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Fountain of Light. A Dictator Disports
Beals, Carleton | January 14, 1956 issue

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The Dominican Fair of Peace and Confraternity of the Free World, which opened just before Christmas, is a magnificent enterprise which has cost, a third of the Dominican Republic's national budget. Seventy-nine buildings have been erected on a 125-acre tract near Ciudad Trujillo, the capital renamed after the present dictator, Generalissimo LeonidasTrujillo; what is more, the fair actually has a small Temple of Peace tucked away in one corner. It is a pygmy compared to the 200-foot Trujillo Peace Monument overlooking Santiago which the dictator dedicated to himself and the country earlier this year.

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BUDGET; EXPENDITURES, Public; MONUMENTS; HISTORIC buildings; DICTATORS; DOMINICAN Republic
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