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...United Fruit Co. owns nearly 1,160 miles of railroad in Jamaica, Colombia, Costa Rica, Panama, Honduras and Guatemala. In Guatemala, where the Fruit Co. has more than 3,000 men working on 16,000 acres of bananas, it owns 137 miles of track. The principal Guatemalan banana road, however, is International Railways of Central America, which operates some 800 miles of track from the Pacific to the Caribbean with a branch down through Salvador on the West coast. Last week a deal was in progress by which United Fruit would strengthen its already strong hold upon International Railways...
Already open to traffic for several months, this $20,000,000 road is paved all the way except for one 69-mile gap. To dedicate it, Mexico planned elaborate ceremonies at Nuevo Laredo, including a motorcade of 50 distinguished U. S., Mexican and Guatemalan citizens traveling over the road. Leaving the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia last week, Vice President Garner journeyed south to Texas to head the U. S. delegation part...
...proposals by the Guatemalan President, General Jorge Ubico, to President Roosevelt for a multilateral adherence by American nations to the Monroe Doctrine is striking evidence that the countries of the Western Hemisphere are moving toward an understanding with the United States, more cordial and genuine that at any time since, perhaps, the days of Henry Clay in the 1820's. Ever since the Mexican War of 1848 they have developed a hatred and distrust for the United States which is not only sullen, but understandable. Sullen in that our very size and power have precluded any effective reprisals on their...
...State Department has been irate ever since the munitions inquiry began in September over the disclosures of graft paid to foreign officials: "Commissions" to the head of the Nicaraguan National Guard with the knowledge of President Sacasa; "presents" to General Padilla, Guatemalan Minister of War, to permit the importation of "sporting" guns; to a Mexican general "to make his life more pleasant" to a citizen of Honduras who "always gets permits because he advances money to public officials including the President himself" a 4% commission to Chinese officials on a Chinese powder purchase. This a du Pont official admitted...
...Hotel where they abandoned their professional character to participate in a drama portraying the Sino-Japanese situation from September 1931 up to two weeks ago. The characters ranged from that of Sir John Simon which was taken by A. N. Holcombe '06, professor of government to that of the Guatemalan delegate to the League which was portrayed by G. H. Parker '87, professor of Zoology...