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...Chargé d'Affaires William J. McCafferty in San Salvador was genuinely alarmed last week. A Communist army had risen in three Pacific Coast provinces, attacked the towns of La Libertad, Ahuachapan and Sousonate, moved inland and was fighting for Santa Tecla, only eight miles from the capital. Telephone lines had been cut, railroads torn up. San Salvador was threatened next. Chargé d'Affaires McCafferty was familiar with Central American revolutions led by generals or politicians. He had failed to get excited when such a revolt overthrew the Salvador Government two months ago, set up a military...
Genuine it sounded to Washington. The Navy ordered a cruiser and two destroyers to Acajutla, on the Pacific coast of El Salvador, near Sousonate. Loaded with marines they set out from Balboa under full steam. Two Canadian destroyers, which happened to be passing, put into Acajutla, two days ahead of the U. S. ships. Great Britain sent a cruiser to prevent "much bloodshed...
Junta President General Maximiliano Martinez acted swiftly. Troops set out from San Salvador, chased the rebels into the mountains, where they burned and pillaged villages as they fled. Foreigners hastened to leave the country. Many women took refuge aboard the Canadian ships. Airplanes carried refugees to Mexico, where they told a tale of 26 government officials being lined up against a wall and shot. Others fled to Panama, reported that from 600 to 1,000 had been killed in the uprising. They blamed the failure of the U. S. and other countries to recognize the junta government for giving...
...book goes to press in sections, beginning Sept. 21. The last section is held until Dec. 21 with a space left open for last-minute news, like the "fudge box" of an evening newspaper. For that reason the new Almanac even reports the overthrow of President Araujo of El Salvador, Dec. 3; the defeat of Prime Minister Scullin of Australia by Joseph A. Lyons, Dec. 19. Included also are late census figures for Canada. France and Palestine, football scores...
Transferred. Salvador de Madariaga, Spanish Ambassador to the U. S.; to Paris, where he will be able more easily to continue his useful League of Nations work. Possible successor in Washington: Julio Alvarez del Vayo, present Spanish Ambassador to Mexico...