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...poets might seize this news as a theme with a classic precedent. The classic precedent, however, contains an error. The traveler who first stood "silent upon a peak in Darien" was not "stout Cortez" (Hernando Cortez) as sung by Poet John Keats. It was Vasco Nunez De Balboa. Poets celebrating the proposed Roosevelt statue should bear in mind that Darien is an eastern dis- trict of the Republic of Panama, on the Caribbean side. Culebra Hill, upon which the Roosevelt statue will stand silent overlooking the spot where the last dikes were blasted to join ocean with ocean, is near...
...Balboa Heights, Canal Zone...
...take-off on Dec. 21 from San Antonio, Tex., the St. Louis broke an oil pump and burned out its motor. Another motor was fetched and installed, the other planes waiting. Leaving Guatemala City, the New York made a forced landing and lost its ground gear.* Taxiing out of Balboa harbor, off for Colombia, the San Antonio was snagged on a coral reef and the St. Louis had engine trouble. The cripples were mended, but the San Antonio again fell behind with engine trouble before Guayaquil, Ecuador, was reached. The others flew on, the San Antonio following as soon...
...intently, approached, looked again to make sure, and then said, with great respect: "Mr. Stevens, isn't it?" Or, "I don't s'pose you remember me, Mr. Stevens, but I'm. . . ." One of the oldtimers went to the telephone and rang up Balboa. When his train reached Balboa, John F. Stevens, onetime chief engineer of the Panama Canal, was welcomed at the station by Colonel Meriweather Walker, Governor of the Canal Zone...
...public is not dependent upon the Department of State for information as to its foreign relations. A synopsis of the U. S.- Panama treaty was given out by the Panama Government at Balboa immediately upon its being signed...