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...little gem of a Central American revolution occurred in El Salvador last week. There were no obscure causes. The government of President Arturo Araujo, in its anxiety to economize,* had simply forgotten to pay the army officers' salaries for three months. Chief of Salvadorean Police was President Araujo's brother-in-law. The police were paid. The police remained loyal...
...after midnight when Senor Dr. Don Carlos Leiva, Salvadorean charge d'affaires, returned from a friendly card game to his legation on Connecticut...
Under international law Dr. Leiva could collect handsome damages from the U. S. Government for his injuries and the rape of his liquor storeroom. Following U. S. precedent, he might even land Salvadorean marines in Washington to safeguard Salvadorean life & property. Good-humored, he took no action, made no claim...
Soon, however, there will occur an industrial event which should add to Guatemalan and Salvadorean prosperity. This event will be the completion and opening early next month of an 80-mile stretch of railroad which will link the coast-to-coast Guatemalan railroad with the coast-to-the-interior Salvador railroad. With the completion of this connecting link, the coffee planters of San Salvador will be given a direct rail line to the Atlantic. Instead of shipping coffee to the Pacific, then down to the Panama Canal, then through the canal to the Atlantic, coffee men can ship entirely...