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...Eugene A. MacCornack, as Alcalde (Mayor) of the ancient Peruvian city of Callao, seaport to Lima. Straightway it was recalled that Dr. MacCornack has long been superintendent of the British-American Hospital at Lima, Peruvian capital, and that he has frequently had occasion to attend professionally both the indomitable Señor Leguía and numerous members of his militant Administration...
Without becoming lurid, it may be baldly stated that no less than nine major revolutions and at least a score of minor revolts have been put down during the ten odd years in which Señor Leguía has worn the presidential sash of Peru. The old semifeudal, politico-military aristocracy has resisted long and bitterly the dominance of Leguía, admittedly a champion of the middle class, of industrialism, and even of the aboriginal Indians of Peru, who have been exploited immemorially by the landed descendants of the Spanish conquerors...
...example before her eyes in Thérèse Callendar, daughter of Dikran Leopopulos (a Levantine banker of Constantinople), reared in a French convent and carried off down the Bosporus in a clipper ship by a young Yankee merchant from Manhattan. When Ellen knew her she was old and ugly but a shrewd dowager in society and in business, and although she carried biscuits in her reticule and nibbled them when she became excited, she was not at all innocent and was very able...
...Señor Freyre appeared to be somewhat uncomfortable. Despite the declared good intentions of General Pershing and Señor Edwards, he insisted, which seemed unnecessary, on a fair poll, "the establishment of an atmosphere of security among all Peruvian voters so that they will have a sense of utter confidence in exemption from all restraint...
...Señor Edwards was President of the Assembly of the League of Nations...