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...Lima fiery little Provisional President Luis Sanchez Cerro thought the troops were on their way to crush the revolt at Arequipa (TIME, March 2), proud "Queen City of the South...
Gradually the hunch grew that revolting Arequipa was the horse to back. Presently Navy officers had a talk with Col. Sanchez Cerro, told him that only a single regiment in Lima remained loyal to his regime. He resigned, moved from the presidential palace into a hotel, loudly cheered by a handful of friends. "I only wanted to save my country," he explained. "I had no political ambition...
Head of the new government, a stop-gap affair patched up in Lima until Arequipa could be heard from, was, last week, Chief Justice Ricardo Leoncio Elias of Peru's Supreme Court. So devoid of ambition is Col. Sanchez Cerro that less than a month ago he announced that "by unanimous solicitation of the people" he would be the only candidate at Peru's next presidential election...
...field marshal. Smart King. Soon all around King Alfonso rose, denser than usual, the heady perfume of praise. All his courtiers told His Majesty that he had just played superlatively well a most difficult hand at statecraft, finessing the Republican parties, easing out that old rebel Jose Sanchez Guerra whom he had "cleverly" called as Prime Minister (TIME, Feb. 23), consolidating the Monarchist parties, and finally setting up under Admiral Aznar the most thoroughly aristocratic Cabinet which even Spain has had in years...
Because three fingers of his left hand have been shot off, that hand is often clenched Napoleon-like behind the back of Lieut.-Colonel Luis Sanchez Cerro, hard-featured, short-statured leader of the Peruvian revolution which made...