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...United States is evidently aiding Bolivia!" stormed excited Paraguayans. Soon, however, in La Paz an unofficial Bolivian spokesman made the real facts known...
...last week that the presence of white-headed General Hans Kundt, onetime German imperial staff officer and de facto dictator of Bolivia, on the jungle battlefront of the Gran Chaco was worth at least 5,000 men to Bolivia. Following the hysterical, flower-strewn welcome to him in La Paz three weeks ago, a huge airplane was seen circling over the battlefield last week. Open-mouthed Bolivianos in their steaming trenches told each other that it was El Aleman, the German-there is only one German to the army of Bolivia. Immediately thereafter La Paz reported that General Kundt...
Real victor last week was not General Kundt but Pope Pius XI who did something his predecessor Benedict XV was never able to do through the four years of the Great War. The Papal Nuncio in La Paz persuaded both Bolivia and Paraguay to agree to a 24-hour truce commencing at 10 p. m. Christmas...
Defeats brought political crisis to Bolivia. Mobs paraded the streets of La Paz, shouting against the Government for not declaring war, for not pushing the campaign harder. Wrathful patriots locked Bolivia's deputies out of the Congress building and hung a "To Let" sign on the door. The Government was forced to send to Berlin for the man Bolivia exiled in 1930?General Hans Kundt, late of the Imperial German Army, for many years commander-in-chief of the Bolivian Army. In New York last week on his way to La Paz, General Kundt did not deny that...
Meanwhile in La Paz something had to be done to take the citizens' mind off the war last week. The Government put on an exciting celebration of the 400th anniversary of the fall of the Inca Empire...