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EDITORIAL
LAWS FOR ENCOURAGING THE INVESTMENT
OF FOREIGN CAPITAL IN LATIN AMERICA
A recent editorial of the ”AMERICAS DAIL\
emphasined the need for Latin American countries to
afford adequate guarantees foreign capital and
assure it of sale within
their borders. In any evwit, no investor will consider
undertakings of any Inind inj hemispheric nations
when he is faced with /oped*hostility, especially when
he thinks of some of the sad experiences that have
occurred in that area in the past.
Although a foreign investor it most intimately
concerned about seeing that the governments of
J,atin American countries do not expose his venture
Aipital to violently fluctuating policies, he should
also be reassured by the passage of laws aimed at
encouraging and protecting foreign investments.
In several hemispheric countries, and resently
kin the Associated Free State of Puerto Rico, measures
kiave been adopted which haven’t failed to impress
■foreign capitalists who had previously been unaware
■of the possibilities for investing their money abroad.
L These measures, or rather, laws, to be more
Iprecise, do not harm the nations by which they are
■passed, but on the contrary bring them untold benef
its. At the same time, such statutes must conform
■to economic conditions prevailing in the countries,
and they must contain precise stipulations,
s fixed duration for contracts and definite,
JHH|amental terms aimed at benefiting, whether
BHbctly or indirectly, the economic welfare of the
involved.
[ After a country is in a position to offer reas-
and accommodations to investors
interested in stimulating that country’s economic
life, the only thing left for it to do is to initiate a
wisely directed publicity campaign abroad. It will
find, on doing so, that financial circles in other
countries —and in the United States in particular,
where there are unlimited amounts of unemployed
capital—will welcome the glad news with open
arms.
Countries having laws protecting foreign cap
ital investments must see to it that these laws are
scrupulously observed by honest practices, so that
the interest of foreign investors will grow with the
' passage of time. By the same token, the investor is
beholden to conform to both the letter and spirit of
contracts which he may sign with Latin American
governments, for it is these contracts that assure
1 : *r» of guaranteed benefits.
f\6R European Fences To 3e Housed
[ ':rr‘*s7 In Sig C®!on!za!soa Plan
ASUNCION. Paraguay IP) —Par-!
a ' ay can accommodate 18.000
E iropean families as colonists for
remote areas of the country.
Such is the opinion of the Inter-
C vernmental Committee for Ev-I
r mean Emigration, located at j
C : neva. which considers as prac-)
t'ml a plan of Paraguay for pro-}
n oting such colonization. Drr. Rob- i
e to L. Petit, who is presided of
the Paraguayan Institute for Ag- i
rarian Reform,-attended a recent 1
meeting in Rome of the committee.!
Br. Petit told the United Press
that the committee had been very
interested to learn of the plan.
The families, to come from Italy, j
Germany. Holland and Greece, ]
would settle in the fertile regions
of Caaguazu, Amamba.v and Upper
Parana. They would be given the
chance to acquire land around j
1,000.000 hectares in accordance
with a twenty-year plan. The three }
areas are well supplied with fer- j
tile farm land and virgin forests.
The vast colonization project, !
known as the “Plan for Immigra- }
tion and Development," was work
ed out by the government fol-;
lowing a lengthy survey. The col- ;
konists would constitute an autono
■jpous group with self-government, j
E representative from the Inter-1
Committee for Eu-:
Emigration, who would a!
■MHPHp-i
P mane an on-the-spot study of
tnc plan.
Dr. Petit asserted: "We don’t
just want to establish another
farm colony. What we want is to
carry out a wide development of
those areas." He added that oppor- 1
tunities for establishing industries j
wi' l be afforded not only to colon-j
ists from the four previously men
tioned countries but private citi
ze-:’ ' from other countries as well.
Tiie 13,(W0 families to be moved
to Paraguay would be exempted
for twenty years from paying cus
toms duties on personal effects,
implements and tools, and other
goods usually subject to duties.
The colonists could make use of
up to 5 per cent of their products
and fruits of their labor in any
way they might see fit. The colon
ists themselves would determine
the exact percentage.
The first concern of the Para
guayan government will be to build
roads to the points which will serve
as sites for the colony. Public
works projects for the areas con
cerned are already under study.
