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...person to the very border of Bolivia proper. Something seemed wrong when their commanding officer, General José Felix Estigarribia, marched them home to poverty-stricken Paraguay, when Foreign Minister Luis Riart signed a modest peace protocol with Bolivia, when the Paraguayan Congress approved it and when President Eusebio Ayala ordered the Paraguayan Army demobilized and Bolivian prisoners returned to Bolivia. The Army had won the war; the politicians were throwing away the victory. Last month General Estigarribia charged Colonel Franco with organizing a so-called National Front of 42,000 War veterans and planning a coup...
...Conference had "settled" the conflict. Facts are that a long-suffering League of Nations Commission has been wallowing about in the swamps between Bolivia and Paraguay. Its members, the major, the two generals, the count and Spanish Chairman Alvarez del Vayo began by conferring in Asuncion with Paraguayan President Eusebio Ayala, a onetime professor of philosophy. They wallowed across the Chaco battlefield and were in La Paz when harassed President Daniel Salamanca of Bolivia received the awful news that his main army had been wiped out by the Paraguayans with a loss of 15,000 men (TIME...
...Puerto Ricans regard Nature's population-reducing visits with fatalistic equanimity. Every few years a hurricane kills a few hundred of them, destroys their homes and crops. They name the hurricane for the saint on whose day it occurred, then forget about it. When on the day of San Eusebio last week the sea became still under a windless sky, natives were suddenly reminded of the hours preceding the hurricane of San Felipe four years ago (TIME, Sept. 24, 1928). They gathered in clusters, looking southeast. A few boarded up their windows. Others did 'nothing until police began herding them...
Experimental Thanatology. A few physiologists are studying the causes of death and ways of retarding them. Most noted is Russia's Alexei Kuliabko. Noted too is France's Eusebio Adolfo Hernandez, who urged the Congress to organize an international organization for Experimental Thanatology...
Paraguay. The Congress elected Dr. Eligio Ayala Provisional President in place of Dr. Eusebio Ayala, resigned...