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Watchful observers noted that the new deputies, all hand-picked by Il Duce, are nearly all men of elder-middle age. The one exception is 25-year-old Deputy Marcelo Diaz, son of the late Marshal Diaz, "Foch of Italy...
...Susquehanna Rivers, from Manhattan to Washington, to serve as Secretary of War. President Wilson commissioned him a colonel of artillery and sent him across the Atlantic to fight with the 77th Division. President Coolidge despatched him first, across the Caribbean to Nicaragua to patch up a peace between Diaz and Sacasa and later across the Pacific to be Governor General of the Philippines. President Hoover recalled him to sit at his right hand at the Cabinet table...
Nicaragua. President-Elect Hoover had not yet seen a Latin American President, though at Amapala, President-Elect Colindres of Honduras had appeared. At Corinto, not only President Adolfo Diaz was present but also onetime-President Frutos Chamorro, "Conservative" leader of 17 revolutions in the past four years, and President-Elect Jose Maria Moncada, "Liberal" leader whose election was overseen by U. S. Marines. All three boarded the Maryland to break bread and discuss common desires. At a shore reception, Mr. Hoover had been handed a glass of champagne which he politely touched to his lips...
Common desires expressed by MM. Diaz, Moncada & Chamorre were, a) To retain some U. S. Marines to continue training the Nicaraguan national guard; b) to persuade the U. S. soon to build the long-planned interoceanic canal across Nicaragua, for which a treaty and $3,000,000 have already been furnished. One of the canal's original promoters, Judge Henry Douglas Pierce of Indianapolis, who first traversed the proposed route from west to east half a century ago, was in Nicaragua on one of many missions which have brought Nicaraguan leaders to favor the project. Judge Pierce, stricken with...
...year ago the State Department was requested by President Diaz of Nicaragua to send down an expert to survey Nicaragua's finances. Nicaragua needed more money. U. S. bankers were wary of loaning more money to a country already requiring U. S. Marines to put it in order and thus safeguard present U. S. loans & property. The State Department assigned the survey to Dr. William Wilson Cumberland, who was just through serving as U. S. financial dictator of Haiti. Dr. Cumberland went, saw and reported last March to Secretary Kellogg on the fiscal state of Nicaragua. President Diaz took...