Diario las Américas Newspaper, February 19, 1958, Page 12

Inter - American News for English - Speaking people 5th YEAR @ 4 SAN ROMAN President FRANCISCO AGUIRRE Vice President and Publishes Antonio Ruiz Managing Editor Pablishea daily except Monday — Entered as second class matter st the Post Office of Miami Springs Fla. om February 8. 195. EDITORIAL THE FOREIGN EXCHANGE PROBLEM IN SOME OF THE LATIN AMERICAN CUUNTRIES Yesterday we pul ‘ished a report from Santiago, Chile, revealing that that country is negotiating with Czechoslo- vakia for acceptable financing for an electrification plan, for which Chile had requested a credit of twenty-five million dollars from the International Bank. The same report reveals that the credit was denied, because officials of the Bank consider that Chile is spend- ing foreign exchange above her capacity. Without wishing to enter into discussions of technical which correspond to economic experts, we believe it is opportune to emphasize the fact that, the same as Chile, there are several Latin American countries suf- fering a crisis of foreign exchange shortage, which results in multiple problems of economic order for those countries, and which also bring serious handicaps for the develop- character, ment of their life according Naturally, as a fundamental question, that lack of equilibrium or balance between dollar income and expen- ditures in those countries, constitutes a problem which must be carefully studied and that the Governments of the interested nations must the field of international cooperation, perhaps a more liberal policy could be applied, so to speak, to help in the solution of that type of crisis To allow that the people of some countries are de- prived of the progress of civilization because there is a Shortage of foreign exchange, without engaging in any collective effort to solve the problem, is not very conve- nient for international trade, who, for reasons of the present interdependence and soli- darity, expect international solution of their problems. minate the need that the countries affected by a foreign exchange crisis adopt drastic measures to prevent the dollar exodus, in particular for expenditures that may be considered unnecessary. It is to be hoped that economic matters and international credits will engage in efforts to, find, as soon as problems, regarding which there has been international concern, and agencies have been created to eliminate or lessen that type of crises. kk Latin American Firance and Trade News Reports PUERTO RICO GAINS IN HOTEL FACILITIES SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico, (UP). — This tropical island is pushing hard to add 1,000 hotel rooms to its tourist accommodations this year, most of them in San Juan. Enthusiastic Puerto Ricans are out to demonstrate to American travelers that Ponce de Leon need not have voyaged on to Florida in search of the Fountain of Youth. They lay claim to it here in their year-round sunshine and a month- ly temperature range averaging 75 degrees from January to March to 81 degrees jn August. By virtually every yardstick — trade, per capita income, industrial development — Puerto Rico has made phenomenal progress in the years since World War II. Average family income here today is near- ly $2,500 a year, double that of 10 years ago; per capita income is the second highest among Latin Amer- ican countries (Venezuela is first). TOURISM BOOMS Tourism has become a leading industry. A decade ago the island had 59,000 visitors a year; in 1957 there were about 200,000. Hence the new hotels. The latest of these is the 320- room San Juan Intercontinental, opened Feb 1, It is located bet- ween San Juan and International Airport, overlooking a palm-fring- ed beach, protected .by coral reef b..rriers. This air- conditioned hostelry is operated by the Intercontinental Hotels Corporation, a subsidiary of Pan American World Airways. Pan American planes reach San Juan from New York in a little over five hours. Jet passenger planes, ex- pected to be introduced on this route late his year, will cut this to three hours and will reach San Juan from Miami in two hours. NEW HOTELS PLANNED If the builders of the San Juan Intercontinental overlooked any- thing, it is difficult to name it. Each room has a private balcony overlooking the Atlantic; there is a night club a casino, an Olympic- size swimming pool, an assortment of bars and restaurants, commodi- ous cabanas and a beach at the ac*door. The 16-acre establishment cost $7,500,000 and is one of the 14 hotels operated by the Interconti- nental Hotels Corporation in Latin America, The firm is building an- | Other at Ponce on the south coast &. wv. Vice THE AMERIBAS DAILY |. SMITE 8. SMITB President Vice President HORACIO AGUIRRE Vieo President Wditor and Mamager Eliseo Riera-Gomez Advt. & Cire Mer. to modern progress. try to solve. However, in in the countries affected. nor is it fair for the people cooperation for an adequate Of course, this does not eli- those who are specialists in possible, a solution for those ee