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Three years ago an armistice halted the war between Bolivia and Paraguay over the Gran Chaco, a dank jungle region sandwiched between the two nations, over which they have been squabbling for a century. Almost constant negotiations by neutral powers since the armistice have brought the dispute no nearer settlement. Fortnight ago the Chaco Peace Conference in Buenos Aires, composed of representatives of the U. S., Brazil, Argentina, Peru, Chile and Uruguay, offered a solution which would have given landlocked Bolivia a port on the Paraguay river, and thus an outlet to the sea, Bolivia's main interest...
...University of Wisconsin, in North Carolina, in Berkeley, Calif, and in Chicago. They are now associated with the Affiliated Schools for Workers. Bryn Mawr supplies buildings and helps plan the summer school. The teachers come from high schools and colleges. Labor unions, college girls, Y. W. C. A.s, settlement houses and alumnae contribute the scholarships, $250 for each girl. A committee scouts the country for likely students of 20 to 35, for whom the only requirements are a sixth-grade education, three years' working experience and enrollment in local study groups. Some students get leaves of absence from their...
...fell in the grounds of the U. S.-owned Lingnan University, the oldest Christian college in South China, and ripped out a side of the French Paul Doumer Hospital, just across the narrow canal from the island of Shameen, Canton's foreign concession. Bombers power-dived over the settlement, built on a reclaimed sandbar, and released their loads directly above in order to plump them into the populous Chinese West Bund. Settlement police stood guard to beat back any Chinese who might plunge across the narrow canal and try to clamber up Shameen's steep concrete sides...
...peoples of Ecuador and Peru have been squabbling over the Oriente, a dank, roadless, city-less jungle, which lies east of the Pacific Andes, and sprawls between the two little nations. The territory, about the size of New York, is now divided by a temporary demarcation line, pending final settlement under U. S. direction...
...France (n). Australia, China and Uruguay each sent one. The U. S. was meagrely represented by three pianists who happened to be in Europe. Only U. S. entry with any reputation in the U. S. was Ray Lev, Russian-born one-time student at Manhattan's Music School Settlement...