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...were acting in a manner deliberately premature when they recognized Franco. Spokesmen at Berlin and at Rome made ingenious comparisons, asking foreign correspondents to reflect on precedents afforded by their own governments. Thus President Theodore Roosevelt, whether or not he provoked an insurgent rising in the United States of Colombia, made haste to recognize the insurgents in the Colombian province of Panama and as his reward obtained the Canal Zone, ultimately squaring Colombia with $25,000,000. Had Colombia, instead, taken a belligerent course, reconquering Panama and the Zone, the prestige of Washington would have suffered as much as will...
...carry its 50,000,000 bunches of bananas yearly from plantations to the sea, United Fruit Co. owns nearly 1,160 miles of railroad in Jamaica, Colombia, Costa Rica, Panama, Honduras and Guatemala. In Guatemala, where the Fruit Co. has more than 3,000 men working on 16,000 acres of bananas, it owns 137 miles of track. The principal Guatemalan banana road, however, is International Railways of Central America, which operates some 800 miles of track from the Pacific to the Caribbean with a branch down through Salvador on the West coast. Last week a deal was in progress...
...orders from abroad went for 294 aircraft ($6,416,369); 409 engines ($1,902,768); spare parts ($3,100,270); parachutes ($220,043). Best U. S. customer was China, which paid $1,780,739 for 34 airplanes, 13 engines, various parts. Next biggest buyers were: Argentina ($237,670); Colombia ($148,002); Italy ($113,351); French Equatorial Africa...
...Rene Belbenoit, am a fugitive. . . ." On his most recent break for liberty, incorrigible Rene Belbenoit reached Trinidad with five other starving convicts in a leaky canoe, was equipped with food and a new lifeboat by the sympathetic British and set to sea again. Reaching Colombia finally, he struggled for months across the wet sand and through the jungle toward Panama...
...James Stewart Cushman, vice president of the World Y. W. C. A., put up Dr. Buchman. Other hostesses to the visiting Groupers included Mrs. Edward V. Hartford, sister-in-law of the Great Atlantic & Pacific grocers; Mrs. Sheldon Whitehouse, wife of the onetime U. S. Minister to Guatemala and Colombia; Countess Laszlo Szechenyi, who was Gladys Vanderbilt...