National Affairs: Hoover Progress

Looking daily fatter and persistently genial, President-Elect Hoover last week visited Uruguay and Brazil. The night before the-night-before-Christmas he sailed on the U. S. S. Utah from Rio de Janeiro for home.

"All the Same Age." The morning after Mr. Hoover had left Buenos Aires, La Nacion (potent daily) printed an exclusive and somewhat effusive interview with him. Some new Hooverisms:

"The idea has persisted for a long time that among nations, as in families, there are younger and older brothers. One deduces from this idea that the function of acting as tutor, at...

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