Word: himly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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As it must to all men, death came last week to the youngest, most thoroughgoing dictator in the Western Hemisphere. At La Paz, loftiest capital of the Americas, sad-eyed, 35-year-old President Lieut. Colonel German Busch gave a birthday party in his home for his Japanese brother-in...
"Condor of the Andes" was the style his countrymen gave this thoughtful, daring son of a German settler and Bolivian mother after he, in his late twenties, explored the wild Zamucos region. He served brilliantly in the Chaco War, afterwards was high in the military junta. When President Sorzano ruled...
Financial mainstays of German Busch's new Bolivia were to be the properties of Standard Oil, which he confiscated in 1937, and of foreign mining interests. Capital to build Government-dominated tin foundries (the Bolivian mines of Tycoon Simon I. Patiño produce about 15% of the world...
Since Oriental diplomacy and even war are nine-tenths Face, Japan's greatest shock aside from losing potential armed support against Russia was that Germany had not whispered a word of warning. Ambassador to Berlin Hiroshi Oshima hurried around to see Joachim von Ribbentrop soon after he got back...
They were elated, too, over the visit to their capital of Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru, onetime President of the Indian National Congress-the first important Indian to go to China since Rabindranath Tagore 15 years ago. Rumors of Japanese penetration in India have worried China; and the friendship of another downtrodden...