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...millions of South Americans the greatest man who ever lived was Simón José Antonio de la Santísima Trinidad Bolívar y Palacio, liberator of Colombia, Bolivia, Ecuador, Venezuela, Peru, Panama. Simón Bolívar (pronounced See-moan Bow-lee-var) has inspired litanies like those to the saints. His tomb at Caracas-the "Pantheon"-is almost as much a religious as a national shrine. Venezuela's President Contreras reputedly goes there to pray...
Upon investigation the Universal Legion which sent this cable from Manhattan to His Holiness last week, turned out to be mostly letterhead, its secretary being its founder and sole member, one Carlos Palacio, a Colombian. Partisans for a U. S. pope are not hard to find,* but Secretary Palacio had no particular man in mind, nor any other definite plan. He expected no answer to his cablegram, got none. In Vatican City Pope Pius XI, prayerful and thankful that he had been spared to pass his 79th Easter week, his 15th as Pontiff, had more important things to do than...
Since President Manuel Azaña of Spain was almost hourly expected to flee from Madrid, the Mexican Congress last week sent a message of sympathy addressed "to the President of Spain wherever he may be." This arrived as the President was sitting in his small office at the Palacio National in Madrid, declaring that "The Spanish Republic will maintain political and religious liberty!" The Spanish Republic was actually at its last gasp and the President's wife had fled to the seaport of Alicante, haven for refugees from Madrid. There she was taking care of child victims...
...Juan Vincente Gomez first appeared on the Venezuelan political scene 43 years ago when at the age of 35 he came tearing out of the Andean foothills at the head of a regiment of hard-riding gauchos to support with his neighbor, Cipriano Castro, the government of President Aldueza Palacio in one of the country's innumerable revolutions. They guessed wrong. The successful revolutionists exiled Gomez & Castro. Seven years later another revolution left Cipriano Castro President of Venezuela and General Gomez Vice President and Minister of War. President Castro's vices and extravagances nearly bankrupted the nation...
...dancers met their greatest obstacles in Mexico City. Fleabites notwithstanding, they inaugurated the magnificent new Palacio de Bellas Artes. Because no one knew how to operate its elaborate lighting system, a "spot" had to be borrowed from a nearby cinema house. Later when the Company danced in the bull ring, rain wilted their tarlatan skirts...