Lopez Returns

A nation which has celebrated its 400th anniversary and which proudly calls Bogota, its leading city, "the Athens of America," inaugurated a new-old President last week. He was scholarly, able Dr. Alfonso Lopez, President during 1934-38, now returning to office after the four-year interval decreed by a constitutional nonsuccession clause.

Banker turned social reformer, Dr. Lopez opened his first term with a new deal program of public works which changed the faces of Colombia's cities. His new term, into which he stepped fresh from a 26-day visit in the U.S., opens with a new deal in U.S.-Colombian relations which may change the appearance of Colombia's hinterlands.

In savage coastal jungles there are many wild rubber trees. In the remote mountains and inland plains grows the cinchona tree (quinine); there grow also fique, pita and malba, all tough fibrous plants. With Colombia's aid the U.S. may replace some of the rubber, quinine and hemp lost to the United Nations in the Far East.

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