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...nation had formally declared war since the League of Nations was founded. Paraguay, which has been fighting Bolivia in the steaming sponge of the Gran Chaco jungle for eleven months, took the brash step. A few hours after Bolivia had formally rejected the peace overtures of neighboring Argentina, Brazil, Chile and Peru, pudgy President Eirebio Ayala of Paraguay issued a proclamation...
That sentence revealed Paraguay's strategy. It forced Argentina, Brazil, Chile and Peru to declare neutrality, thus cutting off landlocked Bolivia from importing munitions. Paraguay on the broad Parana River, which like the Amazon is an international waterway, can bring supplies straight up from...
After a delirious period that produced ten Chilean regimes in 17 months. Chile has had the same chief executive since December, compact, blue-eyed Arturo Alessandri, the "Lion of Tarapaca." There have lately been rumors that Lion Alessandri was slipping...
...Chile's experiment (TIME, April 3) many a State legislator is accused of addressing his constituents. Unlike Chile's experiment, few actually do. Broadcasts have included an hour's discussion on labeling eggs, a speech to abolish schools for a few years because "If my children ain't inherited enough intelligence from me and my wife they ain't deservin' no schoolin'," occasional outbursts of profanity (promptly excluded by alert control operators), learned and informative debate and a Senate committee hearing on a 3.2 % beer bill...
...Argentina. Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Cuba, Costa Rica, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Guatemala, Haiti, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Salvador, Uruguay, Venezuela...