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Parliament building at Lima. The cruiser Almirante Grau flagship of the Peruvian navy (13 vessels) steamed out to meet the Maryland. U.S. Ambassador-to-Peru, Alexander Pollock Moore had his shoes shined extra-specially and congratulated himself again and again on being where he was in the middle of things as usual...
...shores of the potato's native land* are walled by mountains which majestically echoed the salutes and counter-salutes of nations as the Maryland steamed in. Motors waited in Callao to carry the Hoovers up to Lima, perhaps the best U.S.-advertised city in South America, thanks to its non-existent Bridge of San Luis...
Culturally the hant monde of Lima is on a par with the similar aristocracy of Madrid, Rome and Paris. The other side of the medal must show the appalling backwardness and almost total illiteracy of the masses, a huge majority of which are Indians. Probably the great, feudal families of Peru are in no hurry to pump education or ideas into toilers who work so cheaply. Chief of the aristocratic oligarchs is Augusto B. Leguia, who is now relishing his third term as President of Peru. Twenty years ago Señor Leguia was called "The Bantam Roosevelt of Peru...
Peru. The first capital city founded by Europeans in any of the Americas was Lima (see Map). This was the "City of Kings," the very mecca of Spain's rash conquistadors, the "fairest gem on the shores of the Pacific," and the haughty citadel from which the Spanish Viceroy proclaimed his rule over "the entire Continent of South America...
...conquered in later turn by Renaissance Spain. After three centuries of Spanish rule-galleons, slaves and sweated gold-romance in Peru was still at full tide. Only then came Simon Bolivar-hero of a continent-to end the Spanish rule of South America where it began, in Lima. In consequence Mr. & Mrs. Herbert Hoover can visit no South American capital whatsoever without finding, in some especially public place, a statue of BOLIVAR. Though born a Venezuelan his exploits included becoming President of Peru and having Bolivia named after...