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...Jungle of Peru" will be the subject of a free public lecture, illustrated by slides and colored motion pictures, to be given by Manuel I. Prado '42, and Berrien Anderson Jr. '42 this afternoon at 4 o'clock, in the Harvard Institute of Geographical Exploration...
...cause of the avalanche was probably a series of torrential rains. As relief parties headed by Peru's President Manuel Prado Ugarteche started north, an earthquake blocked the highway...
Peru's most important figure-more important than President Dr. Manuel Prado-is Raúl Haya de la Torre, fugitive head of the outlawed Aprista Party. President Prado, says Gunther, would probably like to lift the ban against the Apristas, but if he did, they would sweep him out of office at the next election. So he doesn...
...Switzerland one night in February 1939 crawled a train of 22 freight cars. Atop every second car sat a machine-gun crew, and as the train stopped, three French soldiers with fixed bayonets jumped from each car. The art treasures of Spain, snatched from Madrid's gun-gutted Prado and many another lesser museum, vandalized churches and bombed palaces, had reached safety in Switzerland. In the cars were 1,842 big packing cases, containing 266 masterpieces by El Greco, Goya, Velasquez, Titian, Rubens, scores of other paintings, priceless collections of gold and silver work, porcelain, tapestries, sculpture, manuscripts...
Last week, with French and German big guns booming within range of Geneva, Spain seemed about the safest place for the 175 Spanish paintings. They were crated again, began their journey back to the Prado...