The approximate cost of the col
onization program has been esti
mated at $54,000,000. which would
be invested over a several-year
period.
The mission expected in Febru
ary will devote ten months- to a
preliminary study, before the col
onists begin their departure from
Europe.
The details of the plan have al
final form to Geneva.
The areas to be colonized lie in
the southeastern part of the coun
try and are watered by several
rivers, the principal ot them being
the Parana.
Inter-American Peace
(omdftee Convene
WASHINGTON 'IP The Inter-
American Peace Committee met
here and its five members ex
changed viewpoints on the case of
Haya de la Torre.
The session lasted only 45 min
utes, and shortly after the presi
dent of the peace committee, am
bassador Luis Quintanilla of Mex
ico, said that they would meet
again next week.
Through
Latin
America
The name Nicaragua is derived
from Nicarao, the name of an
Indian chief who existed in this
area at the period of the Spanish
Conquest. Columbus himself set
foot on Nicaragua soil, when he
was blown off his course in 1501
on his fourth and last voyage to
t,e New World. In 1519 Spanish
population along the southwestern
discovered a rather dense Indian
population along the southwestern
shores. The promise of an easy
means of communication between
the oceans contributed to the ex
plorations and expeditions in this
area from 1522 on. The Spanish
settlements began to be located
principally in the lake plains, in
spite of the hot climate, in order
to hold more easily in subjection
and to utilize the labor of the
large Indian communities which
had long since grown up there.
Although the original inhabitants
were almost exterminated in many
districts, enough remained to be
come the predominant racial ele
ment in the conglomerate popula
tion. Ttie concentration of the pop
ulation in a few centers has been
one of the dominant factors in
Nicaraguan life since the begin
ning of the Colonial period.
Another important element i n
the history of this country has been
the natural highway between the
Atlantic and the Pacific Oceans
afforded by he basin of the two
lp-ge lakes Lake Nicaragua and
1...xe Managua. In colonial times
the route across the Isthmus
through I .eon to Granada on Lake
water to the Atlantic Ocean was j
commonly used for the transpo- j
tation of products from all parts
of Central America to Spain. Dur- ■
ing most of the colonial period tha
administration of Central America
was placed under the jurisdiction
of the captaincy - general of Gua
temala. In the Spanish colonial
empire the captaincies - general
were administrative units smaller
or less prominent than the vice
royalties, headed by Spanish royal
officers called captains - generals
who possessed both civil and mil
itary power. The captains - gen
eral of Guatemala had charge of
the whole area and local governors
were appointed for Salvador, Hon
duras, Nicaragua and Costa Rica.
The city of Leon was the seat of
the provincial government of Nic
aragua in spite of the commercial
importance of Granada.
The independence of the five
provinces of Central America from
the Spanish crown was proclaimed
in Guatemala City on September
15. 1821. However, while Granada
accepted the new government, the
Spanish governor in Leon, like the
i authorities in many of the other
i provinces, remained faithful to the
mother country. As a result of this
, situation, an intermittent war be
gan which lasted until General
Morazan, who had become presi
den of the Central American Fed
eration after the failure of Mexico
(1822) to unite Central America to
itself, sent Dionisio de Herrera to
Nicaragua as “Chief of State” to
restore law and order.
Bolivian Ambassador
Speaks A' Denyson
GRANVILLE. Ohio (UP) The
Bolivian ambassador asserted in a
speech here that no future Bolivian
government could hope to remain
in power, even by force, if it at
tempeted to return the nationalized
tin mines to its former owners.
Ambassador Victor Andrade
spoke before a forum at Denison
University here. He said his gov
ernment nationalized the tin mines
because their owners were short
sighted persons who kept the Bol
ivian people poor and ignorant,
while maintaining themselves in
power.
“The agitation against nationali
zation has continued because the
forces behind the tin barons hope
they will be able to overthrow the
government and once again rule
without regard lor the masses,”
j Andrade said.
"That hope is vain. No govern
ment can restore the tin mines to
then former owners and maintain
itself even by naked force.”
Andrade described the nationali
zation as an “expression of con
structive nationalism which sought
to recover for the people and for
justice which rightfully belongs to
both.”
Somoza Names
New Minister
MANAGUA itfl— David Rasko
sky, a young businessman, was
appointed "Minister of the Man
aguan National District”.
