Word: bedoya
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...dashes of dramatic license to the facts. Cornel Wilde is a romantic Spanish don who is in favor of U.S. annexation. To prevent the Russians from worming their way into the orange groves, he and tomboyish Teresa Wright work their way into the bandit forces of toothy, grinning Alfonso Bedoya, who is in the pay of Czarist agents...
...number of Paraguayan wounded has placed a heavy burden on all Bolivian detachments." Later figures gave Paraguayan losses at 3,000 dead, 5,000 wounded, 1,633 prisoners including 78 officers. Paraguay did not take this defeat quietly. To the League's Secretary in Geneva Ramon Caballero de Bedoya announced that, to its great regret, Paraguay was about to embark on a campaign of terrorism and bombing of un- fortified towns. "Paraguay's decision," explained Senor de Bedoya, i:is justified by the fact that Bolivia was the first to employ these methods of terrorism. . . . Despite repugnance...
...Geneva, Delegate Caballero de Bedoya offered to arbitrate, said: "Paraguay will never declare war!" Pacific observers were surprised and hurt because no one had bothered yet to ask the League Council to meet and intervene...