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...special value to small banks which have found their defaulted bonds altogether unsalable. A onetime professor of finance at Northwestern University, Analyst Lagerquist was an investment counselor at Manhattan's Irving Trust Co., served on Dr. Edwin Walter Kemmerer's finance commission to the Republic of Colombia in 1930, now has his own investment counsel firm...
Away from Fort Saavedra there were abundant signs last week that both countries were heartily sick of their undeclared war. For months an international commission of delegates from the U. S., Colombia, Cuba, Mexico, Uruguay has been dangling a peace plan before the combatants. Chief point was that each side should retire ten miles, leaving a 20-mi. neutral strip while final peace negotiations went on. Bolivia would not agree to this at first while she was advancing. Paraguay pooh-poohed the idea while she was capturing one jungle fort after another. Last week with both sides stalemated at Fort...
...advance summary of Japan's rebuttal appeared the day before in the Tokyo Press. This summary recalled an embarrassing precedent: in setting up Manchukuo she did no more than Theodore Roosevelt did in sending Marines to help Panama's revolution against Colombia. Well circulated in the world Press, the Panama parallel was tactfully removed from the official text...
...extend my hearty felicitations on this memorable occasion." President Hoover cabled President Arias on the twenty-ninth anniversary of the Republic of Panama. The "memorable occasion": Nov. 2, 1903-U. S. S. Nashville arrives at Colon; Nov. 3-Panama revolts from Colombia, declares its independence; Nov. 4-the revolutionary leader exclaims: "President Roosevelt has made good! Long live President Roosevelt! Long live the American Government!" Nov. 6-the U. S. recognizes the Panama Government; Nov. 18-the U. S. and Panama sign a canal treaty; Jan. 27, 1914- President Wilson opens the Panama Canal; April...
...could be learned a provincial clique of Peruvian Army Officers seized Leticia (TIME, Sept. 26) contrary to the Peruvian Government's wishes and continued to hold it last week, defying both their own Government and Colombia. "Our coup was made necessary," they announced, "by the harshness of Colombia in Colombianizing the ceded territory." (Leticia was ceded by Peru to Colombia...