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...Hughes said it would be most gratifying indeed for the two neighboring Repupblics of Colombia and Panama to enter into regular diplomatic relations and he, therefore, asked the Minister of Colombia whether it would please the Government of Colombia to receive the representative that the Government of Panama would accredit. . . . He further inquired whether Colombia would also be prepared to accredit a Minister to Panama...
...Olaya said that he was authorized by his government to state officially to the Panaman Minister that the Republic of Colombia recognizes Panama as an independent nation and that his Government would be pleased to receive the duly accredited agent whom the Republic of Panama would despatch. . . . He added that the Government of Colombia would also be pleased to accredit a Minister to the Republic of Panama...
Hookworm work was carried on during the year in Jamaica, Leeward Islands, Saint Lucia, Trinidad, Porto Rico, Costa Rica, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, Panama, Salvador, Colombia, Dutch Guiana, Brazil, Australia, Fiji, Siam, Ceylon, Mainland India, Mauritius...
...there conducted a fight against yellow fever (he discovered its organism). Similar work was done in Peru, Ecuador, Central America and Mexico, President Vincent said, with the result that in 1923 no cases of the disease were reported in Mexico, Central America, Ecuador or Peru; an outbreak in Colombia was put under observation; control measures were under way in Northern Brazil and workers were in training to resume study of the disease along the coast of West Africa...
...maps, the vast inland wilderness surounding the uncertain juncture of Venezuela, Colombia, Brazil gives the impression of being as well known to the world as the valley of the Mississippi. On the contrary, few white men have ever penetrated it. Here are the scenes of all sorts of fantastic romances, like Conan Doyle's The Lost World and W. H. Hudson's Green Mansions. Here is the fascinating stream called the Casiquiare, reputed to flow both ways and to connect the Rio Negro, largest northern tributary of the Amazon, with the Orinoco. Here nations have not yet ceased...