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...your always interesting publication, issue of Dec. 3, 1928, page 19, column 3, Peru, aren't you in error when you state "the first Capital city founded by Europeans in any of the Americas was Lima?" Santo Domingo City, now the Capital of Santo Domingo (Dominican Republic) was founded August 4, 1496 by Bartholomew, brother of Christopher Columbus, and is therefore, necessarily, the first permanent European settlement in the New World (incidentally it is and always has been a Capital-official residence of Spain's first Viceroy in the Americas). Francisco Pizarro was a young soldier of fortune...
Florida. The storm whirled northwestward, grazed Santo Domingo, isolated the Bahamas, cut off all wireless communication. Persons in Florida remembered the hurricane of 1926 and were not a little timorous. They sought shelter. The gale struck 80 miles of Florida coast between Jupiter Inlet and Miami, a region which includes Palm Beach. Reports from this area were fragmentary, telephone and telegraph service was interrupted. But it seemed that the hurricane had diminished in violence during its passage from Porto Rico. Nineteen, at last report, were dead on the East coast of Florida. President Coolidge, alarmed, called on nation...
Among these were Liberia, Peru, Costa Rica, Santo Domingo, Panama, Uruguay, Cuba, Brazil, Austria, Switzerland, Denmark, Finland, Czechoslovakia, Rumania, Jugoslavia, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Nicaragua, Haiti, Latvia, Greece, Bulgaria, Lithuania and the Union of Socialist Soviet Republics...
...fertility, bartered beads and gaudy bracelets for pretty gold-dust friendly "Indians" had found. But the Spaniards' brutality reduced these Indians to a paltry number and, needing laborers, they began importing large numbers of Africans. Before long the color line was so loosely drawn that very few of Santo Domingo's inhabitants could boast unmixed blood. Added to Spanish, Creoles and blacks, were soon the French and English traders, and by the end of the 18th Century French control was so well in the ascendency that Haiti contributed vast wealth to the kingdom of France...
...Porto Rican trio opposed the policy of intervention with armed forces, and cited the bad results of such a policy in Haiti, Santo Domingo, Nicaragua, and the Latin-American world generally. They claimed that not one American was killed in Haiti or Santo Domingo before United States marines intervened, and they charged that many of the revolutions in Latin-America which made governments unstable were incited by American investors. "More intervention means more investments and more investments means more intervention," was their contention...