Word: nicaragua
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Alfonso XIII, then King of Spain, awarded 10,000 sq. mi. to Honduras as umpire in that country's land squabble with Nicaragua. During the past two years both countries have been engaged in a battle of postage stamps bearing maps showing the disputed territory as part of their own domain. Last week the U. S. Government found Nicaraguan and Honduran passions running so high that with Costa Rica and Venezuela it offered its "good offices" to mediate. This offer both little states promptly accepted, slimming chances of any clash. Onetime Nicaraguan President José Maria Moncada denied...
...wavering line running in a southwesterly direction from Cape Gracias a Dios on the Caribbean to the Gulf of Fonseca on the Pacific divides the two Central American Republics of Honduras and Nicaragua. The exact position of this line has been the cause of dispute for many years. Under a treaty signed in 1894, the Government of Spain was called in to arbitrate. The decision awarded in 1906 was rejected by Nicaragua because of "irregularities in procedure." A conference in Washington in 1918 was equally fruitless...
Last week the Nicaraguan Government put out a postage stamp depicting "the official map of Nicaragua." Honduras promptly demanded the stamp's suppression. Nicaragua refused and the rumpus began. Many Nicaraguan residents of Honduras were returned home by their legation in Tegucigalpa; orators of both countries broadcast bitter speeches; Honduran students, learning that Nicaraguan firebrands were urging war, declared themselves ready to fight back, thundered in a manifesto that "to die for the Fatherland is to open the doors of immortality...
...week's end Nicaragua retorted by banning an airmail stamp (allegedly showing the disputed border strip) issued by the Honduran Government in 1935. The decree warned that parcels and mail bearing the stamp would be returned to the place of origin...
Still undaunted, Walker tried to go back to Nicaragua, was arrested as he landed. His last try was an expedition to the Bay Islands, off Honduras. Meeting bad luck from the start, cornered finally by a landing party from a British battleship, Walker threw away his chance to get back to the U. S. when he proclaimed himself the leading citizen of Nicaragua. Protesting to the "civilized world" on the injustice done him by the British, "the gray-eyed man of destiny" spent the six days before he faced a firing squad in meditation and prayer...