Word: peru
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...return voyage to Europe last week of the liner Oropesa (the ship that carried Edward of Wales and Prince George to Peru), her royal suite, especially fitted up for Their Royal Highnesses, was occupied by a hard-faced little man with only seven fingers...
...President Lieut.-Colonel Sanchez Cerro had pinned Edward of Wales with Peru's Order of the Sun, was pinned in return with the Grand Cross of the Order of the British Empire. Then he was almost immediately overthrown. As he prepared to sail away from Peru last week in regal style (promising to be back in three months), yet another revolution popped...
...Most of Peru's loyal Army was in hiding last week on transports anchored behind San Lorenzo Island...
Only in the highest, most discreet councils of Peru's Navy was it known that the Army transports and their naval convoy were "just hanging around," perfectly willing to fight but waiting for a hunch...
Head of the new government, a stop-gap affair patched up in Lima until Arequipa could be heard from, was, last week, Chief Justice Ricardo Leoncio Elias of Peru's Supreme Court. So devoid of ambition is Col. Sanchez Cerro that less than a month ago he announced that "by unanimous solicitation of the people" he would be the only candidate at Peru's next presidential election...