PERU: I... Eternal....

"I. . . Eternal. . . ."

Once employed by New York Life Insurance Co., courageous little Señor Augusto B. Leguía ("The Bantam Roosevelt of Peru") is now in his fourth term as President. Last week he gave the entire membership of the Chamber of Deputies a surprise party at his imposing Presidential Palace.

What fiery little Leguía wanted of them the Deputies did not know. It appeared, as he began to speak, that he wished to tell them about a 17-year-old boy, one Humberto Peña Olivera.

This boy, the President explained, had been...

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