Show I The New President Guatemala I know General Barillas intimately said the Guatemalan minister Senor Batres to a Post reporter recently He is a man of high birth and of the most liberal education He has been in this I country and in Europe and is an accomplished accom-plished linguist He is an able and eminently good man and his career in Guatemala has been most illustrious in business political and military affairs l As a merchant he added largely to his I inherited estate and enjoys the confidence and respect of the whole business community com-munity He has rendered distinguished I of service as a senator and as governor i Queczaltenango and four years ago when General Barrios was for the second time I I I elected president Barillas was elected the i 1 first of our two vicepresidents He is I also regarded as one of our ablest gen I I ends Is he popular I I kind and Extremely so He has a the affec I magnetic nature which attracts 1 tions of all classes I cannot say whether I he will contini j o I have no direct communication com-munication h Guatemala He was I Barrio V bosom friend but his temper is conservative He is not more than forty I years old is mairied and has a most interesting in-teresting family In peisonal appearance I he is tall and finely formed neither stout slender and very erect He wears a nor magnificent flowing black beard His features are regular his eyes dark and his whole appearance at once striking and i handsome Washington Post |