Diario las Américas Newspaper, November 26, 1953, Page 6

7 THE WEATHER rtly cloudy today and onday with few scat- ered showers. iami, Fla., Thursday, November 26, 1953 DITORIAL THE INVOCATION OF GOD ON THIS THANKSGIVING DAY SHOULD MEAN MORE THAN EVER TO US_ The people of the United States join together today to give thanks to God for all the bounties with which he has favored them during the past year. The United States—the most powerful nation in the world, the country that enjoys more economic, scientific and military prestige than has any other nation ever recorded by history—sets aside this day every year for a Thangsgiving to the Supreme Being hose existence is manifest in the miracle of Creation, which can only be explained through the intervention of ‘a divine, supreme power. From the President to the most humble citizen— all the people of this country should send a prayer o Heaven with the sort of humility incumbent upon | em as the recipients of traditions consecrated by the last. There are few holidays observed in the United ates that should be endowed with as much sanctity | should today. This day it critically meaningfull in this moment of anguish for humanity, when the nations of the earth find themselves at such a fateful juncture. The blebration of Thanksgiving is a demonstration of ith in the greatest spiritual values known to mank- \—a proof of trust that divine goodness can guide fons in paths of peace and progress, provided they sell their birthrigh for a-mess of pottage. Ve are more than ever needful of invoking the God for confronting the wave of atheistic mat- Im which has been sweeping over the world cancerous plague, and which in its cold, calcul- way threatens to obliterate our Christian her- yadicate every traditional concept of mor- and dignity from the human conscience. It is his reason that when we meditate today about fate of this country and the world, we should lore God to light the path ahead which has been ed with the darkness of violence. s the players of an entire nation wend their way ward in gratitude to God, the people of this await, with hope and faith, for His bened- ind His message of peace and love. le respectfully join with the people of the United s in their Thanksgiving Day celebration, as they hanks to their God and invoke divine protection he world of our day that is anxiously seeking the"koad of tranquility and justice that it seems to have temporality lost. ' Pan American Highway Delegates Meet With Transport Officials At Stafe Dept. WASHINGTON, D. C. — Yesterday morning doctores Eduardo Arnal and Francisco J. Sucre of the Organization Committee of the Sixth Pan American Highway Congress paid an official visit to Mr. Ckarles P. Nolan, head of the Department of Transportation and Communications of the State Department, and to his colleague from the same department, Mr. H. H. Kelly. Assistant Secretary of Commerce S. W. Anderson received the ittee members afterwards. Both interviews involved dis- cussion of\matters pertaining to the forthcoming highway convention. Last night, doctor Francisco Aguirre, publisher of “DIARIO LAS AMERICAS” and Director of the Pan American Division of the American Road Builders Association, who accompanied the Com- mittee on its tour of Latin American countries, offered a reception in honor of doctores Arnal and Sucre. The reception was attended by guests from Washington officialdom, as well as by representatives from-press and highway associations. U. S. Information Service Is Doing An fective Job Says Sen. Hickenlconer AVANA,' Cuba (I) —Sen. Bourke | we visited as regards relations Hickenlooper (R. Iowa) said| with the United States,’ Hicken- the United States Information | looper said. Y ice (USIS) is “doing an ef-| “Some problems are difficult, ve job of countering com-| some are not soluble at this mo- ist propaganda in Latin Amer-| ment — but none of them is in- soluble.’” In a number of the countries visited, the “climate is not suf- ficiently sure to assure foreign in- vestmen the Iowan said. | Iowan participated in a ie tour of Latin America dur- hich he surveyed USIS oper- in this hemisphere, in his| ity as member of the Sen-| foreign relations committee | airman of the sub-committee | 12 the formation of economic blocs Me Ainerican aftairs. among Latin American nations. paniéd «by commiitée ‘They have not brought any long- Maj. Henry F.. Holthusen, | ™2"8¢ benefits. I favor open trade Milooper visited