Word: guatemala
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Central American revolutions have caused many a jape from the pens of Richard Harding Davis and O. Henry. Guatemala lived up to the requirements of fiction last week by having three presidents in seven days. It was a serious matter to the Guatemalans; it became an embarrassing matter to the U. S. State Department. Fortnight ago General Lazaro Chacon, President of Guatemala since 1927, was suddenly stricken with what physicians described as a cerebral hemorrhage, forced to resign the presidency because of illness, He was succeeded by one Baudilio Palma, Second Designate under the Constitution,* and President Palma was found...
...Minister been in his Legation in Guatemala City last fortnight, it is possible that President Hoover and Statesman Stimson might have been spared this new dilemma. The U. S. Minister might have reported the existence of violent opposition to Senor Palma, might have advised Washington to back no horses at all for at least...
...Minister to Guatemala is Sheldon Whitehouse, an urbane gentleman with naturally wavy hair and a cultivated voice (he is one of the extremely few U. S. diplomatists who have been schooled at Eton). Onetime private secretary of the late great Whitelaw Reid, he married the daughter of Mrs. Charles Beatty Alexander. He served with some eclat as Counselor of the U. S. Embassy in Paris and Madrid. In 1927, as Charge d'Affaires in Paris, he made news by setting detectives to watch over New York's playful Mayor James John ("Jimmy") Walker. No one supposed that Diplomatist...
...Guatemala the Vice President, the Secretary of State and Cabinet members in order of departmental seniority do not succeed the President in case of illness or death SK in the U. S., but First and Second ''Designates" are chosen by Congress...
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