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Died. Lieut. General Eduardo Lonardi, 59, who overthrew the ten-year rule of Argentina's Strongman Juan Peron in last year's five-day revolution, served as provisional President for 50 days, until ousted by a palace coup (TIME, Nov. 21) for his moderate attitude toward defeated Peronistas; after long illness; in Buenos Aires' Central Military Hospital. Soft-spoken General Lonardi spent a year (1947-48) in Washington as Argentina's representative on the Inter-American Defense Board, was forced out of the army in 1951 for allegedly plotting against Peron. Jailed for eight months...
Goodbye with Tanks. Within the Legion a group of anti-British nationalists formed, similar to the "Free Officers" clique that overthrew Egypt's King Farouk. They found allies against Glubb in Premier Rifai and in Queen Mother Zaine, who has been collecting a $280,000 annual subsidy from Saudi Arabia's King Saud to work against the British position. Last week, with nationalist sentiment running high, the officers forced the young King to choose between General Glubb and his own throne...
...speeches before the Organization of American States in Washington and the U.N. General Assembly in New York, and through all his press conferences, ran the theme that Castillo Armas wanted to leave with the U.S. and the world. Guatemala, he said, was "the first country in history that overthrew a Communist dictatorship." As a result, "nowhere else in the world can the effects of Communism and of democracy on the ordinary person be compared so accurately as in Guatemala...
...warfare, originally a Liberal guerrilla revolt against the oppression of a Conservative dictatorship, lost its point two years ago when General Rojas, though a Conservative himself, got fed up and overthrew the regime. The fighting slackened for a time-but the habit of bloodshed proved too strong. "Liberals kill Conservatives, then Conservatives kill...
Lesser men seized on his exalting of the "select minority" to forward the Nazi cause, conveniently disregarding his characteristic distinction that "the select man is not the petulant person who thinks himself superior to the rest but the man who demands more of himself than the rest . . ." When Spain overthrew the monarchy, against which he had inveighed so powerfully, Ortega took a seat in the new Cortes but almost immediately found the new republic "sad and sour," nothing like the enlightened instrument of civilization that he had envisioned...