eae, 3 [of Puerto Rico and has plans for others in Europe and the Orient. Pan American began operating hotels to make it easier and more pleasant for Americans to travel abroad. The San Juan Intercon- tinental is their sixth hotel in the West Indies. There is one at Cura- cao, two in Ciudad Trujillo and |two in Cuba, at Havana and Vara-| dero Beach. Extensive Expansion Work by Shell in Venezuela MARACAIBO —({SICO— Work has started for the construction of a) shell Oil Terminal in the Mi- randa District, Zulia State, which | will have the name of Puerto Mi- randa. At the same time, work has been started in the construc- | tion of two large oil tanks, with a capacity for storing 160,000 barrels of oil, which will be brought from Boscan. At the same time, construction of a pipeline about 24 miles long has been started. It has 16 inches diameter. About 16 miles are overland, and the rest under the lake. Shell also announced that it has started dredging in Puerto Miranda, where the waters will be} about 60 feet deep, so that tankers | up to 60,000 tons will he able to dock there. Perd Building Factory te Produce Synthetic Nitrate ‘LIMA (UP)—The first factory to produce synthetic nitrate in the neighboring port of Callao, in Pert, will open its operations in 1959. - A big factory, a few meters from the sea, in the outskirts of Callao, belonging to the firm “FERTIZA” (Shynthetic Fertilizers S. A.) with eighty per cent Peruvian capital, is being built. Three hundred workers are used in this construction which it is expected to be finished at the beginning of next year. The cost of the factory will be of one hundred eight million soles, equivalent to nine millions dollars. It will produce fifty thousand tons of synthetic fertilizers yearly. It is estimated Peruvian agricul- ture has a dieficit of 900,000 tons yearly, The factory, also, will produce 5,000 yearly tons of ammonia ni- trate and 1,500 yearly tons of rd Three Cuba on Plot to HOUSTON, Tex., Feb. 18 (UP) | Three men, inciuding a former Cu- day on charges in connection with| a reported plot to invade Cuba | and overthrow the government. Hearing was scheduled _ before | U.S. Commissioner Ralph L. Fowl- | er on the three men, who were charged following their arrest yes- | terday with violation of the Na-| tional Firearms Act. | The trio included Pedro Luis Chaviano Reyes, 44, who said he| Know thy Neighbor By ANTONIO RUIZ BOLIVIA — Located almost in the center of South America, Bo- livia has the distinction, with Ti- bet, of being one of the highest in- habited regions in the whole world. It has been frequently called the Switzerland of South America, because it is very mountainous and had no seacoast. It carries on all her overseas trade using the Paci-; fie ports Antofagasta and Arica, in| Chile, and Mollendo in Pert, from where there are railroads to La Paz. Most of the population and activity of the country are in the “altiplano” or plateau, high in the Andes Mountains. The population of Bolivia is over 4,000,000 and the country has an area of 416,000 square miles. The official language of the coun try is Spanish, and the form of Government a Republic. The prin- cipal exports are tin, tungsten, an- timony, silver, zinc, lead, and cop- per,. with a small portion of quin- ine. bar, nuts rubber and coca) leaves, Almost everything else has to be imported, mainly livestock wheat, sugar, maachinery and ac- cessories, textiles, automobilies and trucks, drugs and chemical pro- ducts, etc. ee La Paz, leading city of Bolivia, is the seat of the National Govern- ment, and has about 360,000 in- habitants, It was founded in 1548 by the Spaniards, and is located at an altitude of about 12,000 feet above sea level, which makes it the highest capital city in the world. Some foreigners find the altitude very difficult during the first few days, and usually are advised to walk as little as possible. The weather is cool all year round, and | cold in the winter. In and around La Paz there are many picturesque Indian markets, which constitute a real novelty to all foreign visitors. The Cathedral is one of the largest churches in the Western Hemisphere. A tour around the city shows the different stages of history in its various architectures. The Tiahuanaco Mu- seum and the Prado with its beautiful prometade, are the pride of the city. 4 Although the Government has its headquarters at La Paz, the legal capital of the country is Sucre with a population of 40,000. There the, Supreme Court holds its sessions. It is also the capital of the De-! partment of Chuquisaca, and seat! of the Archbishopric ot La Plata | and the University of San Francis- co Xavier. k Historically, Sucre is one of the most interesting cities of Bolivia. It is iocated about 316 miles south- east of La Paz, in a fertile valley surrounded by hills, at an altitude of 9,313 feet. It has a mild climate which has made it the favorite of wealthier Bolivian families and of many Government officials. It is important distribution center for the surrounding region, which is largely agricultural and it