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Show Not One Member of Castro's family Raised a Voice , in His Half. Caracas, Saturday, Pec. 3G. Goa-t-ral Castro's power in Venezuela crumbled hi a day like a house built of cards, and not a pillar has re-n.tined re-n.tined standing. Even Ms own brother. Celestine. after turning over his guns and ammunition to the appointee ap-pointee of President Gomez, fled into Colombia. Not one member of Castro's Cas-tro's family has raised up nls voice for him. for It wag his custom to treat thm more or lees as lie did the foreign for-eign diplomats and his ministers. ( astro inspired fear if nothing else in Venezuela. With hl6 absence the fear disappeared disap-peared and the reaction against his ruie, which besran on Sunday, the thirteenth, thir-teenth, wns i-onsummatea on the following fol-lowing Saturday. It was not only the ivoEt complete upheaval ?n tne history his-tory of Venezuela, but. the most popular popu-lar and most hloodless one. Not for a moment did ueneral Gomez Go-mez and his friends imagine that they could bow to the wishes of the masses pn I save the nation from its present Industrial ruin, brought about by Castro's Cas-tro's disastrous domestic one roreign I elides. There were dark clouds over the horizon ho-rizon in the shape of several barracks bar-racks In Caracas filled with soldiers antagonistic to the new government, led by a clique of Castro's followers, with Governor CaVdenas at their head. This made it necessary for Dr. Jose De Jesus Paulo, the foreign minister, to go. on December 14, to the Brazilian, Bra-zilian, British and Italian ministers und tell them it would be well to cable for warships, ns conditions might arise at any moment that would make it impossible for tne government govern-ment to protect the lives and the property of foreigners. Each of these ministers cabled their request to his government, but none responded except ex-cept the United States, ana its vessel, ves-sel, the Dolphin, arrlvcr ;ust six days j.fter the danger was over and eleven days after the cable was sent. If on Saturday, the nineteenth, the plot to assassinate Gomez nad been Fiiccessful, if a minor telegraph employe em-ploye bad not ruf ed to the president presi-dent with a copy of the fatal message from Berlin, which is said to have authorized au-thorized the conspirators to take extreme ex-treme measures, thm tlie triumph of the Castro party would surely have resulted in the pillage of Caracas and especially of the hated foreigners. There was not a warship in La Guayra, as the Dutch vessels were entirely beyond call. The failure of the plot anc? the natural nat-ural overthrow of the entire Castro machine resulted In a cry or tnanks-glving tnanks-glving throughout Venezuela. President Gomez has rrsen to the cccaslon and not only are the foreign disputes of Castro being settled, but all the restrictions against trade and the monopoly are being abolished. The hundreds of political prisoners have all been released and have been relurned to their destitute famillles. Many of these had been in dungeons for eight and nine years without trial Not only has the minister of the interior, a West Point graduate. General F. L. Alcantaro, by name, called upon all the Venezuelan expatriates expa-triates to return to their ratnerland. but President Gomez has written many personal letters and cablegrams urging urg-ing them to return and collaborate with him in building it up again out of lt6 ruins. |