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...vice president who does things is Julio A. Roca of Argentina. He went to London nine months ago to negotiate a special trade agreement necessitated by the Ottawa Conference's preference of Dominion meat for British markets, and to discuss foreign exchange. British firms have great sums frozen in Argentine banks through foreign exchange regulations. Before he left England, Vice President Roca sat down with President Walter Runciman of the British Board of Trade and initialed a treaty including an agreement whereby British firms anxious to get their money out of Argentina may buy with their blocked pesos...
...smacks Argentine revolts, bosses Congress (down whose retching throat he recently jammed Argentine adherence to the World Wheat Pact) and generally has fun. Last week neither the sudden discovery that agents of the Radical Party had perfected plots for a "general uprising," nor the sudden illness of Vice President Julio Roca could make President Justo change his plan of rolling up to Rio on a battleship...
Local Communists had announced that they would build a brick obelisk in Fraternity Park and place therein the ashes of one Julio Mella, a Red assassinated in 1929 allegedly by agents of Cuba's detested President Gerardo ("Butcher") Machado. If trouble should break out at the funeral it would give the Army a chance to shoot Reds. President Grau officially refused the Communists permission to build the obelisk, but the Army let Red bricklayers rush it to completion overnight...
...ordered War Minister Herrera into it, set off guarded by a machine gun squad to talk to the rebellious officers, who had gathered outside Havana at Camp Columbia. Promises, threats and a storm of rage from President Machado produced no result. The officers stood sullen until finally Lieut.-Colonel Julio Sanguilly, Chief of Aviation at Camp Columbia, spoke: "With all respect, General Machado, you must resign before noon tomorrow!" Other officers plucked up courage, made the same demand...
...points. Mexican soccer and basketball teams have multiplied in the last ten years. Mexico City's best professional baseball team, the Aztecas, is fully as competent as most C league teams in the U. S. Dignitaries like onetime Secretary of War General Joaquin Amaro, General Jaime Quinones, Julio Miller, whose father-in-law is Mexico's Minister to England, play fair polo at their club near Mexico City. The country's boss, Plutarco Elias Calles. prefers poker but he also enjoys riding, golf; he had a set of Bobby Jones clubs with him at Ensenada where...