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...Peru, where Dictator Augusto B. Leguia was last year deposed (TIME. Sept. 8) a leading Lima paper La Prensa commented last week: "General Gomez makes 'Presidents' and maintains them in office until he is bored by the joke. . . . Joking aside, the tyranny in Venezuela has such a grotesque aspect that we must congratulate ourselves that even in the worst of the Leguia regime we did not have anything like...
...Hombre Has Resigned!" When big news breaks in Buenos Aires her potent newsorgans La Prensa and La Nacion explode upon their roofs tremendous bombs-which may mean anything. As explosion after explosion tore the air last week. thousands of people rushed joyously into the streets, shouting as they embraced each other: "El Hombre has resigned...
...Prensa of Buenos Aires, outstanding South American newspaper, of whose staff Señior Jose Santos Gollan, Jr., was exchange professor at the Missouri school. (La Prensa gave a large collection of Argentine books to the school's library...
...cabled to Argentina, ferreting Buenos Aires reporters wormed out the further fact that the d'Abernon mission had arranged an Anglo-Argentine floating credit of £16,000,000 ($77,760.000) to facilitate the mutual buying and selling provided for in the main agreement. The usually well-informed La Prensa declared that the British Government would use its £8,000,000 ($38,880,000) purchases of Australian food and raw materials "to feed and clothe the British Army and Navy...
There was also a report that Lord d'Abernon had arranged for a $200,000,000 private British loan to the Argentine Government for road building purposes. Both La Prensa and equally famed La Nation were skeptical of the constitutional right of Argentina's fanatically secretive President Hipolito Irigoyen to sign rich, special agreements without consulting the Argentine Congress. "Even members of the President's Cabinet," said La Nation indignantly, "knew absolutely nothing of what was afoot...