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Approved were the following drastic changes in Panama's governmental system: 1) increase in the President's term from four to six years, retroactive to include Arnulfo Arias' own term; 2) disfranchisement of all non-Spanish-speaking Negroes, prohibition of further immigration by these, by Asiatics and North Africans; 3) establishment of Government monopolies and expropriation of private property at the discretion of the President; 4) declaration of a state of siege if & when the President deems necessary. In the hands of a race-conscious, ambitious man-which Arnulfo Arias is-such a constitution could...
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's unicameral Legislature with a proposed Bill of Reforms to remake the constitution. On Nov. 22 the Legislature approved the Bill. Last week, in a plebiscite, the people voted it into effect. Since the voting officials distributed "yes" and "no" votes to be marked, and since Government watchers packed every...
...platform of "Panamanian nationalism." Shunted off to the directorship of the Department of Sanitation after leading Panama's first and only revolution, dark-eyed, Harvard-trained Physician Arias had been started up the diplomatic ladder by his brother Harmodio. Harmodio was elected President in 1932, sent Arnulfo as Minister to Berlin, then to Rome. Last year he was Minister to Great Britain and France. Still political small fry, only 38 years old, and accused of Fascist inclinations after his Axis appointments, Arnulfo had hardly been considered a contender for the Presidency this year...
Ambitious, hotheaded young Dr. Arnulfo Arias bounced brashly into Panamanian politics nine years ago when he led a handful of youthful revolutionaries into the Presidential Palace, forced the resignation of President Florencio Arosemena. Up to the vacated post stepped First Vice President Dr. Ricardo Alfaro. Last year Drs. Arias and Alfaro toed off for the 1940-44 Presidency...
Despite the piety of his two dead wives, Dictator Calles is well known to rate in the Vatican's estimation as a ruthless enemy of Rome (TIME, July 26, 1926, et seq.). Cried Chief Tabasco Delegate Arnulfo Perez: "Where is the God who cannot see the lack of food and all the misery of the common people but can see the pomp and splendor of the Pope? . . . God did not create man. . . . God exists only in books, by which the priests exploit the poor! Man created God, and God only exists in petrified souls. . . . Mexico wants...