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...since Apra had voted for Poet-President Jose Luis Bustamante and compromised its way to power, Peru's new-dealing Government had revamped its school system and hiked teacher pay by almost 80%, voted "victory bonuses" (employer-paid) to all workers. It had also embarked on the enterprise dearest to Haya's pro-Indian heart, irrigation that would restore to Indians the Andean waters their Inca ancestors had led through now-ruined aqueducts and tunnels. "The reactionaries irrigated the country in blood," Haya told them. "We will irrigate it with water...
Tiny, staunchly democratic Uruguay proposed a radical change in Latin American policy. Foreign Minister Dr. Alberto Rodriguez Larreta suggested that the Americas drastically modify the dearest of all hemispheric principles: non-intervention by any one nation or group of nations in the domestic affairs of any American country. Instead, he advocated joint intervention against any nation which violates "the elementary rights of man and of the citizens." The Uruguayans had good reason to fear violators of democratic rights. Across the Rio de la Plata, the hard-booted Argentine colonels tramped and threatened...
...first-rate editing job. Three-fifths of the letters have never before been published. They range from Thackeray, aged 6 ("My dear Mama I hope you are quite well: I have given my dear Grandmama a kiss"), to Novelist Thackeray, 40, famed and love-sick ("My dearest Mammy ... the griefs of my elderly heart can't be talked about. . . . What can any body do for me?"). Editor Ray has also included enlightening extracts from Thackeray's private diaries and account-books, scores of his sketches, brief biographies of his chief correspondents, explanatory footnotes-in short, practically everything that...
...registering approval. "History is writing with a rushing pen and we must accommodate its pace. . . . America has everything to gain and nothing to lose by giving [the charter] support; everything to lose and nothing to gain by declining this continued fraternity with the United Nations in behalf of the dearest dream of humankind...
Teresa's lover was Dan Sickles' dearest friend. But when the rumor of the affair was confirmed, Sickles sought out Key in a Washington park and methodically shot him to death with a pistol, a Derringer and a revolver...