A Letter From The Publisher, May 3, 1948

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"Driving in from the airport, we were protected by a Colombian Army private with his Mauser thrust through the open window. On the way he shouted 'stop!' got out, knelt on the running board and began banging away at some snipers down Carrera Séptima. When he jumped back in the car, he said: 'I think I got one of them.' '

From that time on the Army had things under control. Dozier advised TIME'S editors that none of his actions was to be in any way construed as heroic and that the real credit should go to the U.P.'s Roland Shackford and the A.P.'s Joe McAvoy, who ran the pool in the isolated embassy building and stuck it out, although rioters fired the building four times. "The other unsung heroes of the occasion," he wrote, "were the native All America cable messengers who kept right on dodging snipers and stepping over bodies in the streets to get our copy through to the cable office."

Cordially,

James A. Linen