Word: leticia
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...Leticia...
Soldiers come cheap in South America. Patched up freight boats will do as warships. Even so, three Class A South American States were beggaring their treasuries last week to fling fleets of battle planes, flotillas of war craft and whole armies of eager young troops upon Leticia, a humid jungle town just under the Equator and 2,500 mi. up the world's biggest river, turgid Mother Amazon who oozes along about as fast as most women walk...
...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 have been slithering down to the swampy, malarial port of trouble, Leticia...
...small cyclone of war vortexed, meanwhile, around Colombia's inland port of Leticia located 2,500 miles above the mighty River Amazon's mouth...
...could be learned a provincial clique of Peruvian Army Officers seized Leticia (TIME, Sept. 26) contrary to the Peruvian Government's wishes and continued to hold it last week, defying both their own Government and Colombia. "Our coup was made necessary," they announced, "by the harshness of Colombia in Colombianizing the ceded territory." (Leticia was ceded by Peru to Colombia...