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Ecuador. At Callao, Peru, Secretary Hull and party boarded the sleek, sumptuous Grace Liner Santa Barbara. So did the Pan-American delegations of Nicaragua, Haiti. Salvador, Mexico, Guatemala. Off La Libertad, Ecuador the Santa Barbara with her load of diplomacy stopped briefly, but not long enough for Secretary Hull to pay even a flying visit to the Capital. However, a boatload of welcoming Ecuadorian officials scrambled aboard, were treated to food & oratory at Secretary Hull's expense...
...Isis (under graduate weekly), Peter Fleming got a formal education that well fitted him for a literary editor's desk. But. instead, after leaving Oxford he went to Manhattan, worked in Wall Street for several months during the summer of 1929. He disliked it, went to Guatemala as a railway in spector, then back to London to work for a Cabinet committee, "writing monumental treatises on the tsetse fly and the trawler fleet." He joined the staff of the London Spectator, became literary editor, eight months later went to China. Five months after he got back...
...citizens who might be pardoned for never quite gathering who was fighting whom, will welcome Author Sullivan's introductory table of Declarations of War, which makes it clear, for instance, that whereas Siam fought both Germany and Austria but not Turkey. Guatemala fought only Germany. Besides numerous cartoons, war maps, newspaper headlines, Compiler Sullivan has exhumed many a curious highlight from the museumed files. Some of them: versions (bowdlerized) of the bawdy war song. "Mademoiselle from Armentieres"; "gasless Sunday." when every patriot did his bit by parking his car in the garage for the day; the late Theodore Roosevelt...
...President Roosevelt last week stepped Career Diplomat Sheldon Whitehouse up from Minister to Guatemala to Minister to Colombia. An urbane gentleman with wavy hair and elegant manners. Minister Whitehouse was educated at Eton and Yale, got into the Foreign Service as private secretary to the late great Whitelaw Reid when the New York Tribune publisher was Ambassador to Great Britain. As counsel of the Paris embassy in 1927 he was roundly flayed in Congress when it was discovered that sleuths had been sent after New York's Mayor Walker as that playboy took his fun in Paris...
...From volcano-cursed Nicaragua to volcano-cursed Guatemala President Roosevelt last week shifted Minister Matthew Elting Hanna (no kin to the late great Marcus Alonzo Hanna) to succeed Mr. Whitehouse. Graduate of West Point, Mr. Hanna turned career diplomat in 1917. From Managua's 1931 earthquake Minister Hanna emerged a local hero...