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Haiti. One island: two republics. Republic of Haiti: blacks and French mulattos. Dominican Republic: Spanish Creoles, scrambled mulattos, Indians. Dominicans speak Spanish, Haitians hear French. Santo Domingo seems still a 16th Century Spanish town and is the oldest European settlement in the Western Hemisphere. Toussaint L'Ouverture, "The Black Bolivar," won Haitian independence from Emperor Napoleon. Today the U. S. maintains a nebulous protectorate to check the once incessant revolutions at Port au Prince, Haiti. In back country Haiti are congo folk, who practice voodoo rites. Columbus discovered the island and named it "Hispaniola," (Espagnola) Little Spain...
Followed an anthem which practically no one knew, the national song of Mexico. Jet-eyed young José Munoz-Cota of the National Preparatory School (Mexico City) required no further encouragement to launch again upon his famed oration "Bolivar and the Latin-American Peoples" with which he defeated all-comers for the Mexican title (TIME, June 28). Master José's audience understood but little of what he said, for he spoke in purest Spanish. The final oration, by Maxime Raymond Fuel of Nancy, France, was also unintelligible to most of those present though it sounded very well...
Will you kindly permit me to call attention to two inaccuracies in your excellent article on Simon Bolivar, entitled "Hero," in your issue of June 28, 1926 [EDUCATION...
...third paragraph you speak of Bolivar liberating Central America. This allusion certainly would create a misconception in the mind of anyone not familiar with Spanish-American history. As the only part of Central America, properly socalled, liberated by Bolivar was the Republic of Panama you could hardly refer to him in that manner...
...second point is in regard to the Liberator being sustained in perpetual office until his death, the last paragraph. As a matter of fact, Bolivar resigned on the 1st of March, 27th of April or the 4th of May, 1830, according to how one wishes to view his various resignations. As he died on the 17th of December while he was endeavoring to leave Colombia, he hardly held office up to the time of his death, although there was an effort to place him back in power at the moment of his demise...