COLOMBIA: Presidential Minister

Richard Coeur de Lion, who spent the greater part of his life as far as possible from his admiring subjects (in Palestine and on the continent), was for a time the most popular, eventually one of the most unpopular, of all medieval kings of England. Last week Dr. Enrique Olaya Hererra, who as Minister to Washington has been absent from his native land for seven years, was elected President of Colombia. After only two weeks of strenuous campaigning he polled nearly twice as large a popular vote as either of his two conservative...

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