Description: Histoire De L'Abbaye Et Du College De Juilly History of the Abbey and the College of Juilly 1868 Charles Hamel Charles Douniol, Libraire-Editeur Paris History Red Leather Bound, Red Leather Boards Acceptable 250 Beltran Monogram This item is from the Beltrán-Kropp Estate from San Francisco, California. Peruvian Ambassador Pedros Beltrán and his American wife, Miriam Kropp Beltran, were internationally known during the mid-1900’s for their diplomatic and journalistic accomplishments. Beltrán was the Minister of Finance and Prime Minister of Peru from 1959-1961 and was Peruvian ambassador to the U.S. in 1944-45. These books were from his personal library. Beltrán was born in Lima in 1897 into the Peruvian aristocracy. After attending school at the London School of Economics, he returned home to run the family sugar plantation. He became involved with agrarian reform, invented new technologies and worked on behalf of the indigenous laborers. In 1934, he bought the floundering newspaper La Prensa. It was the first Peruvian newspaper to separate news from editorials. At the time, many papers were ruled by government leaders who clouded the waters between news and opinion. As editor and publisher, Beltrán modeled La Prensa after the New York Times, whose Latin American edition he printed and distributed. During his tenure as Peru's Ambassador in Washington, from 1944‐46, Mr. Beltrán polished and refined his knowledge of the American free‐enterprise system, aspects of which he would later apply to Peru's economy. Thus, his two years as Prime Minister came to be marked by fiscal austerity. During the ‘first eight months, for example, he repaid Peru's debt of $14.5 million to the International Monetary Fund; ended food subsidies, sold off official limousines, tightened tax collections and trimmed imports. The economic situation improved. In 1961, he resigned from the Government and returned to La Prensa. Assisted by his American‐born wife, Miriam Kropp of San Francisco, he plunged zestfully into redesigning the paper's typography and its news presentation. La Prensa thrived; Mr. Beltran won many awards, including the prestigious Maria Moors Cabot Prize for Interamerican Journalism, given by Columbia University. Due to his opposition to censorship and advocacy for freedom of the press, Beltrán was imprisoned under the Odrían dictatorship, along with several employees. During this time, Miriam Beltrán, whom he had wed a few years prior, took over running the press. When Odrían shut down La Prensa, she boldly published the story in the Latin American New York Times, which sped up her husband’s release from prison. The Beltráns moved to San Francisco, Miriam’s hometown, in 1974. Beltrán died in 1979, and Miriam Beltrán in 2010. Mr. Beltrán enjoyed a wide‐ranging career — as a politician, an economist, farmer, Peruvian Ambassador to the United States, and publisher of the independent newspaper La Prensa of Lima. It was also a career that spanned some of the most tumultuous years in the history of the South American country. (Excerpts of this discussion are attributable to The New York Times and The Santa Fe New Mexican.)
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