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...Simón Patiño's tin miners in Bolivia, whose cause Galarza had championed (TIME, Dec. 28), were back at work,* producing needed metal for the Allied war machine. Their demands for improvement of their substandard living conditions were as yet unanswered, though a special U.S. commission was preparing to investigate the dispute. By appointing such a commission, the U.S. Government had acknowledged a definite interest in the controversy, had shouldered a certain responsibility for its solution...
...Americas. The theme of Dr. Quintanilla's book is that a Pan-America can and should be created, that such a union could serve as an example for reorganization of the world. He goes far back in American history to describe the development of unity in the Americas (Simón Bolivar, he says, was the spiritual founder of this ideal). Among the obstacles to this ideal, he singles out "the greatest stumbling block in the way of genuine inter-Americanism": the Monroe Doctrine, as it has been interpreted by the U.S. through the years...
High up in the thin, cold air of the Bolivian Andes, shrewd Mestizo Simón I. Patiño built for himself and his family an empire of tin. It was founded on the peon labor of mountain Indians whose lowly wage offset the high cost of transporting Patiño's ores to world markets. The mines Patiño developed from the original holding he acquired from a debt-ridden Portuguese made him one of the richest men in the world. But last week the manner in which he got his wealth returned, to plague...
...America, directed his own death scene. At San José in Costa Rica, Morazán commanded the firing squad which faced him. He corrected the aim, ordered fire, fell, raised his bloody head to order a second volley. He died as great a hero in Central America as Simón Bolivar in South America...
...Chicago Sun led its editorial page with this laconic editorial one day last week. It was a soft answer to the dirtiest punch the Tribune's incredible Bertie McCormick had yet thrown in his bitter feud with the Sim's fairdealing Marshall Field. The Tribune, gloating over Ralph Ingersoll's "shamed" enlistment in the Army (TIME, Aug. 3), had blathered...