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...before a mob of Haitians had stormed into the Chamber through broken doors and smashed the Deputies' desks. The mob objected to Elie Lescot not only as Stenio Vincent's stooge but as too good a friend of the neighboring Dominican Republic's Boss Rafael Leonidas Trujillo Molina, whom most Haitians blame for the border massacre of 1937 (TIME, Nov. 1, 1937). The mob was ill-advised on both counts. Elie Lescot wangled an indemnity out of President Trujillo. And Stenio Vincent loves leisure more than power, would like to take President-elect Lescot's place...
...homeless European and most refugee relief organizations is of pioneering colonies in the New World where refugees may live off the land, build themselves self-supporting communities. So far the only place this dream has come even close to reality is the Dominican Republic, whose boss, Rafael Leonidas Trujillo, offers land and conditional citizenship to sponsored immigrants. There nine refugee settlements have been set up, eight for Spanish Republicans, one (mostly) for German Jews. But last week, looking the colonies over, reporters found the realities none too pleasant...
...Dominican Republic $3,000,000 to build a slaughterhouse, community refrigerators in Ciudad Trujillo, finish a large hotel started by the Government about four years ago. The grant is called a "health" loan. Reason: the refrigeration system will revise a national law which requires all fresh meat to be eaten within two days or thrown away...
Next day Judge Carranza Trujillo committed Trotsky's assassin, pale, dark Frank Jackson, to trial for murder, committed Jackson's girl friend, Sylvia Ageloff, as accessory before the fact. The problem of Mexico City's tough, efficient police was not so much to make them talk as to keep them from being rubbed out before they talked too much...
Considering the fact that General Trujillo's local record has not always been regarded as that of a humanitarian, many a refugee official raised a skeptical eyebrow when the Benefactor first offered to take the refugees in. But the contract he agreed to was a model of liberality...