Word: salvadore
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...From El Salvador, whose Theosophist-Dictator Maximiliano Hernández Martinez suppressed a bloody revolt a few weeks ago (TIME, April 17), came the first news of the aftermath, and of new trouble for the Dictator...
Ambassador Thurston seemed to have tried, so far as correctness allowed, to soften the Dictator's vengeance. But during the days of terror which followed the revolt, all El Salvador was sheltering fugitives. Priests lent their robes. Protestant ministers helped. The embassies of Costa Rica, Peru, Guatemala, Spain (and probably others) granted sanctuary. President Jorge Ubico of Guatemala, though a tyrant himself, allowed fugitives to cross his borders, gave them money to get to Mexico. But the U.S. Embassy closed its doors against them...
...only newspapers appearing were those owned by the Dictator. No one bought them. But the country was flooded with typewritten sheets. When the April 17 issue of TIME arrived in El Salvador, the police expurgated it. At least one copy escaped. Its story of the revolt, translated, circulated underground among thousands who welcomed a true account of the bloodthirsty mystic in the Presidential Palace...
...purpose of Art is to interpret things as they are in nature. In order to be true Art, Art must be functional. It must not only reflect the people and their way of life, but its messages and meanings must be available and understandable to these very people. Of Salvador Dali, Mr. Boolba has this to say in his usual forthright manner: "His works are of a mind distorted. In other words, he stinks...
...Dictator Martínez has suppressed plots, kept order with the help of his high-paid army, his spies, and the richer landlords. He made headlines by being the first to recognize the Japanese puppet state of Manchukuo, and the Spanish regime of Francisco Franco. Otherwise he kept El Salvador out of the news...