of the revolutionary game. Into...
...revolutionist but no Bolshevik, Vladimir Zenzinov was later a member of the Government in the Urals which fought against the Soviets in 1918. When Dictator Alexander Kolchak overthrew the Ural Government Zenzinov escaped, now lives in Paris, foments trouble for the Soviets...