Word: trujillos
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...your June 4 article on the vanishing Jesús de Galindez, one well understands that Franklin D. Roosevelt Jr. is not responsible for the disappearance of Galindez; on the other hand, he does work for Rafael Trujillo. Surely it's common knowledge that Trujillo belongs to the most nightmarish category of dictators that kills, tortures, deceives and terrorizes. Mr. Roosevelt Jr. gets $30,000 a year for recommending Trujillo to us. May I ask whether anyone is reminded of 30 pieces of silver...
Franklin D. Roosevelt is still very much an idol for millions of Latin Americans. Of course, young Roosevelt has to make a living, so I guess that is the reason he has not spoken out very strongly against the Trujillo regime...
FIRST ATOMIC-POWER reactor under President Eisenhower's atoms-for-peace plan has been ordered from Baltimore's Glenn L. Martin Co. by the Dominican Republic. The deal, contingent on a bilateral agreement between the U.S. and General Trujillo, will boost power-hungry Ciudad Trujillo's electrical output...
...comeback, could well worry about the political effects of the Galindez case. As a "citizen who is deeply concerned," he wrote a letter urging the Republican Administration's Justice Department to "exhaust every effort" to solve the mystery; F.D.R. Jr. thus joined with the many anti-Trujillo organizations that had asked the FBI to look into the case. But the answer he got last week from Assistant Attorney General Warren Olney III gave him no political comfort. "I am sure it would assist in the investigation of this matter," wrote Olney blandly, "to know whether you have addressed...
...quickly as it arose, went into New York City." Manhattan police, meanwhile, have sifted what one tired cop called "a million" clues. A sample last week was the testimony given a Havana judge by one Rafael ("The Corpse") Soler, who is under indictment for the murder of an anti-Trujillo Dominican exile in Havana last summer. Gangster Soler said that in 1953 a "Trujillo agent" offered him $100,000 to kill Galindez, but he found the job "too risky." The New York police sent for a transcript and prepared to delve into the background of the incident, hoping to find...