also has a good number of industries. Su- cre 1s also a cultural center, with numerous schools libraries and museums. Cochabamba, with 80,000 inhab- itants ranks second in size. It is the| capital of the Department of the | same name, and is located 190 miles southeast of La Paz. It is the distributing center of Eastern Bolivia, being strategically located on the main road from the “alti- plano” to the eastern lowlands. Outstanding public buildings are the Government Palace, the Cathe- dral, the Acha Theatre and the Stadium. Most of the private dwell- ings are two-story houses of Span- ish eolonial style, with balconies and patios. Cochabamba has a mild- er and more even climate than La Paz, being only 8,448 feet above sea level, Aside from its significant location on the main east-west art- ery of Bolivia, Cochabamba is also important as the center of the coun try’s richest agricultural region, It also engages in some manufact- concentrated nitric acid for the manufacture of explosives. uring activity. Spanish Version Page 3 of Miami Held in Texas ban Army sergeant, were held to-| past year, Silverio Villamia, 34, For a. better understandin Miami Springs, Fla. WEDNESDAY, February 19, 195 n_ Residents invade Cuba was a former Cuban ‘Army ser- | geant and had lived in Miami the and Francisco Obregén, 38, also of Miami. A fourth man arrested yesterday in a crackdown by federal and loe- al authorities ai nearby Pasadena was Angel Bajios, 23, Miami. How- ever, he was released after ques- tioning, Chaviano was among eight men who were indicted Feb. 13 by a Federal Grand Jury in New York on charges of conspiring to trans- port arms in a military expedi- tion against Cuba, in violation of | United States’ neutrality. Among the eight indicted was former Cuban President Carlos Prio Socarrds, who was arrested at Miami last Friday but made bond | Sunday night and was released. | Authorities declined to comment on wether they found a reported cache of weapons and ammunition, although the charges filed against the three men appeared to indicate | that they did. Chaviano, , Villamia and Obre- gén were charged with conspir- ing to violate tne National Fire- arms Act, failing to register fire- arms, unlawful possession of trans- ferred firearms, and possession of firearms on which identification | Ydigoras May Pay Visit fo Eisenhower in Washington, | WASHINGTON, Feb. 18. (UP). President Eisenhower ix expected to invite- Guatemalan’s President- elect, Miguel Ydigoras Fuentes, to be his guest here. The arrival of Ydigoras Fuen- tes to this ‘Capital is expected next Sunday for a stay of three days. The Presidente-elect of Guate- mala, whose Party defeated fol- lowers of the late President Car- los Castillo Armas, has announe- ed his desire to visit Washington. Local officials said it was very important that Ydigoras should meet President Eisenhower and Secretary of State, Foster Dulles. They added this conference may vanish rumors that the new Pre- sident-elect did not have the friendship of the United States, During the electoral campaign Ydi- goras affirmed United States back- ed official candidate José Luis Cruz Salazar. These officials clearly said the United States remained neutral in the elections of Guatemala, hop- ing only a non-communist would be elected. It is believed Cruz Sa- lazar and Ydigoras are against communism, although it was said numbers had been obliterated. Ydigoras had comunist support. Injustice and Anarchy in Cuba Are. Reaching the Extr “The state of injustice and anarchy now prevalent in Cuba is reaching the extreme,” Dr. Manuel Bisbé, President of the Ortodox Party, says. One more proof of| this is the arrest by police agents of the dictatorship of political prisorners who have been freed by the Courts of Justice through many writs of Habeas Corpus., The measure is a scandalous practice: } they are freed and then rearrested. In view of this unutterable trans- gression of the mandates of the| Law, which in itself tells clearly | to Cuban and extraneous public | opinion of the tragic existence led | by our country, hundreds of poli-| tical prisoners, most of them in| their early youth, confined in the prisons of Havana and Santiago de Cuba and in the Women’s Prison at Mantilla, have declared in a Chile, Pers and eme, Leader Says hunger strike in protest of the abusive disregard of the decisions | of the Supreme Court of Justice. | The behavior of the police} forces of the dictatorship, in fail-| ing to comply with the rulings of our highest. Court of Justice, im- plies absolute disrespect of the Judical Power. This behavior is in contrast with the unconditional respect accorded in the United States and in all the democratic nations to the Supreme Court of Justice. The Orthodox Party considers that it is a human obligation in and outside of Cuba to inspire the best sentiments by pointing out the seriousness of this case, in order to take the necessary measures to remove the causes bebind this heroic determination that is endangering many Cuban lives. Ecuador te Insist on Their