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trees from the Canal Zone to Don Felix Chaussay, then 

 Minister of Agriculture, who was extremely anxious to 

 introduce this fruit into his country. I hope they throve 

 and are bearing now. 



While the colorful Indians have about disappeared in 

 Salvador they still remain in Guatemala, each Indian city 

 having its different and attractive costume. The extraordi- 

 narily interesting religious observances are perplexing and 

 difficult indeed to study unless you speak one of the Mayan 

 languages, as I, unfortunately, do not. I have seen sand 

 paintings as elaborate as anything which the Navajos ever 

 made, on the floor of the Church at San Antonio de Aguas 

 Calientes. 



Why North Americans have been so slow in learning 

 the charms of Latin America is difficult to explain. I sup- 

 pose it is because of the language barrier. North Americans 

 are generally a unilingual people. Cultivated South Amer- 

 icans are bilingual but their second language has been 

 French. Most North American college executives a few 

 decades ago rather dreaded the advent of Latin-American 

 students. They usually had too much money and too few 

 morals. The truth was the best of them went to study in 

 France. Now this is all changed and since I have served on 

 the Latin-American Board of the John Simon Guggenheim 

 Memorial Foundation I have had to do with the bringing 

 to America of a number of most outstanding young schol- 

 ars. It has been sad, at times, to see the way these young 

 men, after they have completed their studies, have been 

 grabbed up and given positions in American institutions, 

 when the purposes of the Foundation would have been 



