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...streets, stopped U.S. citizens to retell the story. A taxi driver named Juan Gomez said: "I even cry when I hear this. To think that the most powerful man in the world would come and apologize." Many a man of wealth and influence agreed. Said Engineer Ramon Ayala: "One hundred years of misunderstanding and bitterness wiped out by one man in one minute. That is the best neighbor policy...
...least one section of world Jewry took the Government's list calmly. In Palestine, young, race-conscious refugee Jews have been prompt to rid themselves of such German names as Hans, Fritz, Gretchen. Popular today among Palestinian youths are, for males, Uri, Shmuel, Micha; for females, Brocha, Ayala, Ruth. So, in Manhattan last week, reported Mrs. David B. Greenberg, national chairman of "Youth Aliyah," an immigration service sponsored in the U. S. by Hadassah, Women's Zionist Organization. Mrs. Greenberg was pleased to see Hadassah- Biblical name of Esther, Jewish queen and nemesis of the Persian plotter Haman...
...person to the very border of Bolivia proper. Something seemed wrong when their commanding officer, General José Felix Estigarribia, marched them home to poverty-stricken Paraguay, when Foreign Minister Luis Riart signed a modest peace protocol with Bolivia, when the Paraguayan Congress approved it and when President Eusebio Ayala ordered the Paraguayan Army demobilized and Bolivian prisoners returned to Bolivia. The Army had won the war; the politicians were throwing away the victory. Last month General Estigarribia charged Colonel Franco with organizing a so-called National Front of 42,000 War veterans and planning a coup...
...around the chief square of Paraguay's capital of Asunción. At 7 o'clock they seized the railway station and two radio stations, broke off telephone, telegraph and rail communications and advanced on the Government forces in the nearby police headquarters. Against the veterans President Ayala had only the police and the crews of the Paraguayan Navy's five gunboats. The gunboats dropped shells into the square. The veterans replied with their old trench mortars. That night the President fled to a gunboat whence he radioed his resignation. He was confined in the marine barracks...
Troubled with gallstones, Mexico's Boss Plutarco Elias Calles summoned Dr. Abraham Ayala Gonzalez, chief of the Federal Health Department, to his ranch in Sinaloa. Minister of Communications Rodolfo Calles chartered an airplane, flew with his father and Dr. Ayala Gonzalez to Los Angeles. There General Calles was operated upon, his condition afterwards declared "very satisfactory...