Word: bolivar
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Otto Wiedfeldt, German Ambassador to Washington (now vacationing abroad), went motoring a few weeks ago with various officials of the German Embassy. They exceeded the speed limit and were halted by the Law in the town of Bolivar, W. Va. Dr. Wiedfeldt explained his diplomatic immunities, but the justice of Bolivar was unimpressed. The Ambassador paid $5.60 rather than go to jail...
When he returned to Washington, Dr. Wiedfeldt wrote a note to Secrecretary Hughes asking the return of $5.60. The Secretary of State wrote to the Governor of West Virginia: the Governor wrote to the Road Commissioner; the Road Commissioner wrote to the Mayor of Bolivar in order that diplomatic usage and $5.60 might be restored...
...Simon Bolivar's dream of a closely-knit union of Pan-American states faded when only four delegates appeared at his first conference in 1826. The notion persisted, however, and inspired the first American International conference called by the United States fifty years later. That and succeeding conferences failed alike to produce a union, and probably nothing definite of that sort will result from the fifth Pan-American Conference, now in session at Santiago...
...have been offered by the delegates. Chile proposed an agreement to limit naval armaments following the example of the Four Power Treaty, and Uruguay suggested an American league of nations modelled after the lines of the World League. Together these plans might have gone far toward the realization of Bolivar's dream; but they have been dropped, and the conference, like its predecessors, becomes no more than an opportunity to create "mutual understanding...