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...Dictator Maximiliano Hernandez Martinez was fighting the "civil disobedience" of his people (TIME, May 22), the death of a U.S. boy provided the final push to topple the tyrant from power. At the height of the civil revolution, 17-year-old Joseph Wright (son of a U.S. father, a Salvadorian mother) was talking with friends on a street of strike-bound San Salvador. In obedience to a police command, they dispersed. But one policeman fired, killed Joseph instantly...
...Ambassador Walter Thurston acted quickly, made a formal call on Martinez. Asked the Ambassador coldly: "What can I inform my Government?" "I lament," replied the Dictator. "I shall inform my Government," said Thurston, "that you lament." Reports of this move convinced the Salvadorian people that the U.S. stood at their side, corrected the bad impression the Ambassador made during an earlier, unsuccessful military revolt by refusing to give asylum to enemies of Martinez...
...Three. A Salvadorian resolution was adopted, under which the Council of the League will whip preliminaries into shape for an international conference to consider the private manufacture of arms, The co-operation of the U. S. will be asked "as soon as the United States Government considers that possible...