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...time. Those who want to see or buy Mexican art are having it easier & easier. In San Francisco, Detroit, Manhattan and Hanover, N. H., distinguished murals have been painted by Artists Diego Rivera and José Clemente Orozco. Into Mexico City, where there are more & better Mexican paintings, the Inter-American Highway running south from Laredo, Tex., has piped thousands of U. S. tourists since its opening last year. Last week important shows in three U. S. cities gave art followers a fresh triangulation on Mexican...
...Senate he sent eight treaties, conventions and protocols drafted at the Inter-American Conference last winter in Buenos Aires. From a treaty for the preservation of peace to a convention to facilitate the holding of international art exhibitions, he strongly recommended them all for ratification...
...would President Roosevelt have spoken before the Inter-American Peace Conference last December had he spoken in Gloro.* This artificial language, which has been worked on for several years, was described in Manhattan last week by its inventor, Dr. Max Talmey, small, twinkling, 70-year-old eye specialist and amateur linguist. In its earlier stages Dr. Talmey called Gloro "Arulo" (Auxiliary Rational Universal Language). Its new name is derived from a phrase of Gloro: gloto racionoza (rational language...
...Make Democracy Succeed." Early in his speech, referring to co-operation between President and Congress, Franklin Roosevelt declared, "You and I ... helped to make democracy succeed." In referring to the "great and permanent achievement" of the Inter-American Peace Conference, the phrase slipped in again: "The masses of the peoples of all the Americas are convinced that the democratic form of government can be made to succeed." In his peroration that phrase became a dart which he flung again & again against the Supreme Court which he never mentioned by name...
...Secretary Hull persuaded all 21 American countries to sign a treaty for immediate consultation among all in case of war anywhere in the world; 2) He secured similar unanimous adoption of a declaration of Inter-American solidarity, making the Monroe Doctrine no longer one-sided but 21-sided; 3) The three-year-old Anti-Intervention protocol, under which intervention by an American state in the affairs of another is "inadmissable," was rousingly reaffirmed...