Word: peru
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Ambassador Thurston seemed to have tried, so far as correctness allowed, to soften the Dictator's vengeance. But during the days of terror which followed the revolt, all El Salvador was sheltering fugitives. Priests lent their robes. Protestant ministers helped. The embassies of Costa Rica, Peru, Guatemala, Spain (and probably others) granted sanctuary. President Jorge Ubico of Guatemala, though a tyrant himself, allowed fugitives to cross his borders, gave them money to get to Mexico. But the U.S. Embassy closed its doors against them...
...Last January the aroused artists formed a Continental Committee of Art for Victory, planned a series of propaganda tours. Argentina's Antonio Berni would tour the east coast of South America. Chile's Antonio Quintana would tour Chile, Bolivia and Paraguay. Siqueiros undertook a modest swing through Peru, Ecuador, Colombia, Panama, Cuba, Mexico...
...President woke up with a stiff neck. Same day the elevator that carries him downstairs broke down; trapped, he spent the morning unable to greet John White, new U.S. Ambassador to Peru. Finally White went upstairs...
Concerning his personal history, he enrolled at the air academy of Peru (roughly comparable to West Point) in 1933 and has been a member of the P.A.F. ever since. Although the present visit is his first to the United States, this Peruvian officer has had a great deal of contact with U.S. military men in his own country, serving as aide-de-camp to several U. S. armed forces representatives, including the present Marine major general, James T. Moore...
Although answering our tactless and obvious query, "How do you like the United States?" in a gracious manner, he became more exuberant when he mentioned Peru, for it is still quite apparent that Capt. Higueras longs for his home in Miraflores, a small suburb just outside of Lima. The reason? A beautiful wife (this is not hearsay; reference, his pinup pictures of her) and a three and one-half year...