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...exhaustive 350-page investigation and recommendations (TIME, Aug. 12). What made 350,000,000 Indians so anxious last week for a sight of the half-dreamy, half-cranky face of their new Viceroy was that the new Constitution gives him the power to be either a messiah or a tyrant...
...bachelor Beethoven chose one that extolled marital love and devotion. To be near her husband imprisoned in a dungeon Leonore dresses as a boy, takes a job as the jailer's assistant. Dramatic scene comes when she helps dig her husband's grave, then outwits the tyrant who had plotted his murder. Other parts of the opera move along leisurely, seem dated and old-fashioned compared with the Beethoven symphonies. A prisoners' chorus is stirring, compassionately descriptive of their pitiful existence. But there are flaccid comic opera bits unworthy of the composer's genius...
More than two years after the overthrow of Tyrant Gerardo Machado, Cuba last week went to the polls in boredom, suspicion and disgust, to elect a President, a Congress, provincial Governors and mayors. Cuba had had no election at all for eight years, no election even moderately honest for 20. Most politicos, who preferred their own voices to the people's votes, had made certain that last week's election would prove as little as possible. It was the quietest election in Cuban history, for which U. S. bigwigs in Havana gave much credit to able...
Colonel Mendieta was the fifth President of his troubled country since 1933, when Cuba overthrew her "tyrant" General Gerardo Machado, who now lives in Europe. There was no critical reason why he should resign, but the Cuban political snarl had at last grown too involved and ominous for Colonel Mendieta. With the beauty of phrase which comes readily to Cuban orators, he abruptly declared: "The Cuban people said when they called me to the Presidency that it would be as the nation's savior. Now I shall again be the nation's savior, if I resign. Hence...
...tightest little tyranny in the Caribbean Sea, through a heavy fog of censorship, fortnight ago leaked news of trouble in the Dominican Republic. The brisk little tyrant, Dictator-President Rafael Leonidas Trujillo Molina, had planned a year and a half vacation in the U. S. and Europe, his first trip off his island, presumably in company with his lush mistress, Donna Maria. Trujillo planned to stop in Washington to renew the 17-month moratorium on the $16,000,000 debt the Republic owes U. S. bondholders. Meanwhile his Minister to the U. S., Rafael Brache, was doing the preliminary spadework...