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Crowning absurdity cited by Writer Allen was the decoration of youthful Capt. Benjamin Mendez who, sent by the Colombian Government to the U. S. to learn to fly, was known at Mitchel Field as "Benny the Gas Boy." He won the Cross for a homeward flight to Bogota "during which Mendez wrecked at least two airplanes and took nearly enough time to have flown around the world...
TIME would have been UNIQUE in one more sense in these United States, had it commented properly, accurately, on Colombian affairs...
Last February Dr. Enrique Olaya Herrera, for eight years the Colombian minister at Washington, was elected President of Colombia. It was a unique election in that no one was killed in the campaign, no one contested the victory afterward...
...into seclusion. A few days later the U. S. rode him back to Washington in a special train. At the Union Station top-hatted officials from the State Department lined up to greet him. Military and naval units snapped to salute. The Marine Band groped its way through the Colombian national anthem (El Himno National). Guns fired 21 rounds...
Then, just before he boarded a train for Chicago, Dr. Olaya switched back from President-elect to Minister, took his leave without ceremony. This week he planned to return to Washington incognito, hide himself in the Colombian legation, come forth June 16-once more as President-elect-to receive the customary honors of an official farewell...