MANACORDA, TELMO. Itinerario y espíritu de Jacobo Varela. Pp. 347. Montevideo: Impresora Uruguya, S. A., 1950
| Published date | 01 March 1951 |
| Author | Roscoe R. Hill |
| Date | 01 March 1951 |
| DOI | 10.1177/0002716251274001110 |
| Subject Matter | Articles |
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example,
it
would
seem
more
logical
to
follow
the
opening
chapters
on
political
and
constitutional
history
with
a
discussion
of
politics
and
political
parties,
rather
than
to
leave
this
important
topic
until
the
courts,
local
government,
and
the
national
executive
have
been
discussed.
In
this
way
some
repetition
might
have
been
avoided.
Similarly,
the
chapter
entitled
&dquo;Colonial
Courts&dquo;
contains
a
section
on
the
philosophy
and
history
of
law
in
Honduras
that
might
better
stand
on
its
own
merits,
rather
than
hidden
under
such
a
general
title.
It
is
obvious,
however,
that
these
matters
are
not
only
of
personal
taste,
but
minor
in
judging
a
really
valuable
con-
tribution
to
the
literature
of
Latin
Amer-
ican
government.
In
his
work
Professor
Stokes
presents
a
careful,
accurate,
and
scholarly
picture
of
governmental
institutions
and
politics
in
Honduras,
to
my
knowledge
the
only
such
study
in
English.
The
extensive
documen-
tation
is
kept
in
the
footnotes,
where
it
does
not
intrude
upon
the
easy
style.
Each
of
the
twelve
chapters
is
semicom-
plete
in
itself,
which
results
in
slight
repeti-
tion,
but
this
is
more
than
compensated
by
the
added
usability
of
the
book
for
specific topics.
The
numerous
pictures
are
a
welcome
addition,
for
they
are
well
chosen
to
supply
a
cross
section
of
individual
types
in
and
out
of
the
government
not
often
seen
in
this
kind
of
study.
The
ap-
pendix
contains
an
English
translation
of
the
Constitution
of
Honduras,
a
list
of
presidents
and
the
dates
of
their
terms,
and
a
compilation
of
laws
and
decrees
pro-
posed
by
the executive
to
the
legislature.
There
is
also
an
extensive
bibliography
of
sources
in
both
Spanish
and
English.
ROBERT
E.
SCOTT
University
of
Illinois
MANACORDA,
TELMO.
Itinerario
y
espíritu
de Jacobo
Varela.
Pp.
347.
Monte-
video:
Impresora
Uruguya,
S.
A.,
1950.
Dr.
Jacobo
Varela
is
an
outstanding
Uruguayan,
who
has
rendered
consecrated
service
to
his
country
during
the
first
half
of
the
twentieth
century.
Lawyer,
pro-
fessor,
governmental
oflicial,
legislator
(rep-
resentative
and
senator),
cabinet
member,
diplomat,
and
member
of
the
Hague
Tri-
bunal
are
the
occupations
which
permitted
him
to
take
a
most
important
place
in
the
affairs
of
Uruguay.
An
eminent
orator,
he
always
expressed
with
clarity
and
pre-
cision
the
views
which he
held
upon
public
matters,
and
he
was
thus
enabled
to
ex-
ercise
great
influence
in
important
decisions.
He
represented
Uruguay
at
many
inter-
national
conferences
and
played
an
active
role
in
most
of
them.
He
was
at
the
Paris
Peace
Conference
in
1919,
the
Chapultepec
inter-American
meeting
in
1945,
and
in
the
same
year
the
San
Francisco
assembly
which
established
the
United
Nations.
He
also
attended
many
other
inter-American
con-
ferences.
For
fifteen
years
he
represented
his
country
before
the
American
Govern-
ment
in
Washington
and
was
an
active
participant
in
the
affairs
of
the
Pan
Amer-
ican
Union.
In
1919
he
became
a
member
of
the
American
Academy
of
Political
and
Social
Science
and
in
1923
participated
in
the
sessions
devoted
to
the
commemoration
of
the
centenary
of
the
Monroe
Doctrine.
Upon
that
occasion
he
spoke
on
&dquo;The
Meaning
of
the
Monroe
Doctrine
to
the
Republic
of
Uruguay.&dquo;
He
recalled
the
expressions
of
sentiment
exchanged
between
President
Jose
Batlle
y
Ordonez
and
ex-
President
Theodore
Roosevelt,
at
the
time
of
the
visit
of
the
latter
to
Montevideo
in
1913,
and
concluded
with
the
wish
that
the
Monroe
Doctrine,
as
interpreted
on
the
previous
evening
by
the
Secretary
of
State,
Charles
Evans
Hughes,
should
long
remain
a
factor
in
the
defense
of
the
Western
Hemisphere
against
any
possible
European
or
outside
encroachment.
The
author
has
chronicled
the
activities
of
Dr.
Varela
and
presented
the
ideas
and
spirit
of
the
man
by
utilizing
extensive
citations
from
his
discourses
and
writings.
The
final
chapter
reveals
that
this
biog-
raphy
was
written
in
repayment
of
a
deep
debt
of
gratitude.
In
1949,
Sr.
Manacorda
was
charged
with
a
violation
of
a
wartime
law
prohibiting
adverse
criticism
of
a
friendly
power,
and
Dr.
Varela
requested
permission
to
speak
on
the
radio
regarding
the
case.
His
eagerly
awaited
address
which
was
an
able
defense
of
the
right
of
freedom
of
speech
in
the
Uruguayan
democracy
is
quoted
almost
in
its
entirety.
As
a
result
of
it,
the
charges
against
Sr.
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