Word: oviedo
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...into effect by proclamation. In Santiago, Chile, El Impartial pointed out that the U. S., Britain and France were by no means the only countries guilty of keeping the slaughter going. Holland and Norway have sold the fighters rifle ammunition, Denmark. Madsen machine guns. Sweden, Bofors cannon. Spain, Oviedo rifles, Czechoslovakia's Brno Works, automatic rifles. How Paraguay paid for all this remained a mystery. Bolivia has financed the war without recourse to extreme taxation, entirely on tin, her greatest export...
...Treasure Room of Widener Library there is a specially interesting exhibition of some of the early editions of "La Historia General de las Indias," by Gonzalo Fernandez de Oviedo y Valdes...
...Oviedo went to Italy; 17 years later he was appointed supervisor of gold smeltings at San Domingo; and in 1523, back in Spain, he was appointed historiographer of the Indies...
Other later editions of Oviedo complete the collection now being shown...
Florida--M. A. Kilvert '89, care Peninsular Ranch Co., Oviedo...