Word: venezuela
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Chile 1, China 43, Cuba 3, Denmark 3, Egypt 3, England 6, France 8, Gold Coast 1, Greece 2, Holland 2, Hungary 1, India 6, British West Indies 2, Japan 33, Mexico 3, Norway 10, Russia 4, Siam 1, South Africa 12, Sweden 6, Switzerland 4, Turkey 2, Venezuela 1, West Africa...
That the Latin-American peoples are lovers of liberty their history shows. Bolivar, not content with liberating his own Venezuela, likewise liberated Colombia, Bolivia, Equador and Peru. More than one Porto Rican died in the Cuban "manigua" fighting for the liberties of the sister isle. And it is this very love of liberty, I honestly believe, that has caused friction and misunderstanding between the great republic of the North and the peoples south of the Rio Grande. They believe that the rights of Colombia, Santo Domingo, or Porto Rico, are every bit as sacred as the rights of Argentina...
...officers of the company are Eugene Simpson, captain, who has been in the 10th Cavalry and was in the Hospital Corps; S. Tryhne, first lieutenant, who has seen service in Venezuela, and B. W. Lee, second lieutenant, who has recently been with the 10th Cavalry...
...observe, the members of the league do not bind themselves to accept the award, but only to present their case and hear the decision. Let us consider the probable effect in a concrete case. Take that of the controversy with England about Venezuela, and suppose, what did not happen, that feeling in the two countries had run dangerously high. If the league had consisted, besides these two nations, of France, Germany, Russia, and Japan, neither England nor the United States, however excited, would for a moment have thought of risking war with all the other powers. They would have done...
...finest private libraries in the world, and a member of the Brazilian Academy and other learned societies. Moreover, in addition to his scholarship, he has had wide experience in political and diplomatic life, both in Latin America and in Europe, having served as Minister Plenipotentiary of Brazil in Venezuela, Peru, Belgium, and in Sweden, and occupied other important offices. He is also familiar with the United States, where he lectured in the winter of 1912-13; and he speaks English perfectly so that no one need shun his classes from any fear of the barrier of language...