Mexico, Nic-| With all nations.” He admitted, a, Panama, Colombia, Peru, | however, that “temporary _ eco- Uruguay, Argentina, Brazil; nomic blocs | might be all right in p, Haiti and Cuba. Bar tec ar USIS will get better as goes on,” he commented. pscribed hemispheric rela- of the “utmost import- to the United States and had “piled up a great deal ation of future value” he tour. believe there are any problems in the countries | | Asked if American investors in Latin Ameiica don’t get more out of their invégtments than in the United States, the Senator said: “TI don’t believe it is a crime to make a profit." He pointed out that foreign capital aided greatly in the development of the United States ‘‘and made a good profit also.” | He said he was not a believer | The Americas Daily $26 Million Paper And Woodpulp Guatemalan Foreign Minister About To Plants To Operate In Chile | WASHINGTON, D. C. (P.A.U.) {Chile ise planning a paper and pulpwood program believed cap: {ble not only of suplying the coum try’s entire domestic demand. but producing enough for exports as well. Back of move pafiia Manufacturera y Cartones, a pri firm, and the government Corporation de Fomento de Produccién. Initial financing ing made thro i | loan from the International Bank | of Reconstruction and development. | | The Papeles artones plant is | the only one of its kind in Chile. | In 19. it produced 11,000 tons of |newsprint and 30,000 tons of other |paper and paper products. In site jof constantly increased output, the | |company has been unable to meet | demands within the borders of | Chile. the is the Com de Papeles ately capit. | In 1950, Chilean imports of news- |print and cellulose pulp were valu: | ed at about $5 million. Increased |production of pulp locally through | |chemipeal as well as mechanical |rocesses is expected to eliminate jthe same time provide a means | of making new paper products for | Chilean industries. | New plant construction will be | designed so as to permit expan- | sion to accommodate additional | rayon pulp, another item for which ! Chilean demand at present ex- | ceeds supply. The new program is designed to y | duced | troduction of pulp output by chemi- Be Declared Unwelco | SAN SALVADOR. (S. E.) An in- terview, w! h took place between president of Ci a RK. Otilio Ula- te and the present Minister of For eign Affairs of Guatemala, Profe Raul Oseg ich was held in Panama during recent | tions in the central part of the |Cclebrations of the fiftieth atniver-| Republic. has been widely d i in thea | Since 1938 Papeles y Cartones | Press of Costa Rica, El Salvador | has been using mechanically pro- | 2"4 Guatemaia | woodpulp to make paper.| The meeting was given front Experiments have now been com-| page tractment in view of the con- pleted which will permit the in-/| ditions that preceded the interview | which go back to the good-will trip | made several months ago by the | then President of Costa Rica, Oti-| lio Ulate, to El Salvador, Honduras | and Nicaragua, after accepting in- | vitations tendered by the chiefs exe- cutives of those nations. | | take advantage of Chile’s vast for- est reserves. Thirty years ago the country embarked on a wide-scale areas unsuitable for agricultural development. Now great stands of favorable soil and climate condi- sor ssed H cal methods . The company’s new pulp plant will be loated in Laja, a town on a branch line of the Concep- cién-Santiago railroad. It will pro- duce unbleached, semi-bleached and bleached pulp at the rate of 50,000 tons annually, According to Cc Rican pape the Guatemalan Foreign Minister | instructed his ambassador to Cos- ta Rica, Colonel Rafael O‘Meanys to extend an invitation to Presi dent Ulate to visit Guatemala. Ul- ate accepted the invitation, stating that he would go to Guatemala after the forthcoming presidential elections in his country. | The paper plant will be on the Bio Bio River near Concepcion, Chile’s fastest growing industrial center. Output schedules here call for 44,000 tons of newsprint and 6,600 tons of paperboard a year. Machinery for the latter is being brought in from Puente Alto and | modernized. | When Ulate boarded the Salva- dorean military plane at the Ilo pango Airport, on his flight to Honduras, the Costa Rican presi-| dent was infoymed about a state-j| ment given to/ the press by Guate-| Total cost of all plant construc- tion will be about $26 million. The money used for importing ne sary machinery will be paid in