A little gem of a Central American revolution occurred in El Salvador last week. There were no obscure causes. The government of President Arturo Araujo, in its anxiety to economize,* had simply forgotten to pay the army officers' salaries for three months. Chief of Salvadorean Police was President Araujo's brother-in-law. The police were paid. The police remained loyal.
Abruptly in the middle of the night the guns of San Salvador's Fort La Artilleria began blazing away at the handsome colonnaded Presidential Palace. Officers of Fort El Sapote on the other side of the city, unaware of the revolution, tumbled out...
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