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...country needs only about $9,000,000 from the U. S. to build improvements and, to improve her trade with the U. S., an arrangement like the one wangled for Brazil in March by Foreign Minister Aranha. In addition, Dictator Somoza discussed with Franklin Roosevelt, whose guests* he and Señora Somoza were their first night in Washington, his new constitution (now formally blessed by the U. S.), the canal Nicaragua wants the U. S. to pay for across her.t and hemisphere solidarity. On the latter subject. General Somoza is handsomely outspoken. Says he: "I consider every Nicaraguan aviator...
...chestful of medals, a thorough military training and an expression so lugubrious that he looks as if he were about ready to cry. Until last week he was also President of Bolivia. He gained that post in one of the military coups that occur frequently in South American politics: Señor Busch was one of a group of officers who overthrew the Government after the Chaco War against Paraguay. He first supported a semi-Socialist regime, then threw out the semi-Socialists...
When Lieut. Colonel Busch grabbed power two years ago, grabby Señor Foianini went along, became last year Minister of Mines and Petroleum in Germán Busch's Cabinet. First Busch acts were to cancel wartime censorship, announce his intention to hold elections, introduce civilians to his Cabinet. But the next year press censorship was made more rigorous, extremist agitation was outlawed. In November groups of more than three were forbidden to congregate on the streets of La Paz (pop. 142,547). When dormant political parties recently began to stir restlessly, President Busch enlarged the Senate from...
...Crimson's scandalized attitude toward the tutoring school business, nevertheless, in the opinion of one who has no personal or practical interest in whether such schools flourish or perish, I sincerely believe that the Crimson's campaign is predicated on the fallacy that the Schools are an evil per se and that if the schools were abolished, the stables would be cleaned...
...eccentric love of painting. She learned to draw accurately at the strict Slade School. She carried a little suitcase instead of a handbag "because," she told the supercilious young Marquess of Donegall, "the damned thing holds more, you fool." One day she ran off to France with Señor Alvaro Guevara, a charming Chilean painter whose portrait of Poetess Edith Sitwell hangs in the Tate Gallery. Tentative little paintings by Meraud Guevara began to. appear in the Paris Salon des Independants. That was ten years...