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...Haring will lecture on "History and Politics in South America" on Thursdays and Mondays at 8 o'clock in the evening, beginning Thursday, November 2. The individual titles of the lectures are as follows: 1. Problems of Independence; 2. The Rise of Modern Argentina; 3. Empire and Republic in Brazil; 4. International Rivalries on the River Plate; 5. The Struggle for Democracy in Chile; 6. The Balance of Power on the Pacific; 7. Church and State in Columbia; 8. South America and the United States...
...Minas Geraes, Brazil, prospectors on the banks of the Saobento River reported finding seven huge diamonds, one of which weighed over 2,000 carats-second largest diamond ever found.- About the size of a man's fist, a 2,000-carat blue-white diamond is worth...
...President thus taken Latin Americans into his confidence on foreign policy. He had asked for no specific support from their Governments but his candor and tact won him a favorable reaction throughout the hemisphere. Two days later Mexico, on its own initiative, asked Argentina, Brazil and Chile to join with it in impressing upon the Cuban Junta the necessity for a law & order government. While President Roosevelt was backing away from intervention diplomatically, his precautionary plans for military action went forward full blast. He did not intend to exert force but if he had to, he was going...
...other U. S. Ambassadors: Argentina-Alexander Wilbourne Weddell Belgium-Dave Hennen Morris Brazil-Hugh Simons Gibson Cuba-Sumner Welles France-Jesse Isidor Straus Germany-William Edward Dodd Great Britain-Robert Worth Bingham Italy-Breckinridge Long Japan-Joseph Clark Grew Mexico-Josephus Daniels Peru-Fred Morris Dearing Poland-John Clarence Cudahy Spain-Claude Gernade Bowers Turkey-Robert Peet Skinner...
...From the tristes (which are the blues of Spanish America) to the saudades of Brazil, the whole Continent weeps and regrets in music; the Indians on their flutes, made from a hollowed human tibia, weep for the Incas, Brazilian Negroes weep for Africa (though they have benefited considerably by their change), the gentlemen of fashion in Santiago weep for Piccadilly, the intelligenzia weep for Moscow, and lovely women for Paris...