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| | TIME Magazine Archive Article -- Blue & White v. Red -- May. 19, 1961 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29) |
 | | On a flag-draped platform in the main square of La Ceiba, a banana port that has seen better days, President Ramon Villeda Morales of Honduras put democratic principles to personal test. |
 | | A Communist speaker had just told a labor rally that Honduras had betrayed Latin America by breaking relations with Castro's Cuba.* Answered Villeda Morales: "The speaker who preceded me was exercising his right of free speech. |
 | | But I ask you to choose between Communism and democracy, between the blue and white flag of Honduras and the red flag of Russia." So saying, he stepped down and strode away. |
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