Show MEN OF WEIGHT IN THE NATIONS BELOW THE LINE in the assassination of president sanchez cerro little I 1 ittle colonel of peru the world witnessed the exit of another intensely dramatic dri matic char acter from the political amphitheater h e ater of south america of all the soldiers and d who have strutted tl air brief mo ment in that cl anding pageant none was moro lorfel ful in temperament and bad ground than the fallen president A short swart sold er and leader of forlorn hopes he carried in his veins the blood of both the inca race that built a mighty empire while europe was still struggling through the mid die ages and the daring cinq leistn dores who looted then toppled that C empire into the dust dusl his ills accession to the presidency in 1930 was a doeble victory it lifted to power not only a repressed cal party but a representative of the race which white conquerors had doomed to centuries long obscurity no south american title however exceeds in cl arm and implication that of juan vicente gomez vener yeller able pres dent of venezuela widely known as the happy D chator but that s only one of his sobriquets he Is 19 ilso tl tie e patriarch and the U ea I 1 deseri ing one of the ng gomez ac consisted of shatter ing an odd trad tr id tion tl at all battles must be fought on tuesday the day of mars As a in gitary leader he sent his troops into bittle battle on whatever day seemed profit ous wh ch ell to enemy troops disturbed at their siestas fiestas si estas seemed as as it proved d sa the happy D chator Is not only a statesman and a warrior but a movie fan as vi well ell he ile likes to grin at i postles of the merry heart he also likes progress blood and iron seems to him an outmoded slogan instead he has given venezuela the motto peace and AN work ork a phy of government which in be adopted with profit by many nation in both tl e old world and the new philadelphia PhIladel plia la public ledger |