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...last week the doughty Guatemalans had come forward with a counter-threat. Under the presidency of Foreign Minister Eugenio Silva Peña, independent planters had discussed a new marketing cooperative to export bananas independently of United Fruit. Once, that would have signaled war without question. Now there would probably be a compromise. Explained Sam Zemurray: "We adjust...
Touché. In Honolulu, surf Fisherman Manuel Silva, who had innocently turned his back on a swordfish, was taken to a hospital and treated for a "deep puncture" in the seat of the pants...
Like many another Brazilian, Editor Borba still finds it hard to believe that the presidential elections scheduled for Dec. 2 will ever materialize. He charged General Valentim Benicio da Silva with engineering "the same political atmosphere as that of 1937 when Getulio [President Getulio Vargas] with the Army's consent . . . took over the Government." The General's prompt answer: trial before the Security Tribunal...
...Inquisition's hirelings, Diego de Silva, "a large black bat transformed into a man," wanted the de Vargas acres. He was also Pedro's rival for the hand of lovely, aristocratic Luisa de Carvajal ("the perfume of her clothes set Pedro's pulses throbbing"). Pedro was accused of trying to bribe the Inquisition. Outfighting his pursuers, Pedro fled to Mexico and the service of Cortes...
Death and Old Mexico. There Pedro and the soldier he befriended met their old Spanish enemies and friends-Diego de Silva, Catana, even the Inquisitor who condemned Pedro to death in Spain. The Aztecs, who welcome the Spaniards at first, turn on them at last like warrior ants. The retreat of the invaders over the broken causeways out of the city-la noche triste, the climax of Captain from Castile as it is of every book about Cortés' exploits-is the bloody nightmare of Spain in the New World...