Word: nicaragua
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...otherwise total dominance of the northern and western half of Spain by the Rightist forces. This territory last week was populated by 14,000,000 of Spain's 25,000,000 people in 35 of her 50 provinces. To the governments of Germany, Italy. Switzerland, Albania, El Salvador, Nicaragua and Guatemala it has been for almost a year an autonomous state. Significantly, the Vatican, too-which, whatever else may be said, works as hard over its diplomacy as any first class power-chose the day after Santander's fall to extend de facto recognition. Having cooled his heels...
America to the U. S. In the next seven years before he faced a 'Honduran firing squad, William Walker hoisted his own flag over "the independent Republic of Lower Californi," got himself elected President of Nicaragua, was involved in a fight with ten countries, became No. i U. S. soldier of fortune, alternately a hero, a joke and a villain. Told this week in The Filibuster, his story fills 350 large pages with an adventure story as absorbing, fast-moving and as incredible as any so far dug out of that period of sleazy brigandage below the Rio Grande...
Back on a newspaper, his boss, an enthusiast named Byron Cole, sold him on the idea of taking over Nicaragua. A fat prize, it turned out to be too fat-Walker had to meet competition from the feasting eyes of England, Spain, the U. S., the more glittering eye of Cornelius Vanderbilt, who controlled the lucrative transit route across Nicaragua. The deal by which Walker evaded U. S. neutrality laws provided that the Nicaraguan "Democrats" .invite him to send in "colonists." By the time the "Democrat" leaders realized what Walker was up to, it was too late to regret having...
...slow. I'll ruin you." After Vanderbilt had made good his promise. Walker still pig-headedly refused to talk business, thereby cutting off his one important source of outside help. His last and biggest mistake was to elect himself President of Nicaragua. He now faced the armies of all his Central American neighbor countries, brought U. S. and British battleships hurrying to blockade his ports against new recruits. A match for his Central American enemies, even when his man power had dropped to a few hundred, he did not try to fight off the U. S. naval commander...
...July last year the League of Nations had received six unwelcome letters from six Latin American countries-Costa Rica, Brazil, Paraguay, Guatemala, Nicaragua, Honduras-announcing their withdrawal from the League. Since withdrawal is provided for in the League's Covenant it must be accepted, and automatically takes effect two years after notice has been given...