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...whole League of Nations one day last week, but Cuba's holdupman was not small. Like some mighty Mutt he roared defiance at a little Jeff from Greece who sought to uphold League prestige. Surveying the somewhat comic champions, spectators beheld: in this corner tall, 175-lb. Senor Don Orestes Ferrara whose regular job is Cuban Ambassador at Washington; in that corner foxy, 135-lb. Dr. Nicolas Politis, agile Athenian word-wangler...
...fair1y bellowed strapping Senor Ferara, while startled Dr. Politis stepped nervously back a pace. "NO? Cuba entered the League regarding it as a society of nations, not as a superstate able to override the sovereignty of any member. . . . My country will not submit to dictation by M. Politis, nor by Greece, nor by any member of the League! ... It seems to me that what M. Politis is doing is making an election speech...
...close friendship with Cuban Dictator-President Gerardo Machado, the learned judge makes a good thing of his "vacations" in Havana. The fees of his law firm swell yearly. Bluntly, this potent Cuban feels that all Hague and no play would make Antonio a dull boy?wherefore alarums by Senor Ferrara at The Hague, the haughty Spanish phrases about the right of "sovereign states" to be as bumptious as they please, the comedy of Mutt & Jeff...
...government and the Mexican National Railways (today an insolvent concern). Last week the grand total of these Mexican debts stood at $514,302,000 principal, plus $369,888,000 in accrued unpaid interest. Therefore in the cool Manhattan office of J. P. Morgan & Co. an agreement was signed by Senor Luis Montes De Oca, Mexican Finance Minister. By its terms Mexico's principal creditors (the International Committee of Bankers on Mexico, chairmanned by Thomas William Lamont) agree to accept a "very large" but unspecified cut in arrears due, permit the Mexican National to be reorganized as a going concern...
Unabashed, Mexican authorities announced that the whole thing was a plot of the Vasconcelistas, partisans of defeated Presidential candidate Jose Vasconcelos. Safe in Los Angeles, Senor Vasconcelos commented...