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...pleases us, as Central Americans, to convey to you our heartfelt gratitude for your true evidence of constructive Americanism by showing the real facts about the abominable dictatorships that we have in our own American backyard. Your recent attitude (TIME, May 15) toward the ferocious methods of the Salvadorean tyrant, Martinez, helped immensely to awaken the patriotic spirit of the Salvadorean people enabling them to regain their freedom and the sacred right to decent living. The downfall of Dictator Martinez represents the first democratic victory of the United Nations in American territory...
...appreciation of El Salvador's gesture, made in March 1934 owl-eyed, thick-lipped Manchukuoan Emperor Kang Teh was graciously pleased to decorate El Salvador's Strong Man, swart, curly-haired President General Maximiliano Hernández Martínez. Foreign Minister Miguel Angel Araujo and the Salvadorean Consul General in Tokyo, León Siguenza...
...months later, as League members fumed at him, shrewd Salvadorean President Martínez formally acknowledged the new state in the hope that the vast territory might prove a potent coffee market for El Salvador's only important crop...
...Eagle Pencil Company of New York did not know that El Salvador was omitted from a world map which it was including in children's pencil boxes until the United Press called its attention to the protest made by the National Tourist Board of El Salvador to the Salvadorean Minister in Washington. The Eagle Pencil Company regrets this incident which was entirely unintentional on its part. It did not prepare or print the map in question but bought the same from a company of high standing in the printing trade. The error will be corrected in the future...
Geneva sat up and stared last week when Salvadorean Consul General Leon Siguenza went round to the Manchukuan Embassy in Tokyo to recognize that country all over again publicly. Thus El Salvador was disclosed as the first League member to break the League's nonrecognition resolution and set a precedent that may cause serious trouble.* No matter how gingerly they handled Japan, nobody in Geneva was afraid of El Salvador. Sternly they talked of booting the recalcitrant little republic out of the League. Foreign Minister Angel Araujo ruffled his hackles to defend El Salvador's honor...