Territorial Waters Rights NEW YORK, Feb. 18. (UP). — Pert, Chile, and Ecuador, the three signatories of the Santiago Declaration, will insist once more in their territorial waters rights to control ‘fishing, during the} Geneva United Nations conference} on the matter, Dr. Alberto Ulloa, ex-Foreign Minister and eminent internation- alist presiding the Peruvian de- legation to the meeting beginning Pérez Jiménez is Retired From Army by Venezuelan Gvt. CARACAS, Feb. 18. (UP). — A} spokesman of the Army Staff re ported that Generals Marcos Pé- rez Jiménez, Luis Felipe Llovera| Paez, Oscar Mazzei Carta and Vic- toriano Zambrano, were definitely retired from the National Armed Forces. The elimination of Mazzei, it was said, obeyed to some declara- tions he made in the Maiquetia airport on his way to the United States. Mazzei said “he was represent- ing hte Defense Ministry”, which was false, It was said in military circles that the elimination of the four} army men was made in conformi- ty with article 172 of the Military Code which in one or another way refers to “transgression against moral and good manners and ilicit conduct”. IBANEZ TO VISIT THE U. S. A. EARLY IN MAY SANTIAGO, Feb. 18. —(UP).— Foreign Minister Alberto Seputl- veda announced President Carlos Ibffiez, will leave for United States next April 29 or 30, attend- ing to an invitation extended to him by President Eisenhower. He intends to stay three days in Washington. The rest of the visit program is being arranged through diplomatic channels. in Geneva next Monday, told -to United Press: “We are going to Geneva hoping that the formula adopted by the Jurists Inter Ame- rican Council in its third meeting in Mexico at the beginning of 1956, will be internationally rec- ognized. As the resolution affirm- ed, we believe each country has authority to determine its territo- g between the Americas In publishing this interview, which, no doubt, will be of great interest to our readers THE AMERICAS DAILY wishes to than, President Figueres for his kind words regarding our work to promote better Inter American relations, as well as his words of encouragement for our democratic endeavors, comment: ed in a manner which honors us by the illustrious Latin Amer- ican statesman. To questions submitted by our editors, President Figueres said: “T am very pleased to give you, for THE AMERICAS DAILY, this exclusive interview. Your news- paper has my good will because, in additiof to fulfilling the objec- tive necessity of informing about what goes on in Latin America, its editorial policy is within the bounds of increasingly powerful democra- tie currents which will eventually sweep out the few dictatorships still infesting Latin America.” Question: —What was the de termining factor in your Govern- ment’s decision to request the United Nations to send observers to the elections held in your coun- try on February 2nd? Answer: —The movement which brought me to power has always maintained that human rights have ceased to be a matter under the exclusive jurisdiction of each na- tion, to become an international responsibility. The American De- claration of the Rights and Duties of Man, adopted in ‘April 1948 by the Ninth Inter-American Confe- rence held in Bogota, and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights adopted by the United Nations General Assembly in Dec. of that same year, 1948, recognizes this fact. Among these basic rights of men, internationally recognized, is that of participating in popular elections. where balloting will be clean, secret, periodical and free. Therefore, we deemed it convenient that foreign observers, selected from a list submitted by the United Nations Secretary General, come to our country to observe the electoral process and inform that world organization of the manner in which Costa Rica fulfilled its international obligation of respect- ing the rights of her citizens to freely exercise the privilege of voting. We believe it would be advisable for other democratic nations to benefit from our experience as concerns requesting impartial observers for the electoral process from the United Nations, or the Organization of American States. Thus, a reality would become of what the aforesaid Declarations of Human Rights have proclaimed in rial waters rights to reasonable}theory: That the observance of limits, taking into consideration geographical, geological and bio- logical factors, as well as to the economie needs of its people and to its security and defense”, Ulloa, leaving by plane to Eu- rope, will preside a delegation of two other ex-Foreign Ministers, Enrique Garcia Sayan and Rear- Admiral Edgardo Llosa, and ex- Ambassador Edwin Letts, head of the International Agencies Depart- ment of the Peruvian Foreign Mi- nistry, and Dr. Maximo Cisneros, famous lawyer. When he knew that some inter- pretations of the doctrine of the Latin American countries of the South Pacific, referring to the 200 miles territorial waters rights had been declared im principle as a violation of free navigation, he said: “that, under any