Word: somozaism
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Pleased too was the swart, chunky gentleman for whom this swankest military State reception in Washington history had been staged by Franklin Roosevelt, He was only General Anastasio Somoza, President of little Nicaragua (pop. 1,133,000), but this show for him was in all details precisely the reception planned for King George & Queen Elizabeth of mighty Great Britain next month. Fact that it was a dress rehearsal for that occasion did not diminish the fact that it came first, that it was as handsome a performance as any Latin-American heart could desire, that it was a gesture intended...
...Roosevelt, Vice President & Mrs. Garner, the Cabinet (with only two absent), Chief Justice Hughes all followed Franklin Roosevelt in handshaking General Somoza & wife at the station. The artillery banged a 21-gun salute. With 15 tanks in front, 15 behind, the Presidential car led a parade up to the Capitol, around its plaza, down Pennsylvania Avenue to the White House. Franklin Roosevelt had assured the presence of throngs by having all Federal employes excused from work from 11 a.m. to 1 p. m. Military strictness prevailed. Officers wore their medals & decorations. The only two pressmen (one reporter, one cameraman) permitted...
Anastasio Somoza visited the U. S. 22 years ago, to enroll in a Philadelphia night school to study accounting. When President Coolidge sent the marines to Nicaragua to suppress revolutionary Augusto
Sandino and train a native national guard, young Somoza got on so well with the visitors that he was nicknamed "El Yanqui." In 1933 when the Marines left, Anastasio Somoza, then 38 and his country's Foreign Minister, became commandant of the Marine-trained Army. Three years later he used it to run his wife's uncle, President Juan Bautista Sacasa, out of the country. He had himself elected President in due constitutional style, then resigned, rewrote the constitution, got re-elected in new style for an eight-year term. Thus neatly sidestepped were all objections from such...
Night Scholar Somoza became proficient at accounting. Last week he could authoritatively state that his country needs only about $9,000,000 from the U. S. to build improvements and, to improve her trade with the U. S., an arrangement like the one wangled for Brazil in March by Foreign Minister Aranha. In addition, Dictator Somoza discussed with Franklin Roosevelt, whose guests* he and Señora Somoza were their first night in Washington, his new constitution (now formally blessed by the U. S.), the canal Nicaragua wants the U. S. to pay for across her.t and hemisphere solidarity...