Word: colombia
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...exclusively against the Jews, directly or indirectly. [For example, in South America where the post-1933 immigration has swelled the Jewish population about 30%, Argentina will now admit Jews only if they have relatives in the country; Bolivia bars "Semitic elements"; Brazil admits few but Catholics; Chile, Bolivia and Colombia clamped down after illegal visa scandals.] The era of . . . mass immigration that brought 2,460,495 Jews to the U.S. alone during the years 1881-1941 is now at an end. Apparently no country is willing to receive immigrants of this category in any sizable number...
...trial on the more serious charge: "movement of a subversive character against the constituted powers." Police were ordered to arrest Anibal Rios the moment he set foot in Panama. Vice President Rios stood on his constitutional rights ("Come what may, I am going to serve"), but discreetly remained in Colombia...
...special sideshow to these "Little Olympics," the Argentina Auto Club has challenged U.S. auto racers to a 14,000-mile dash from Washington to Buenos Aires-via the Pan American Highway to Mexico City and Panama, by boat to Venezuela, thence through Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia, Chile and across the Andes to Buenos Aires...
Alaska 2, Argentina 9, Australia 2, Austria 11, Belgium 1, Bermuda 2, Brazil 4, Bulgaria 1, Canada 51, Canal Zone 2, Chile 1, China 47, Colombia 6, Costa Rica 2, Cuba 4, Czechoslovakia 13, Denmark 2, Dominican Republic 1, Egypt 1, England 22, Finland 2, France 12, Germany 41, Greece 5, Guatemala 2, Haiti 1, Hawaii 21, Hungary 3, India 1, Italy 6, Jamaica 1, Japan 8, Lithuania 1, Luxembourg 1, Mexico 6, New Zealand 1, Norway 4, Panama 3, Paraguay 1, Peru 10, Philippine Islands 8, Poland 2, Puerio Rico 10, Romania 3, Russia 4, Scotland 1, South Africa...
...Colombia. In Colombia, bootblacks shine your shoes with orange peel, everybody always carries an umbrella, people consume "fantastic quantities of Scotch" at $7 a bottle, and are so polite that they call North Americans misteres instead of gringos. President Dr. Eduardo Santos is a newspaperman; the Foreign Minister (Dr. Luis Lopez de Mesa) is a psychological novelist. The first Colombian Author Gunther met was an interviewer who asked: "Do you think that intellectual fermentations, as represented by the left-wing element of the first phase of the first New Deal, are on the whole more beneficial to democracy than otherwise...