Word: colombia
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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That the Latin-American peoples are lovers of liberty their history shows. Bolivar, not content with liberating his own Venezuela, likewise liberated Colombia, Bolivia, Equador and Peru. More than one Porto Rican died in the Cuban "manigua" fighting for the liberties of the sister isle. And it is this very love of liberty, I honestly believe, that has caused friction and misunderstanding between the great republic of the North and the peoples south of the Rio Grande. They believe that the rights of Colombia, Santo Domingo, or Porto Rico, are every bit as sacred as the rights of Argentina...
...necessary to understand political conditions in Colombia to grasp the the position of that country in international affairs," declared Phanor J. Eder, LL.B., in a lecture in Emerson J yesterday morning. "Colombia is practically an oligarchy. A few thousand people in the country control public opinion absolutely. Those people are very sensitive, and this must be taken into consideration in dealing with them. It is almost impossible for us to conceive a people with no political education, but the Colombians have none. In their early years they get none of that social education which is the real foundation...
...Colombians say that we violated the Treaty of 1846 when we acquired the Canal Zone in 1903. To my mind there has been no effective answer to this. The Treaty of 1846 provided that we should guarantee the neutrality of Panama and should guarantee the sovereignty of Colombia there, in return for which we were to get important commercial concessions. History shows that we repeatedly reassured Colombia that the treaty would be adhered to, and in the late' seventies we told the European powers that any interference in Colombia affairs would be considered obnoxious by the United States...
...closing, "but I also think that we should recognize this as a violation of treaty rights, and we should be willing to make reparation. It is necessary to preserve the good relations with South America. If not, they will think our treaties scraps of paper. The treaty with Colombia should be ratified by the Senate. It is not a party measure but concerns our whole South American policy...
...Phanor J. Edor speaks on Colombia. Emerson...