Word: colombianizing
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Three days earlier in Bogota, Colombia's capital, President & Senora Enrique Olaya Herrera had called at the Bank of the Republic to have their thick gold wedding rings cut from their fingers. Thousands of other Colombian spouses with big finger joints made the same sacrifice. Brides & grooms slipped off their rings, flung them into the Treasury's "Defense Chest...
Involved, perhaps fatally embroiled last week were Colombia and Peru, the protagonists proper, with the United States of Brazil an anxious bystander. Because Mother Amazon is so very long (3,900 mi.) solemn treaties long since made her an "international waterway." Under these treaties Colombian war boats have been slowly steaming up the Amazon and across Brazil with as much freedom as though they were on the open sea. Knowing that trouble might result, Brazilians have had to send troopships of their own up the Amazon to preserve "armed neutrality." Finally from Iquitos, high up Mother Amazon in Peru, gunboats...
Early last September, filibustering Peruvians staged a private raid, seized Leticia. expelled the town's Colombian officials and called on all Peru to applaud their deed. Most of Peru applauded. The surge of patriotism was too strong to be resisted by President Luiz M. Sanchez Cerro of Peru, into whose tough little body would-be assassins have all too often fired bullets (TIME, March 14). By the end of last September both Colombia and Peru were mobilizing men, money and munitions. In Bridgeport, Conn, on Sept. 30, close-lipped Saunders Norvell, president of Remington Arms Co., exuberantly exclaimed...
...Chest." Because Leticia is part of Colombia by treaty right, the sending of Colombian warships, troops and battle planes to recover it is not regarded in Colombia as even remotely an act of war. Many Colombians are convinced that a certain "Mr. Vigil" who owned a property near Leticia called "La Victoria" caused all the trouble by threatening the Colombian Government that unless it bought his property for some $80,000 he would incite Peruvians to seize Leticia. Colombians further believe that their Government refused to be blackmailed, that Mr. Vigil made good his threat. With ease the Colombian Treasury...
Next day the Council of the League of Nations sent to Lima the sort of cablegram it itches to send to Tokyo but dares not. Peru was commanded by the Council "to refrain from any intervention by force on Colombian territory and . . . not hinder the Colombian authorities from the exercise of full sovereignty and jurisdiction in territory recognized by treaty to belong to Colombia...