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...little effect on foreign policy unless it blows up into revolution. But in nearby Uruguay the anti-Government Herrerista-Blanco Party makes hay by opposing U. S. influence. In Paraguay a showdown is brewing between Dictator-President General Higino Morinigo and his would-be successor, onetime Provisional President Colonel Rafael Franco, who is now supporting himself by making soap in Buenos Aires...
...many a homeless European and most refugee relief organizations is of pioneering colonies in the New World where refugees may live off the land, build themselves self-supporting communities. So far the only place this dream has come even close to reality is the Dominican Republic, whose boss, Rafael Leonidas Trujillo, offers land and conditional citizenship to sponsored immigrants. There nine refugee settlements have been set up, eight for Spanish Republicans, one (mostly) for German Jews. But last week, looking the colonies over, reporters found the realities none too pleasant...
...Hawk is no relative of Rafael Sabatini's book of the same name. The sea hawks, as students of English history and those who saw the 1924 version of their story will recall, are valiant English captains who, while Queen Elizabeth haggles over the cost of building a navy to face the Spanish Armada, wage an undeclared war on Spanish shipping wherever they find it. In history, deadliest of the sea hawks was Sir Francis Drake. In the picture, he is symbolized by Captain Geoffrey Thorpe. Sea Hawk Thorpe begins his career by a swashbuckling attack on a Spanish...
...General Rafael Sánchez Tapia, oldtime friend of President Cárdenas and himself an independent candidate for president, took advantage of the general about-face to try to make a little hay for the Cárdenas Party. Proposing that Mexico immediately negotiate a comprehensive political-economic-military defense pact with the U. S., he also suggested that the Government candidate for President, General Manuel Avila Camacho, and his chief opponent, General Juan Andreu Almazán, join him in withdrawing their candidacies, thus leaving President Cárdenas in office for the duration of the "world danger...
Heinrich Burening, Lucius N. Littauer Professor of Government; Francis Deak, formerly Hungarian representative at the League of Nations; Rafael de la Colina, Mexican Consul General at New York; and Waldo Heinrichs, professor of Government at Middlebury College and advocate of the Streit Plan, will be the speakers at the conference...