circums- tance is considered correct. We are not objecting to free naviga- tion nor trade. Our objection is on fishing in Pert and Chile’s coasts, as this constitutes the main source of life for the people and their national economy. Defense of this right only corresponds to coast countries as a natural right”. He insisted that maintenance of sea resources is of a vital impor- tance to Pert, so much so that continuance of fishing without re- gulation would affect almost all of the coast agriculture, He explained that guano is the fertilizer used by the farmer in the coast of Pert. “It is a God’s send and transpor- tation is the only cost, he said. Anchovies have left because of the abuse in fishing and birds producing guano have fled to Chi- le in search of food. This is a prood demonstrating to what ex- tent the sea problem affects the Peruvian economy”. the basie rights of humans is a matter that concerns the interna- tional community, and not just a particular state, inasmuch as the rights of man do not have their origin in the fact that he is a national of any one country but in the fact that he is a member of the human race. Q.—Some persons have criticized the step taken by your Government of requesting UN observers, alleg- ing that this was a slight to Costa Rican sovereignty. A—I believe there is no founda- tion for such criticism. It is based in an absolute concept of national sovereignty-which, in reality, it has never been possible to apply. Least of all now, that international law has progressed so much as to produce regional organizations like the OAS or wold organizations like the UN. Just as individual liberty, ample as it may be, is restricted by the obligations imposed by com: munity life, sovereignty, conceived as the right which nations have to guide their own destinies, ~has always been subjected to the limi- tations imposed by the interna- tional community, especially in the case when these international obligations have been freely acquired by the government of the particular countries. If Costa Rica consciously and sincerely accepted to become a part of the UN and the OAS, by that same acceptance she agreed to limit her sovereignty, renounc- ing to the unilateral decision of international. matters which may fall within the scope of action of either organization, . Human rights, as I stated in answer to your first question, are not an exclusively domestic matter of each state. They are the respon- sibility of the Inter-American com: munity or of the international community, in spite of the fact that there are still insufficient instra- ments for either agency to protect them adequately. Those of us who truly believe that human rights should be réspected, are obliged to do everything within our power so that these international organi zations will actively participate in their protection. On the other hand, I quote “a good payer needs no security.” If a government is certain that it has taken all necessary measures to | insure that balloting will be free | —as our government did—instead of being inconvenienced by the presence of international observers, we derived great satisfaction from them. We were certain that their report could not be any different from what they rendered. That is, that the electoral process was carried out in a clean and orderly manner, with absolute respect on the part of the authorities for the free play of political parties, and for a free casting of ballots. Q—To what reasons do you attribute the victory of, the opposi- tion in the presidential elections? A.—The answer is obvious: To the division of our party into two factions: The majority, which fostered the candidacy of Francis- co José Orlich, and the minority, which backed the candidacy of Lic. Jorge Rossi. Combining the votes that the members of the Liberation Party cast for the mentioned Orlich and Rossi, they totalled a definite majority over the votes cast for Lie. Echandi by the four coalition groups of the opposition. This problem of electoral divis- iveness within the Democratic Party is classic in Latin America. It is the product of a “raudillo” heritage. It will only disappear when our citizens become amply educated in the concept of the ideological and permanent party as the organ of expression of their political thoughts. In the elections for memebrs of the Legislative Assembly, the op- position groups were divided in two factions: That of Mr. Echandi and that of Mr. Ulate, on the one hand, and that of Dr. Calder6n Guardia and the Communist, on the other. The only faction of the National Liberation Party elected the same number of deputies as all the opposition factions put together. The Rossi faction of Na- tional Liberation elected a suf- ficient number of deputies so that, when added to the majority group of Orlich, our party will have absolute control of the Legislative Power. Q—If the Communist Party was part of the coalition which gave the victory to presidential candi- date Echandi and voted for: the Calderonista slate for members of Congress, do you feel that Com- munist influence will be felt in the new Government? A.