Word: leguia
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Augusto B. Leguia, president of Peru, "bantam Mussolini," addressed to President Calles an appeal: "I view with deep sorrow the religious conflict which is developing in Mexico, that beautiful twin country of Peru. ... I take the liberty of begging Your Excellency to incline your powerful will toward the re-establishment of harmony with the Church...
Plutarco Elias Calles, president of Mexico, replied to President Leguia: "I must take the message from Your Excellency as a purely personal expression, which can in no way signify the interference of a foreign power in a matter of exclusively domestic nature...
...rescued from a sentence of execution arising out of his unquenchable revolutionary activities by a popular demonstration without its like in the history of Peru. His official "coronation" at Lima as "Poet of America" followed amid a general public festival. President Leguia, "the bantam Mussolini of Peru" (TIME, Dec. 7), bestowed upon him a golden laurel crown. With unique audacity he suggested that "the crown would be improved by the addition of a sufficient number of emeralds to give it a leafy green appearance." A subscription was raised. The emeralds were added...
...usually in protest to some of the letters from readers, rather than to the paper. I did, once, protest against an unjust portrayal of the President of this country evidently written by a person on the staff who had never "been here and much less known Mr. Leguia...
...Peru, President Agusto Leguia expressed himself to Washington as pleased with the award; both Houses of the Peruvian Congress passed favorable resolutions toward it, promised the President their support in fulfilling the terms of the decision. As Peru is generally held to have lost forever the two Provinces of Tacna and Arica by virtue of the fact that a plebiscite is sure to go against her, the official attitude of the President and Congress was possibly nothing more than diplomacy; for the fact remained that, according to newspaper reports, the Peruvians were hotly incensed at the award, and were about...