Chilean currency The Reconstruc- tion and Development Bank's loan will be amortized over a period of 17 years at five percent, with payments beginning in May, 1958. who said that his government had | no intentions of inviting any Cen-| | tral American president to Guate- ‘Odeca Will Go Ahead (® — Foreign Minister Roberto E. | ‘Canessa vowed to carry on his | fight to halt Communist infiltra- j tion of Central America. The dynamic, 41-year-old minis- | ter said that if necessary he would| | take the matter before the tenth) |Pan American Conference, slated} }to meet in Caracas, Venezuela, | | next March. He said the recent Communist-| inspired withdrawal of Guatemala | from the organization of Central} American States (ODECA) which} | he helped create, had not discour-| aged him in his struggle against | Communism. |. “Communist infiltration of Cen-| jtral America can be prevented through agreements among our governments to bar the improper use of traveling documents and the | spread of subversive propaganda, | and through the reciprocal ex- | change of information on the ac- tivities of Communist agents,"’ Ca-| nessa said. | “Even after Guatemala’s with- | | drawal, the ODECA can attain its | high aims, with the steady moral and economic support of the re; maining Central American states,’ he added. | ODECA was established in 1951 at a meeting of the Foreign Min- isters of the five Central Ameri- can republics, held here, under Canessa’s leadership. Its chief pur- poses are to strengthen the bonds linking the five small republics | | and to serve as an instrument for! solving common problems. | The ODECA charter provided | Floating Debts — ‘In Brazil To Be Consolidated RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil (H— | President Getulio Vargas sent a | bill to congress authorizing a 60,- 000;000,000 cruzeiro — $3,264,000,- 000 — bond issue to consolidate all | federal, state and municipal float- | ing debts. | The face value of the bonds will |be guaranteed by the Brazilian government for payment in either dollars or cruzeiros. Foreign sub- |scribers of the bonds will be as-| sured a favorable dollar exchange rate. The bill is part of Finance Min- | ister Oswaldo Aranha’s over-al1 program to reorganize the Brazil- |ian economy on a sound basis. It | is intended to clear up the present |chaos in Brazil's public capital market. States and municipalities whose | debts are consolidated under the | bill would be forbidden to raise | new loans for 10 years, Atlas Confiscated | By Chilean Ministry SANTIAGO, Chile — The Ministry of Interior was reported to have ordered seizure of all cop- ies of an atlas edited in Argentina. The order was said to have been issued because the atlas shows as belonging to Argentina three Ant- arctic islands claimed by Chile. Lennox, Pcton and Nueva Is- londs, involved in the case, are also claimed by Britain, | = Plans Despite Guatemala’s Withdrawal SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador, | inite {mala “because there were more | important matters to deal with”. | With Its Anti-Red Because of this statement, the government of Costa Rica declar- | ed Ambassador O‘Meany “‘pers non gra and recalled bassador in Guatemala, Ricardo | Toledo .Public opinion in Costa Rica has favored the governments position that the =ment made by that the first regular meeting of the Central American foreign min- ister would be held in Guatemala! City, at the invitation of the Guate- malan government, within one year after adoption of the charter. | Guatemala meln(CostaRica Osegueda was an outrage against Costa Rica’s dignity, and specially in view of that fact that the invita- tion had been made in the presence of foreign diplom in the Presi. dential Palace of Costa Rica. Relations between both countries were therefore tense during the last few months of Ulate’s adminis- | tration, and when the government of Guatemala announced that the diplomatic mission to President- elect Figueres’ inauguration would be headed by Osegueda, there was much speculation as to the possible attitude of the Costa Rican foreign office. The situation came to a climax when Ulate and Osegueda met in Panama during the celebrations of the anniv of Panama’: independence. They did not even exchange custom: greetings. On the eve of his return trip to Guate mala, Minister Osegueda paid a visit to Ulate, and according to Cen- tral American press reports, gave Ulate a thorough explanation of the | matter. He told Ulate that he would | always be welcome in Guctemala | a great democrat and distin- | guished newspaperman and invited | he wanted. He also blamed C Rican ambassador Toledo for “con- fusion” of the matter. ‘“Neverthe- less”, the Costa Rican newspaper ! Prensa Libre says, “President Ul- | ate repeated to Osegueda that if| mala’s Foreign Minister Osegueda, | he insisted in going to Costa Rica! the transp s the head of the mission to Figuer | es’”’ inauguration, he would declare him “persona non grata.” | Guatemala’s special mission to the Costa Rican official cele- | brations was therefore headed by Humberto Gonzalez Juarez sec- retary of the presidency. Central American political cir- cles consider that relations between and Costa Rica will be greatly improved with Figures’ | rise to power. Guatemala did call the meeting but in the meantime, Canessa ask ed that the agenda of the meeting include adoption of joint measures Bolivian Ambassa “mmedistely, the, Gusceralan| PROLULES Hertzog’s Communist Party, which exerts Strong influence over the govern-| NEW YORK, N. Y. (® — Bolivian ment, unleashed an attack on the Victor Andrade has Salvadorean government in gener-| written a letter to the editor of al and on Canessa in particular, as the New York Times, in which he reactionary and fascist.” answered another letter that the Shortly thereafter the Guatema-, Times recently received from ex- lan government announced indef- Bolivian president J. Enrique Hert- | suspension of its invitation zog aizabal. to the four other Central Ameri-| According to the, Ambassadro, | can governments. The action was the charges made by Hertzog are | followed some time later by Guate~ for the most part generalizations, | mala’s withdrawal from the but holds that they cannot be ove ODECA. looked, and that the clearest and Canessa voiced the hope that simplest way of refuting them is such withdrawal would be only by referral to the letter written temporary, since it was the result) by President Eisenhower on Octo- of the “policy of one government| per 14 to Bolivian President Paz and governments are only trans- Fstenssoro. In his letter President itory, lasting only a short time Fisenhower said: “The people of| in the lives of the peoples, where-| the United States feel a deep con-| as the peoples themselves always |cern for the welfare of the people | seek their’ own well being and of the neighboring republic of Bol- | greatness.” | a The foreign ministers of Costa Rica, El Salvador, Honduras and Nicaragua held a special session of the ODECA at the Nicaraguan capital last July, and in the so- called “Declaration of Managua” pledged their continued support of the fight against Communist infil- Dulles Says tration. | WASHINGTON, (UP) At a press | The resolution reaffirmed the | Conference Secretary of State John democratic principles of the Cen-| Foster Dulles said that he is con- tral American republics; recogni-|fident that negotiations between zed the need to improve the social,| Panama and the economic and cultural conditions) OW underway, will be resolved of the people as an effective meth- in an entirely satisfactory way. od of strengthening democratic in-| Asked to comment on the Pan- stitutions and condemned Interna-| 4ma-United States talks which be- tional Communism. gan nearly two months ago, the | Secretary replied that he is not 'No Restrictions On ‘US.-Panama Talks Going OK up-to-date in that matter since he |has not seen the progress report for several days. | . He said, however, that in gen- Foreian Exchange — {erat sonics cr'iseussion in’ some M ways involve the Defense Depart- Savs Uruguayan Bank | ment and the Army Department | even more than the State Depart- MONTEVIDEO, Uruguay () —| ment. He said that the negotiations A recent ban on ‘‘futures” trading raised some every complex ques- in the foreign exchange market tion adding that the is confident is desinged to curb excessive spec- that they will be resolved in an ulation and does not affect legiti-| entirely satisfactory way. mate commercial transactions, a BEE spokesman for Uri ’s Centr: Bonk cua,” Cresves’s Central Arms Found In Miguel B. Rognoni, assistant i ‘manager of the Banco de la Re-| Cuban Hospital | publica, said the ban, issued Nov.