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Under the benign auspices of Theodore Roosevelt and his Secretary of State John Hay, Panama proclaimed a republican constitution in 1904. Last Oct. 1, a determined young man named Arnulfo Arias swore an oath as President of Panama faithfully to observe that constitution. Seventeen days later he presented Panama'...
Better known in both Central and North America was urbane, greying, 57-year-old Candidate Alfaro. Minister to the U. S. from 1922 to 1936-except for a two-year hitch in domestic politics-Career Man Alfaro has served on several Pan-American committees, has picked up decorations from Peru...
Arriving in Panama from Washington, Alfaro lost no time organizing a drive to show the need for social and civil-service reforms. He accused Arias of using Fascist terrorism, pointed to the N. R. P.
Nazi-style party organization, its police backing, the forcible collection of campaign funds from Government employee. Cried Reformer Alfaro: "I am not conducting a campaign, I am fighting an army." As evidence, he declared his meetings and parades had been broken up, that the N. R. P. had tried to...
Last week, while Alfaro, now jobless, told his sad story around Washington, President Arias stood in Panama City's National Stadium before 30,000 of his countrymen, South America's youngest President in the nation's first open-air Presidential inauguration. He promised "peace and friendship to...