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...Ubico of Guatemala awarded the Order's Grand Cross to King Victor Emanuel III of Italy, Premier Benito Mussolini, Presidents Albert Lebrun of France, Lin Sen of China, Maxmiliano Martinez of El Salvador, Tiburcio Carias Andino of Honduras, Leon Cortes of Costa Rica, Alfonso Lopez of Colombia, Anastasio Somoza of Nicaragua and Stenio Vincent of Haiti "for personal merits and friendship to Guatemala...
...months ago General Anastasio Somoza was just another rebel; last week he was elected President of Nicaragua...
...head of the Nicaraguan National Guard, created and trained by U. S. Marines during the seven-year U. S. occupation, Rebel Somoza last June virtually seized control of Nicaragua (TIME, June 8 et seq.). He forced Liberal President Juan Bautista Sacasa to quit before his term had expired, made it necessary for Congress to appoint Dr. Carlos Brenes Jarquin Provisional President to fill...
...General Somoza, who will enter office on Jan. 1, obtained 99% of the votes cast. Ex-President Sacasa learned of the former rebel's crashing triumph as he relaxed in Manhattan...
Meanwhile a discordant voice sounded from Mexico, whose history is speckled with de facto Governments set up by military rebellion. Last week Mexico's Leftist Confederation of Mexican Workers (CTM) asked President Lázaro Cárdenas to refuse Somoza's de facto Government Mexican recognition. "It is time," the Confederation sanctimoniously declared, "to do something to end military rebellions in Latin America." This put President Cárdenas in a ticklish spot. Latin American nations have repeatedly charged that the U. S.'s occasional refusal to recognize Latin-American revolutionary Governments was in effect...