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...other interior field is the so-called Barco concession of about 1,500,000 acres near the Venezuelan border adjoining the prolific Maracaibo wells. This property, together with the oil rights on about two million acres nearby, is being exploited by the Carib Syndicate of New York, in cooperation with the subsidiary of the Henry L. Doherty interests of Pittsburg. Transportation problems have somewhat embarrassed these operations since the field is accessible only from the east by way of the Catatumbo River and Lake Maracalbo; but it is now proposed to lay a two hundred mile pipe line...
...evident, then, that the greater part of the more promising Colombian deposits is in the hands of Americans, though it may be noted in this connection that the Carib Syndicate is associated with the British-controlled Burlington-Royal Dutch Shell interests in the exploitation of the western Venezuelan fields adjoining the Colombian properties of that syndicate...
...Republicans have made militarism synonymous with peace, but this is disproved by the issue of the Venezuelan controversy...
...different thing. Some of us have been under the impression that the University has gained in prestige, because it has suc- ceeded fairly well in abstaining from head-long plunges into political questions, and that it has lost when it has attempted to mix in such matters as the Venezuelan affair of a few years ago. It may be that Harvard would support Mr. Lehmann, if for no other reason than personal enthusiastic devotion, in a proposal for international boating, or some kindred subject. Whether Harvard should support him on a political question, purely English is open to considerable discussion...
...convenience. Dr. Winsor was one of the founders, and first president of the American Library Association and was at one time president of the American Historical Society. His knowledge of cartography was exceptional and his reputation such that he was called to Washington to report before the recent Venezuelan Commission, the final decision being greatly influenced by his report. It is no doubt on this account that Dr. Winsor's reputation was yet greater in Europe than in this country...