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...defaulted Brazilian dollar bonds at conferences in Rio de Janeiro, the Council dispatched J. (for Joshua) Reuben Clark Jr., Mormon lawyer from Salt Lake City who succeeded the late Dwight Morrow as Ambassador to Mexico. The negotiations involved all the 100 or more issues comprising Brazil's $1,000.000,000 of external debt. French, Dutch and British bondholders were also represented. Upshot of this conference was a pact segregating the various issues into eight classes on which service on all but one (old defaults) will be promptly resumed in whole or in part. A few Federal issues will...
Aftermath of pugnacious Paraguay's five-year war with Brazil, Argentina and Uruguay, ending in 1870, was a squabble with Argentina over her western boundary. The entire dispute was laid at the elastic-sided boots of President Hayes, who looked solemnly at many maps, listened to many arguments and finally awarded all the land between the Pilcomayo and the Verde rivers to Paraguay. Argentina accepted the award and President Hayes went down in South American history as a great peacemaker. Last week Paraguay stubbornly refused to allow any of the territory included in the original Hayes award...
...Luft Hansa flying boat is scheduled to take off from Stuttgart, Germany. She will roar south and west to Cadiz, the Canary Islands, West Africa, then shoot across the ocean to the seadrome Westphalen, riding in midocean (TIME, Nov. 20). On the fourth day she will alight at Natal, Brazil-a trip which requires nine days by present airplane-&-steamer service. First eastward flight is slated for Feb. 7. A fortnightly schedule in each direction was planned...
...their travels seriously. Against this impressive but monotonous harmony Explorer-Author Fleming raises a delightfully discordant note. In spite of all temptation to add a glamorous paragraph to adventure's annals he remains the up-to-date young Englishman, telling of his hairbreadth adventurings in the jungles of Brazil as a harebrained joke. Though he takes his stand as a modern member of an unromantic generation, his typical English understatement serves to underline many a tense scene's awkward moment. Thus he remains true to the old flag after all. For anyone who likes travel books...
...then back to London to work for a Cabinet committee, "writing monumental treatises on the tsetse fly and the trawler fleet." He joined the staff of the London Spectator, became literary editor, eight months later went to China. Five months after he got back he was off again to Brazil. After finishing Brazilian Adventure he went to Manchuria as correspondent for the London Times, returned to London to find the town talking about his book. First-rate journalist, Peter Fleming at 26 has no illusions of grandeur about what he writes, obviously enjoys writing it. Typical...