He succeeds Doctor Julio Quin
tana. who resigned because,of ill
health. c
Doctor Quintana left on Decem
ber 12 for Boston, where he will
undergo a throat operation.
Tke Americas Daily
PRESIDENTS OF COLOMBIA AND
ECUADOR MEET AT SANTA MARTA
Cultural Cooperation Among The Countries Os
The Americas, An Important Topic Os Debate
Brazil and Mexico expected to play
outstanding roles in the discussions
Better organization and a clear
er definition of the objectives of
cultural cooperation among the
countries of the Americas will be
one of the results of the Caracas
conference.
Brazil and Mexico will probably
play important roles in achieving
this task. It is expected that gov
ernments and private institutions
in, the Americas will show greater
enthusiasm and advocate continu
ity and efficiency in cultural co
operation, so that better results
will be forthcoming.
The agenda of .the Tenth Inter-
American Conference, which is to
meet in Caracas next March, con
templates the revision of the con
vention for the promotion of inter-
American cultural relations, which
was approved in Buenos Aires in
1936. There will also be study at
Caracas of a proposal for an In
ter-Americau Cultural Charter,
which was recommended by the
1948 Bogota conference and sub
sequently brought under study by
the Inter-American Cultural Coun
cil, which mot in Mexico City in
1951.
Conclusions arrived at in the
Caracas parley will serve to guide
the second meeting of the Council,
scheduled to be held in Sao Paulo,
Brazil on October 4th of next year.
During the Mexico City session
a large amount of preparatory
work was conferred upon the de
partment of cultural affairs of the
Pan American Union, whose di
rector is Dy. Erico Verissimo,
noted Brazilian writer, whose best
known work is “Time" and the
Wind,” a novel dealing with the
colonization of the Brazilian state
of Rio Grande do Sul. * »
Dr. Verissimo has been depart
ment director since May of 1953,
when he succeeded Dr. Amoroso
Lima, also Brazilian.
Latin American diplomatic cir
Members Os Pan American Medical
Ass’n Visit President Eisenhower
Professional scholarship program gets full
support from the American Chief Executive
WASHINGTON, (UP) The
American Medical Association was
assured by President Eisenhower
that he is interested in that or
ganization’s plan to amplify its
post-graduate scholarship program
so as to permit 100 Latin Ameri
can doctors to come to the United
States annually to pursue three
year courses of study.
The chief executive received
more than 50 members of the as
sociation in his office and later
posed with them in front of photo
graphers.
Association president Dr. Joseph
J. EUer, who headed the delega
tion of doctors, was presented by
Eisenhower with a letter which
read:
“I have been greatly honored to
day to receive these distinguished
representatives of the Pan Ameri
can Medical Association, and I am
happy to extend my greetings to
those members who will partici
pate in the coming convention -
cruise to be held next January
aboard the “Nieuw Amsterdam”
and in the cities of Caracas, Vene
zuela, Ciudad Trujillo, in the Do
minican Republic; Saint Thomas,
Virgin Islands; San Juan, Puerto
Rico, and Havana, Cuba.
“I am deeply interested in see
ing the association's scholarship
program widened, so that levels
of professional ability may be
lifted. Moreoever, understanding
and cooperation among the nations
of the Americas have certainly
been promoted by your 26-y ear
program for exchange of knowl
edge and friendship among doctors
in this hemisphere under your
credo: “The practice of medicine
does not recognize any national,
racial or religious frontiers.”
“You and your colleagues of the
Pan American Medicial Associa
tion can be certain of my support
for these endeayprs.” .
Th extending his personal greet
ing to the doctors, the President
said:
“The letter which I handed you
i cles in Washington said that the
j two Brazilian men of letters have
| carried out a tremendous lot of
| preparatory studies, the import-
I ance of which will be made evi
dent at the Caracas meeting.
For the purpose of giving them
coherence and direction, Verissi
mo has been busy compiling and
synthetizing eight huge volumes of
cultural resolutions and projects
considered at former conferences.
On January , Verissimo will be
gin a 40-day tour of colleges and
universities in the Southwest and
Pacific coast states of the United
States as a part of his program
aimed at encouraging closer co
operation of American institutions
lof higher learning with the inter-
American cultural program. 1 n
March he will go to Caracas to
take part in the conference delib
erations.
