Word: chaco
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...month now Paraguayans have not been able to get any uncensored mail or foreign newspapers. All they know is what they read in Paraguayan papers whose entire editorial staffs have been chased out and replaced by audacious, cheerful young Army men who idolize the country's great Chaco war-hero and new Dictator, chubby-faced young Col. Rafael Franco (TIME, March 2). Last week, fascinated by government as a child is fascinated by a new toy, the young Colonel began issuing fundamental Constitutional proclamations right & left...
...Bolivian generals who lost the three-year Gran Chaco War for their country dropped into harmless obscurity after the Peace Without Victory wangled by seven American nations (TIME, June 24). Not so last week the Paraguayan colonels who won the war for theirs...
Inasmuch as the Gran Chaco peace protocol, ratified by the Paraguayan Congress, and the international South American declaration in 1932 that "military conquest grants no sovereignty," are now part of Paraguay's national law, Franco could do nothing last week but agree to abide by those treaties...
...writer's tools were less expensive, he took to wandering around the Mediterranean countries, "learning to drink wine and to tighten my belt from time to time." Other places seen: the Austro-Italian front (as a war-artist), South America (where he was lost in the Gran Chaco). At 36 he is married, settled at The Hague. One other novel of Fabricius', Lions Starve in Naples, has been published...
...Chaco having long since been buried in old newspaper files, President Roosevelt last week proclaimed that, provided Bolivia and Paraguay would import no arms and munitions until after a formal treaty of peace had been ratified, the U. S. embargo on such shipments to them would be lifted...