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Show Republics Dr. Wesley Frost, recently appointed ap-pointed Minister to Paraguay, asserts that "the nations ox tne Americas are Kepublics not merely mer-ely m name, but in essential -act." The statement is encouraging .n view of the general belief that most of the Latin-American countries coun-tries are being ruled by dicta-.ors. dicta-.ors. While t.T.s may be true, we resume that Dr. Frost based n:s observation upon the historical histori-cal fact that when South and Central American nations won their independence, they set up systems ol government patterned after that of the United Stales. Underneath their present trou-Dles trou-Dles is to be found a fundamental appreciation of constitutional systems of government. |