When interviewed, Dr. Verissimo
said: “I am of the opinion that
the cultural topics on the Caracas
agenda are of extreme importance,
and I trust that our basic program
will be approved at that time. It
seems to me that all the Ameri
can republics are showing great
interest in developing their cultu
this matter.
The Brazilian writer indicated
that one''of the points to be con
sidered i*i relation with the pro
posed revision of the Buenos Aires
cultural convention is that which
facilitates the exchange of profes
sors and students His department
has prepared a special report on
| this matter
I Verissimo is in favor of a great
er exchange of elementary school
| teachers among the American re
j publics.
Another of his objectives is to
I encourage inter-American confer
' ences of ministers of education
■ and directors, rectors and deans
|of institutions of secondary and
! higher learning
represents official approval of our
participation in your program. I
am unable to tell you how happy
I am that you display so much
professional interest in the enor
mous health problems of the West
ern Hemisphere. You can be cer
tain, as I have already said in
my letter, that I shall do every
thing in my power to aid the en
deavors of your association.”
The President invited the PAMA
members to visit him and inform
him of the contributions made by
the association to understanding
among countries of the Americas
during its twenty-six-year exist
ence.
The doctors conversed with the
President about their plans for a
convention - cruise which will hold
ts sessions aboard the New Am
sterdam during a Caribbean tour.
Dr. EUer stated that personal
contacts among the people o f
neighboring countries can contri
bute to making mistaken ideas
about one another disappear.
Special guests at the White
House for the occasion were Dr.
Milton Eisenhower; Mrs. 0 v et a
Culp Hobby, Secretary of Public
Health, Education and Social Wel
fare; John M. Cabot, assistant
Secretary of State; Major General
Howard M. Snyder, official physi
cian for the White House; and Nel
son A. Rockefeller, Undersecretary
of Public Health. Social Welfare
and Education.
Among members of the PAMA
who attended the White House con
ferencd were Drs. Ramon Aixala,
Julio Schutte, G. Garcia Lopez,
Juan Jose Mestre and Laureano
Falla, all from Havana, and Dr.
Leopoldo E. Lopez, from Caracas.
The Nieuw Amsterdam will leave
New York on January 6th and will
make the following stops; Jan.
10th, Willemstad; Jan. 11th, La
Guaira; Jan. 13th, St. Thomas,
Virgin Island; Jan. 14th, San Juan,
Puerto Rico; Jan. 15th, Ciudad
Trujillo; and Havana, from Jan.
17th to the 20th. _
Red Publications
Banned In The
British Guiana
GEORGETOWN, British Guiana
The following organizations
affiliated with the People’s Pro
gressive Party have been outlaw
ed here by a recent government
decree: The Demerara Youth Ral
ly, the Pioneer Youth League and
the British Guiana Peace Commit
tee.
Another government order has
banned importation of the publi
cations of the World Federation of
Trade Unions and the following
papers: “For a Lasting Peace”,
“For a People's Democracy”,
"Soviet Weekly” and “Caribbean
News”. •
Janet Jagan, wife of ousted
Premier Jagan, and nine ctfher
members of the People’s Progres
sive Party who were accused of
holding an unauthorized meeting,
were brought to Court. They have
been freed under bail and have
maintained their innocence.
The Chief of Security, who acted
as police representative, asked for
a prompt hearing of the case be
cause of the public interest in
volved in it.
Eisenhower Offers
Stale Dinner To
Latin Diplomats
WASHINGTON (IP) President
Eisenhower offered a state dinner
to members of the diplomatic
corps who did not attend a similar
dinner held last week. The party
was divided into two groups, be
cause the White Hou§e cannot ac
commodate all the diplomats at
one time as a special guest during
the dinner was Nicaraguan Ambas
sador Guillermo Sevilla Sacasa,
who ranks second among the dip
lomats accredited here. He is pre
ceded only by the Norwegian am
bassador, who is the dean of the
diplomatic corps.
Among the Latin American am
bassadors who attended the re
ception, accompanied by their
wives, were those of Argentina,
El Salvador, Paraguay, Haiti Cu
ba, Guatemala, Venezuela, Chile,
Mexico, Brazil and the Dominican
Republic. They hold that same
order in respect to precedence, ac
cording to the date on which they
presented thir credentials.
