(See front cover)
For many a year a bust of kinetic little Dictator President Augusto Bernardino Leguia has stood in Lima's Governmental Palace bearing the clarion inscription NO FIRMO! ("I Will Not Sign!") This is a reference to the oft-told tale of how, on an occasion since commemorated as Character Day, he refused to sign his own abdication when threatened with death (TIME, Sept 1). The memorial still stood last week, when a hasty paintbrush edited the inscription to YA HA FIRMADO! ("Now he has signed!").
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