Like the Shah of Iran, the Somoza dynasty was placed in power by the U.S. government.

Like the shah, Somoza relied on a U.S.-armed and U.S.-trained military apparatus whose real mission was to terrorize and suppress all opposition.

Like Iran under the shah, Nicaragua under Somoza was an important base for imperialism’s counterrevolutionary operations in the region.

Like the shah, Somoza tried to drown in blood the aspirations of the masses for democratic rights and a better life.

But Somoza failed—as the shah’s monarchy, the Thieu regime in Vietnam, and the Batista dictatorship in Cuba failed before him.

Nicaragua shows once again the readiness of the world’s exploited masses to challenge the imperialist colossus, to sacrifice their lives for economic and social justice, for freedom from colonial domination.  
 
July 26, 1954
Leaders of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People urged Attorney General Brownell to make a thorough investigation of the racist violence at Trumbull Park Homes in Chicago and to prosecute those responsible for the terrorism.

NAACP Secretary Walter White and Washington Bureau director Clarence Mitchell took the matter up with Brownell July 14.

For almost a year now, Negroes who moved into the previously all-white federally owned project at Trumbull Park have been under attack from racist and fascist elements. Violence has flared and damage has been done to the government-owned property by hoodlums in the environs of the project. Although police are stationed at the project with the assignment of protecting the Negro families, no effective punitive action has been taken against the hoodlums, many of whom do not live in the project.  
 
 
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