Batista And Former
President Arevalo
Meet In Havana
HAVANA —W A private au
dience was to be held here between
President Batista and Dr. Juan
Jose Arevalo, former president of
Guatemala, it was announced here.
Although the official announce
ment goes so far as to report the
visit of the Guatemalan politican.
political circles are giving special
importance to the interview be
cause of the important role Dr.
Arevalo has had in inter-American
relation?.
Observers point out that Guate
mala has been often mentioned
as the country where Cuban politi
cal exiles have been operating, and
they recall that several Cuban po
liticians have sought refuge in the
Guatemalan embassy here in the
past few days.
The purpose of the meeting be
tween Batista and Arevalo has not
been disclased, but informants
opine that it must be of importance
and may be in regard to relations
between the Cuban government and
Colonel Jacobo Arbenz' regime, in
which ex president Arevalos is still
an influential figure.
New Argentine Envoy
To U.N. Appointed i
BUENOS AIRES (W DoctoJ
Juan I. Cooke, presently an aJ
gentine Ambassador, has been ad
pointed as Argentina’s permanefl
delegate to the United National
Argentine Foreign Minister
Remorino also attending
SANTA MARTA, COLOMBIA, -
<W—Officials of three countries
Colombia, Argentina and Ecuador
—gathered in this Colombian port
city overlooking the Caribbean to
attend a conference of presidents
and foreign ministers commemorat
ing another anniversary of the
death of the Liberator Simon Boli
var.
Colombian Foreign Minister
Evaristo Sourdis told the United
Press: ‘‘The only object of this
meeting of distinguished represen
tatives from the Americas is to
mark the first time that an anni
versary of the Liberator’s death j
has been celebrated under the ausp- j
ices of a Colombian government j
sustained by the armed forces of
the country. No political, economic
nor any other sort of implication,
then, should be loked for in it.”
Nnetheless, other authoritative
sources have said that Colombian
President Gustavo Rojas Pinilla
and Ecuadorean President Jose
Maria Velasco Ibarra would take
advantage of the occasion to dis- \
cuss aspects of thier two countries’
economic relations and other mat
ters of mutual interest. In addition
to the ceremonies commemorating
the death of Bolivar, in which Ar
gentine Foreign 'Minister Jeronimo
Remorino took part, Velasco Ibar
ra and pojas Pinilla held a priv-1
ate conference.
The ceremonies were held in the
Quinta de San Pedro Alejandrino,
a fifteen-minute ride from Santa
Marta, on the same spot where
Bolivar passed away the 17th De
cember, 1830.
The room which had originally
housed the sugar cane press for
the hacienda of San Pedro was
specially decorated for the occas
ion. A table, around which were
seated the dignitaries taking part
in the ceremonies, was placed in
the spacious 12-by-12-meter room.
The long, high, whitewashed walls
of the room were hung with por
traints of Colombian heroes, while
the entrance to the
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arrival in Colombia of the Ecua
doren president, said:
“This land is not unfamiliar to
Sr. Velasco Ibarra, and on finding
himself in it once again, he will
be able to feel that he has rejoined
his family. He spent most of a
period of exile in Colombia, follow
ing the overthrow of his first term
of office by a military coup d’etat.
This was his second homeland for
a long time, and here he distin
guished himself by the forthright
manner with which he faced ad
verse conditions. In our cultural
circles he became well known as a
professor of outstanding .ability and
as a citizen of great virtue. He
always respected the fact that he
was a foreigner, although he was
generally made to feel as if he
were a Colombian.”
SANTA MARTA. Colombia, (IP)
—Foreign Minister Evaristo Sour
dis confirmed officially that Presi
dent Gustavo Rojas Pinilla is wil
ling to accept the invitations to
visit Ecuador and Argentina and
added that the President had also
received invitations from Venezuela
and “other countries in the Ameri
cas”.
Sourdis said that it was still pre
mature to talk about possible dates
for the trips, but an authoritative
source asserted t hat provisional
plans contemplate his leaving
Colombia around July, 1954 for a
tour of the various countries.
Foreign Minister Sourdis added
that President Rojas is “deeply
grateful" for the invitations, as he
considers them a gesture of cordial/
itv and friendship toward Colorn- .
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