| HAVANA i) — Three men who} 9 was not intended in any way to} were said to be members of the restrict free foreign exchange op-| Orthodox Party were arrested here| erations. | according to an announcement Officials of the bank are deter-| made by the Department of In-| mined to maintain the widest free-| vestigation. | dom in this field and I can assure} The police seized one machine | that they never thought to curb gun, two small fire arms and some | that freedom,” Rognoni said. | ammunition. The defendants, the He stressed that “futures” trad-| department said, said that the| ing still is permitted in connec-| arms belonged to an organization tion with normal commercial op-| called ‘Triple A’, headed by the erations. | former Minister of Education dur- Rognoni charged that speculators |ing the administration of Carlos took advantage of free conditions | Prio Socarras, Aureliano Sanchez here ‘“‘such as no other country| Arango. offers”, to engage in a “series of| They added that they used the speculative maneuvers which ser-| arms for target shooting. The iously | disturbed exchange quota-| arms were found in the Chemistry tions.’ fe department of a private hospital. its participation and voting record | outside Bolivia | economic |ivian people,’ nited States, | | Partido Unificacién Democratica - t |PUD- won the primary elections |® future ke in Guatemala City with a slight| Will prevent from doing that action. No sé si iré (or podré ir) al cine. dor ‘Andrade Accusations ivia.”” The Ambassador further on cit the position adopted by Bolivia in | support of the United States and | in the United Nations as evidence | against the allegations of Hertzog, who has described the present government of his country as Com- | munist. ‘Moreover,’ he goes on| to say ,‘‘the Bolivian government | is the object of heated attacks by | the Communists both within and | Andrade made by rejects the charges Hertzog against the policies of the present | government. He rebuts the state- | ment of the ex-Bolivian president | to the effect that the government | “has confiscated private property,” by saying that ‘the laws of Bolivia | decree that the mineral wealth of | that country belongs to the Bol-| "and that “‘the gov- ernment did no more than cancel } the concessions owned by the tin) barons.” He reiterates that, in op- | position to Hertzog’s charges, the | owners of all nationalized proper- ties will receive a fair price from | the government, and he ends his | letter by saying: ‘‘Hertzog forgets | \the legacy which he bestowed upon our country, when he left the presidency in 1949. He left us a legacy of poor government and in- |stability; it’s no wonder that our economic troubles, have reached |mountainous proportions during |the last four years.” [Anti-Reds Win Primary Election ‘In Guatemala City GUATEMALA () The anti- Communist coalition headed by the margin over the Democratic Elec-| toral Front - the official party coal- | ition- according to unofficial press dispatches. The final results from the Elec-) toral Boards had not yet been re-! ceived. According to incomplete returns, as published in the local papers, | the Democratic Electoral Front} won, however, in most of the mun- icipalities in the interior. A bulle-| tin issued by the Democratic Electoral Front says that the left- ist coalition won eighty per cent of the country’s primary elections. No incidents have been reported up to now between the government forces and the opposition. The); Democratic Electoral Front includ- es the revolutionary parties and | the Communist Party. It claims to! have been significantly successful in various municipalities, | the | following {him and Guillermo del FOR LIBERTY, CULTURE AND HEMISPHERIC SOLIDARITY Curtailment Of Oil Imports May Cause Serious § NEW YORK N. Y survey dealing with shipping trade problems, the Jo’ Commerce repc that i ted to curtail its ports of Venezuelan pet trade would feel the rep The article st and Color represent probabili healthiest areas served by the United State. The report problem confronting ec engaged ‘go service to the north coast of outh America revolves around Venezuelan , which under ordin. ary ¢ not even transported companies The shipping line ent maneuvers United State imports Venezu reducing Ve ® — In¢ the ates were adds the yanies in by that pres- will lower income an purchase merchandise These purche a » of Har thus States vided erious other s The curtailment routes.” Zazine gor {him to visit his country any time | that’ even cannot obsc pects whic ping concerns, inasmuch creasing demand for iron ore in the United cause a tremendous ex rt of this mine uct by the end of 1954 