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Last week tempers in Lima and Quito were shorter than usual. Each capital suspected that the other was trying to buy U.S. support with concessions. Other American capitals suspected, with more reason, that Axis and pro-Axis provocateurs had planted and watered the first suspicion. The Spanish Ambassador to Peru, Pablo de Churruca, Marqués de Aycinena, who once studied the problem for Arbiter Alfonso XIII, was shrewdly suspected of having put pressure on Peru to hold out for a lion's share of the territory...
...collection includes, besides the Paracas polychrome jar in the shape of a human face, two early Nazca bags in rich reds and greens, one with a rythmic pattern of liamas, and a splendidly designed polychrome vessel with a painting of lima bean shoots on it. Another vessel is ornamented with a serpent pattern. A large female figures from Chancay shows the sophistication of Peruvian coastal art about 1200 A.D. Four smaller figurines showing costume types complete the collection. Also on exhibit is another object of great rarity at present on loan in the Museum. It is the figure...
...three very different Americans for this success-the hemispheric consciousness of President Roosevelt, the simple candor of Cordell Hull and the behind-the-scenes effectiveness of Sumner Welles. Says Author Wertenbaker: "The President is the idea man, Hull translates the ideas into policy, Welles attends to the details." At Lima, Hull singlehandedly held the anti-hemispheric forces to a draw. How strong these forces are Wertenbaker makes clear in his sections on Nazi activities in South America, especially the Uruguay incident which compelled the U. S. to send a cruiser to Montevideo for fear of a Nazi uprising
Married. Constance Winant, 20, only daughter of Ambassador John Gilbert Winant, student at the university in Lima; and Carlos Valando, 22, Peruvian scientist; at Chincha, Peru. They flew to the U. S. for a second ceremony before Ambassador Winant leaves for London...
After the tumor peeled off, the patient was troubled with a new growth the size of "a large lima bean." When the doctors injected into it an arsenic compound, the lump disappeared in a few days. The patient lived "free from tumor" for two years, finally died of heart failure...