—As is known, in 1942 the Communist Party of Costa Rica made a public alliance with the then President Dr. Rafael Angel Calderén Guardia. From that time, control of governmental policies passed into the hands of the Com- munists, In our country we saw for the first time applied the methods of terrorism and electoral fraud through which the Com- munists gained control some years later of the Eastern European nations. After a mockery was made of three successive elections, the people of Costa Rica expressed their decision to no longer support the Calderén communistic regime. It fell upon me to direct the popu- lar uprising that, following five weeks of bloody fighting which left in its wake two thousand dead, overthrew the Communists and their Calderonista’ allies from power, Since then, ten years ago, the Communist Party has been unable to participate in electoral cam- paigns because the organization was outlawed. But in the recent campaign, its former associates, the partisans of Dr. Calderén Guardia, again sought their votes, The Cal- derén - Communist alliance was revived, except that this time, for obvious reasons, it was not made public in documents, although it Was no secret, since the top leader of Costa Rican communism, Manuel Mora, made a speech exhorting his comrades to vote for the Calderén Guardia state. The number of votes cast by the Communists is between 15,000 and 20,000. Lic. Echandi, having won the presidential election by ; Member Inter American Press Association C) For Liberty, Culture and Hemispheric Solidarity NUMBER 192 Defense of Human Rights a World Responsibility, Pres. Figueres Declares OAS, UN DECLARATIONS ON RIGHTS Jam ‘OF MAN RECOGNIZE THAT, HE SAYS Praises THE AMERICAS DAILY for Work te Achieve Greater Inter American Unity | President Figueres a margin of less than 6,000 votes, it is logical to assume that the Communist vote was decisive for him. The Communists had denied their decision to vote for Echandi, But in a speech made yesterday, Red leader Mora admitted that he had given secret instructions to his followers to vote por Echan- di, and he suggested that the opposition’s victory was due to his Party’s decision. I do not know what promises Mr. Echandi may have given the Communists to get their votes. Perhaps he made none. It appears that the least the Communists expect is that their party be given legal recognition, thus permitting them to benefit from all the advantages that the law offers to democratic parties. The group that solicited the Communist vote must feel morally obliged to this re- cognition, , In any event, our party retains the majority in Congress, it con- tinues to have a program of eco- nomic progress and social justice which will permit it to face the advance of Communism whether on its own or'through its former allies, the Calderonistas, or its new allies, the partisans of Messrs, Echandi and Ulate. : Q.—What do you plan to do, Mr. © President, when your term of of- fice is ended? A—What don’t I expect to do, you should ask me. I have so many projects in mind, and I have so many obligations. However, I can summarize my future activities in these few words: Read, write, col- laborate with my party. Government duties have prevent: ed me from keeping up to date with my reading. I have dozens of books to read. I plan, also, to write three books, the outlines of which I have had in mind for some time. The first will be a historical ‘book about “The Natio- nal Liberation War of 1948”, that is, the civil war against Com- munism and Calderonism, which had taken over the government since 1942, The second book will be about economic development problems in Latin America; and the third about Inter-American re- lations and the fight for democracy within our hemisphere. Of course, I feel it is my duty to actively participate in the task which now falls upon my party, to be a responsible opposition. I will also devote some time to my private enterprises, which I have been unable to attend to seriously during the past eight years, Minister Against Further Growth of México City MEXICO CITY (UP)— Economm Secretary Gilberto Loyo has join ed the ever-increasing chorus of voices against the further growth of México City. In a speech before the Toluca Committee for Industrial Develop- ment, the Cabinet Minister called for a decentralization of industry away from the capital, where he said the concentration of factories and workers is already taxing trany easter, housing and other facili- es. 4 Greater Méxicc, with ja populs tion of almost 4,500,000 inhabitants is rapidly reaching its peak point of growth, Loyo said. “Greater demands on its public services would simply create de- ficiencies in general,” he added, Loyo called on industrialists ‘p establish their factories in other Parts of the country. ‘ “This would be a definite boost to the industrial and economic éx- pansion of the country,” he said, “and would at the same time help to solve the urban, social and eco- nomie problems of the nation’s eup-