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...horseback and on foot, 300 Colombian peasants in ponchos and floppy felt hats trekked through the jungles and coffee fincas to a settlement in the Andean backlands 25 miles outside Bogotá. The men carried leaflets: "Viva the organized masses!" A Red caudillo, Víctor Julio Merchán, delivered a welcoming harangue, and the stubble-bearded troop responded with a clenched-fist salute. From an equally isolated redoubt not far to the east, a second Red band, commanded by Juan de la Cruz Varela, peddled at gunpoint 1 peso coupons bearing Lenin's picture and the appeal...
...bosses, Merchán in Viotá, Varela in Sumapaz, are as much masters of their lands as any feudal lord. They fly a hammer-and-sickle flag, liquidate or banish dissenters, brainwash the populace with dinning P.A. systems, maintain their own efficient militia backed by arsenals that include machine guns and mortars. They even collect their own taxes, currently set at 10% of harvests...
Last Saturday, President Coolidge promoted Brigadier General Merch Bradt Stewart, U. S. A., to be Major General Stewart. On Tuesday, Major General Stewart retired from the Army, pleading physical disability. When he did so, the U. S. Military Academy at West Point, N. Y., lost its superintendent...
...Point dance in October; how she returned two weeks later with her mother to watch him march in the rain; how, the day before sailing, she rushed up to West Point to have luncheon with Cadet Glasgow (and others). She had invited him to luncheon in Manhattan, but Superintendent Merch B. Stewart of West Point had said...
...reciprocity treaty would settle the vexed fisheries question-Hunt's Merch...