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...piled up a terrific Conservative majority. Barrios fell. First Lerroux, then Samper became Premier. Month after month Socialists, Syndicalists, Communists have seen the country swing further and further to the Right. There is definite threat of a semi-Fascist dictatorship. Radicals of all complexions from the rose-pink of Manuel Azana to the black anarchism of innumerable hotheads joined for a final attempt at revolution...
Mexico has no diplomatic relations with the Soviet Union, but Mexican Foreign Minister Jose Manuel Puig Casauranc was asked by the three Great Powers what would be the attitude of Mexico toward Russia's entry in the League. Vexed, Dr. Puig Casauranc revealed the pressure thus put upon him to correspondents. "I replied to the three powers," he snapped, "that Mexico, in ceaseless pursuit of international cooperation for the safeguarding of peace, hopes that the admission of Russia will strengthen the League's authority." Asked if this meant that Mexico might soon resume diplomatic relations with Russia. Dr. Puig Casauranc...
...clock every good diplomat should be at the tea table. At 5 o'clock one afternoon last week five diplomats were sitting down in the State Department to pen and ink. There were Dr. Cosme de la Torriente. Cuban Secretary of State, Dr. Manuel Marquez Sterling, Cuban Ambassador to Washington, and Secretary Hull. There also were Assistant Secretary Sumner Welles and Jefferson Caffery, the past and present Ambassadors to Cuba. Their purpose was to set their hands and seals upon the first reciprocal trade agreement negotiated under the new tariff bargaining law (TIME, June 18). A few minutes later...
Ambassador Caffery was required to take his risky stroll because at that very hour in Washington the U. S. was making over its diplomatic relations with Cuba. At the State Department, Secretary Hull and Dr. Manuel Marquez Sterling, Cuba's Ambassador, were signing a treaty to replace the fundamental compact made between the U. S. and Cuba in 1903. The new agreement omitted the famed "Platt Amendment...
...last week Sergio Osmena and Manuel Quezon, the two great leaders of the Philippine Nationalist party, marched into the Philippine legislature arm in arm. Their appearance in that fashion was greeted with surprise and applause, for they had been political enemies since a year ago when Congress offered the Philippines freedom and Senor Quezon succeeded in defeating acceptance of the offer...