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77 Bull. Pan Am. Union 536 (1943)

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NECROLOGY


DANIEL  ALOMiA ROBLES.-Peruvian   com-
poser and compiler of folk music. When
not yet 20 began to study folk music and
started a crusade which carried him all
over Peru and into Bolivia and Ecuador.
Once  journeyed  on foot from  Lima  to
Iquitos seeking the  origins of musical
folklore. Collected more than 1,200 In-
dian, colonial, and republican melodies.
Through  concert and lecture tours carried
Peruvian music  to the rest of this Hem-
isphere. Spent 14  years in the United
States (1919-33). Interest in folk music
led  him  to  composing.  Composer   of
Ballet Inca; an opera, Illa Cori, selected by
the President of the United States to be
presented at the Panama Canal inaugura-
tion festivities in 1914 (not held because
of the war); two  symphonic  poems, El
Indio and  El Resurgimiento de los Andes;
Himno al Sol; etc. Died in Lima July 17,
1942 at 71 years of age.
  MIGUEL  ANGEL   ARA'J.-Salvadorean
statesman. Born  in  Jucuapa  in  1858.
Received  degree of Doctor of Law  and
Social Sciences from the Universidad Na-
cional in 1882. Held judgeships in Jucua-
pa, San Salvador, and AlhuachapAu  and
was  later a magistrate of the Supreme
Court.  Appointed  Minister of  Foreign
Affairs in 1931 and had since been active
in international affairs: instrumental in
the settlement of the Guatemala-El Sal-
vador boundary  question and signing of
the  trade agreement  between  the two
countries; at the time of the London Eco-
nomic  Conference  (1933) suggested an
economic  conference to discuss the idea
of a Latin American  confederation as a
means  of mitigating economic difficulties;
drew up proposals for an American League
of Nations and a Court of  International
      536


Justice for the Americas submitted to tlx
Seventh   International  Conference o1
American  States at Montevideo; signed a
commercial  treaty with Canada  (1937);
recognized for El Salvador  the govern-
ment  of Manchukuo;  announced  El Sal-
vador's withdrawal  from the League of
Nations  (1937). Decorated  by  various
foreign governments   (Haiti, Colombia,
France).  In addition to holding post of
Foreign Minister was Minister of Justice
and   Public Instruction. Died  in San
Salvador August  2, 1942.
  Louis BORNo.-Haitian  lawyer and pub-
lic official. Born at Port-au-Prince Sep,
tember  20, 1865. Educated at the Ecole
Polymathique  and College Saint-Martiai
Port-au-Prince; Faculty of Law, Univer-
sity of Paris (1887-90). Professor in the
National  Law School, Port-au-Prince
(1892-4).  Started his public career as
charg6   d'affaires and  later Minister
Plenipotentiary to the Dominican Repub.
lic (1899-1908). Continued  to hold im-
portant official posts: Secretary of Foreign
Affairs and  Worship  (1908); Judge  of
the Court of Cassation (1912-14); Secre-
tary  of Foreign  Relations and Justice
(1914-15); Secretary of Foreign Affairs,
Worship,  Public Instruction, Labor, and
Finance  (1915-17); Secretary of Foreign
Affairs and   Finance  (1918); Director
of the National  Law  School (1919-22);
member   of the Permanent Court  of The
Hague (1919-22). Career reached its
climax  when   he  became  President o
Haiti (1922-30).
  Decorated  by his own  and other gov-
  ernments. Founder  of  the  Order  of
  Honor and Merit of Haiti. Author of the
  Code Civil d'Haiti Annot6,  Code   de
  Commerce  d'HaYti Annot6.  and  other


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