or ginning of 1955. The Journal of Commerce then presents statistics to show that Venezuela has displaced Brazil as the principal purchaser of Ameri an in Venezuelan ates will Chilean Senate E Settle Copper ¢ _SANTIAGO, Chile (i Accord ing to information supplied by Mr. Rodolfo Mitchell, vice-president of the Anaconda ( Company, ap opper erview Pedre Chilean Minister of the Tree and Economy, the Chilean copper situation is expected to be settled th week, when the Senate finished consideration the port submitted to it by Ibanez President Mr. Mitchell added that accord ing to Minister del Pedregal, the Senate studying a proposal. which, if it were approved, would lead to an immediate renewal of negotiations for the sale of ulated copper stocks and a solution of the labor dispute at the Chu quicamata and Potrerillos mines, a n: already in its fiftieth day Mr. Mitchell didn’t specify sale price for the copper, indicated that “the world x 30 cents a pound can be defended, “a statement that was unoffi y interpreted as a meaning that the government expects the Senate to allow it to sell Chile’s copper at the world market price There are 6,600 workers legally in strike at both mines. There has been a suspension of negotiations for wage increases totaling 5 mil- lion pesos a year, according to the managemert of the two mines. hi Problems the first eight year, Venezuela, - 5,300,000 worth of United rvices, while $185,600,000 p but to Colombia cent during is of this year, total of -$181,500,000 the for Jenezuela, month: income Color untries 1 econo- ultural new indus- raged and and now that Colombia share 2 on t dbs ence place along list of coun- tot the i only pin, tries two coun- ause the distance itself ence ables the cor small number service The article ends by saying that has enabled Venezue uild fine m h rival A Zood sé pested To. stion Seon Howe that are not a figer but that their amount to 400 million pe good tra and Colom chant fleets, wh in lines giving e and receiving excellent X € a Vv 1 claims oS Meanwhile, th mittee for for ury and mine 1 request Senate joint com- n rel treas- has been meeting to sti e for umula ions, behind clo: doors government ng of It was learned unofficially, igh cf ation was lacking, that the following proposals would receive ty approval: tocks major 1) Acceptar to the President's copper to the sents apound? offer United 2) Recommendation that copper stocks be to compete on the world market at the free price; allowed 3) Establishment of the fact that trade in copper can be carried on only with the Westera World be- cause of international treaties still in force that must be respected; 4) Recommendation that the Cen- tral Bank no longer be responsible for copper export si and that it be supplanted in this work by ‘a specially created agency; 5) Recommendation for modifi- cation of the s ms of taxes and emittance of do! earnings for 'the copper producing companies. SPANISH LESSONS FOR BEGINNE By G. B, Palacin Professor of the University of Miami, Fla. LESSON 27 (a) Present Subjunctive (Continued). comience comiences comience vuelva vuelvas vuelva volvamos volvaais vuelvan comencéis comiencen comencemos venga vengas venga vengamos vengais vengan Volver to return;comenzar to commence, begin; venir to come. The Present Subjunctive and the Future Indicat The present subjunctive and the future indicative angeable. re not interch- The future indicative is used in a subordinate clause expressing the movies. The present subjunctive is used as doubtful. action when the speaker does not know if any circumstance I de not know if I shall go to when that future action is expressed No sé si vaya al cine. I do not know if I go to the movies. With the verbs creer (to believe) P hope), entender (to understand), and othe ar (to think) esperar (to , expressed in present tense, the future indicative expresses more probability or certitude Pyan the ~ present subjunctive. Future indicative: Creo que vendra (Maria) { believe she will come Present subjunctivi come. No creo que venga. | do not believe she may CORRECTION OF TYPOGRAPHICAL ERRORS: Lesson 25 (d)—Line 3, Read: mejorar to improve, better, augment. Lesson 25 (d)—Lines 25-26. Read: porque en el Brasil hay algo mas que café, y en Cuba hay algo mé ; que azucar.., Lesson 25 (d).—Line 30. Read: muchos latinoamerieanos son buenos economistas, Lesson 25 (d)—Lines 36-37—Read: por qué ea Latimoamérica no se puece formar una gran economia regional