Word: peruvians
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Charles Coupar Barrie is a Tory M.P. for Southampton, a director of $150,000,000 Cable and Wireless, Ltd. But he is also on the board of big Phoenix Assurance Co., Ltd., which controls eleven subsidiary insurance companies; of Santa Rosa Milling Co., Ltd., which has Chilean and Peruvian subsidiaries; of London & Northeastern Railway Co., Central Argentine Railway Ltd., the Mercantile Bank of India, Ltd., Crown Flour Mills, Ltd., United Baltic Corp., Ltd., of companies dealing in tobacco in Dublin, telegraph services in Africa...
...days ago in Lima's maternity hospital, surrounded by an audience of 35 Peruvian doctors, Surgeon Lozada performed a Caesarean section on 70-lb. Lina, brought forth a lusty, six-pound baby boy. But bewildered Lina would have nothing to do with her child, could not comprehend that he belonged to her. Silent and uncommunicative, she lay on her hospital bed fondling a shiny, new doll, fingering with reverence a holy picture pinned on her pillow...
...York Times Correspondent John W. White wrote: "The .. . Conference . . . functioned under a dictatorial regime of censorship, intimidation and spying such as never before seen in any Pan-American assembly. The Peruvian Government not only tried to control the newspaper correspondents, it censored and spied on the delegates. . . . Secret service men were found searching the offices of the American delegation. . . . The Government . . . violated diplomatic immunity and examined the delegates' mail. Many chauffeurs assigned to the delegates were known to be in the employ of the secret police. . . . [Peru] used at least two agents provocateurs in its campaign to intimidate visiting...
...Peruvian] Government's sympathies are intensely fascist," continued Mr. White, "and the Government was furious at the disclosure of German and Italian activities against the Pan-American Conference. On the opening day . . . Lima appeared to be the site of a great Nazi rally. There were literally thousands of swastika flags all over the city. There were only three American flags on the main street, and one of them was at the American Consulate. Also there were more Italian and Japanese flags than there were flags of any South American countries. Throughout the Conference the Government-controlled newspapers used prominent...
Some idea of how realistic might be the results of the democracy v. dictatorship discussions could be got from the character of the building in which the delegates sat down to business. It was the hall of the Peruvian Congress, Hispanic, charming, but a little small for the 136 delegates. The Congress has not met for more than two years, having been sent home in 1936 by General Oscar R. Benavides, who has run Peru singlehanded ever since...