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...Lima President Oscar Benavides of Peru last week addressed an angry crowd. Said he: "I have just received cables from the Argentine, Chile, Uruguay and Mexico solidifying the Peruvian attitude against the crafty Berlin decision." The crowd, which had already torn down an Olympic flag, surged on to listen to more speeches in the Plaza San Martin. Later it proceeded to the German Consulate to throw stones at the windows until police arrived in trucks. At Callao, Lima seaport, workmen on the docks refused to load two German vessels...
...them join in voting to lift Sanctions. It was therefore necessary to "resolve" to lift Sanctions which could be done by a simple majority. In the final count Ethiopia alone voted to keep Sanctions on. Notwithstanding all South Africa's brave talk, she abstained from voting, as did Chile, Venezuela, and Panama. Every other League State represented in the Assembly last week (44) "resolved" to end Sanctions. This week the Sanctions Committee set July 15 as the official Sanctions ending date. Not the End. As the delegates hastily left Geneva for their home capitals, most privately agreed that...
...this point Chile relieved some tension by having her Geneva spokesman propose to "reform" the League of Nations: 1) in such a way that no matter what happens Chile would never have to join in either economic or military sanctions; 2) to bring non-members including Germany and Japan back into the League, presumably recognizing Japan's great land grab in China at this time...
...greatest highway project in the world, the Inter-American, if ever completed, will stretch some 12,000 miles from Alaska to Argentina. First proposed at the Fifth International Conference of American states in Santiago, Chile in 1923, the road immediately fired the imagination of the delegates, was undertaken after enthusiastic endorsement by subsequent conferences and by Presidents Coolidge and Hoover. When the U. S. Congress appropriated $50,000 in 1929 for a reconnaissance survey to start the work in Central America, the first Inter-American Highway Congress was held in Panama, created a commission which has driven the work ahead...
Weather on earth depends upon radiations from the sun. Dr. Abbot receives in his Washington office telegraph and cable reports of the sun's condition as recorded at three solar observatories which the U. S. maintains on Table Mountain, Calif.; Mount St. Catherine, Egypt; Mount Montezuma, Chile. Last week he told the scientists in Rochester that he expected $200,000 from Congress to erect seven more solar observatories. President Roosevelt had written a longhand letter to Senator Joseph Robinson urging the appropriation, said Dr. Abbot...