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Leftist Spain: 70,024 sq. mi...
Rightist Gain: 9,503 sq. mi...
...Alfonso XIII, then King of Spain, awarded 10,000 sq. mi. to Honduras as umpire in that country's land squabble with Nicaragua. During the past two years both countries have been engaged in a battle of postage stamps bearing maps showing the disputed territory as part of their own domain. Last week the U. S. Government found Nicaraguan and Honduran passions running so high that with Costa Rica and Venezuela it offered its "good offices" to mediate. This offer both little states promptly accepted, slimming chances of any clash. Onetime Nicaraguan President José Maria Moncada denied...
French-speaking, Negro Haiti with an area of 10,204 sq. mi. has a population (2,550,000) almost twice that of Spanish-speaking, mainly Mestizo Dominican Republic, area 19,332 sq. mi. For years, overcrowded Haitians have been slipping over the border, squatting on Dominican land. Fortnight ago the border villages blazed with fire and the banging of musketry. When the smoke cleared, over 300 were dead on Dominican soil, mostly Haitian squatters, their wives and children. Nervous authorities in both countries feared reprisals...
...Butler, Pa. under the leadership of a onetime Austin salesman named Roy Samuel Evans who has had a genuine Horatio Alger career (see p. 63). Made up as coupé, roadster or truck, the Bantam "60" is 120 in. overall, has four cylinders, is claimed to get 60 mi. per gal. of gas, 60,000 mi. per set of tires, 60 m.p.h. speed. Production begins this month, is scheduled for 10,000 for the coming year, 60% trucks, 40% passenger models...