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...bloody, exhausting, three-year Gran Chaco War ended eleven months ago. The victorious Paraguayan officers led by War Hero Colonel Rafael Franco seized the Paraguayan Government last February (TIME, March 2). Last week the losing Bolivian officers, led by Lieut. Colonel German Busch, seized the Bolivian Government in La Paz without firing a shot, kicked out the Army stooge they had put in six months before the War ended, pacific, beet-nosed President José Luis Tejada Sorzana...
...wave of clear delirious joy last week swept the entire southern half of the Western Hemisphere. The great Latin American States of Argentina, Brazil and Chile declared national holidays. In half a dozen capitals the voice of the crowd rang out in the winter air, "Firmose la paz," "The peace is signed." The bloody, three-year Gran Chaco war between Bolivia and Paraguay was over...
Peace. One noon last week the planes of the commissioners soared over the foothills' front. The commanders in the trenches below signaled "Cease firing" to their troops. The little brown men dropped their guns, picked up drums and horns to serenade one another. In La Paz and Asuncion, the women conning the casualty lists for the last few days of the war, had plenty to read. In Bolivia the Government, faced with the return of soldiers who had been led to defeat, looked shaky...
...Paz--Bolivia confident as Paraguayans start big drive in effort to win Gran Chaco war before League of Nations takes action...
...Paz, Bolivia, Dec. 18--Eighty thousand men were thrown into action today in the start of one of the bloodiest battles of the Gran Chaco border war when Paraguay launched her preliminary attack on the Bolivian field base of Villa Montes...