Word: ecuador
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Like the Isthmus Republics and Mexico, embroiled last week in its own election turbulence, Venezuela, Colombia and Ecuador lie directly within the U. S. orbit and on their friendliness depends the security of the canal...
...colleagues have completed a primary text of Basic English for Spanish-speaking peoples which will be published by Houghton Mifflin. They have also completed a first-year primer with a Portuguese text for Brazil. Two of them, Mr. & Mrs. Robert Tucker, left last month for Quito, Ecuador, to establish there a Basic English School and to study the results of next autumn's broadcasts. This school will have a competitor, for there is already a well-subsidized German school in Quito...
...face of bans placed on demonstrations for or against any belligerents, a wild anti-Italian riot and shouts of "Long live France!" greeted Baron di Fontana Degli Angeli Gioacchino Scaduto Mendola, new Italian Minister to Ecuador, when he presented his credentials...
...part, however, official reactions were more coolheaded, if no less decisive. In Colombia, the Government-owned airline, Avianca (formed by the merger of Colombia's Saco Co. and the German Scadta System), fired all its German employes, arranged with Pan American Airways for U. S. pilots and instructors. Ecuador took steps to get rid of the Italian military mission which has been training her Army for 15 years. Argentina hastily sent her fleet of efficient river gunboats to patrol the river frontiers of Uruguay, Paraguay and Brazil, rushed frontier guards into Entre Rios Province, where a Nazi plot...
...beyond the Chicago and Kansas City grain pits, fluttered over the whole U. S. economy. Because Latin America could no longer sell to Europe, its purchases in the U. S. fell off by $10,000,000 as early as April, have remained well under the first-quarter peak. Ecuador, for lack of foreign exchange, last week had to duck out of her reciprocal trade agreement and cut some imports by 50%. The Pan American Coffee Conference, meeting in Manhattan last week, tried to decide what to do with 924,000,000 lb. of coffee that used to go annually...