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...Bolivian Indians are Andes highlanders who know how to handle llamas, have never won a war. They work in Simon Patino's tin mines, producing one-quarter of the world's tin, avoid the flooded bottomlands of eastern Bolivia and, 3,000,000 strong, have sense enough to rebel periodically against their 250,000 white overlords...
...less honest press coverage than any war of modern times, have been about 100,000; wounded about the same. The mysterious Gran Chaco has at last been explored, even to some extent developed and colonized. Economically, Paraguay is no better off than Bolivia; both are financially exhausted. Simon Patiño's mine stocks were up last week. And last week in Asuncion there was earnest talk of rewarding Paraguay's able General Estigarribia with the rank of Marshal, a title last held by the great Tyrant López, as well as a life income...
...should not now be made Prime Minister, on the theory that he is India's Emancipator, the Abraham Lincoln of 350,000,000 souls, Sir Sam cannot quite see. Therefore he absolutely demanded and got the Foreign Office as a minimum reward, ousting Sir John Simon, who was made Home Secretary last week, thus ousting into limbo Sir John Gilmour. one of the hardest-working, least appreciated Home Secretaries in many a year...
AMERICAN MESSIAHS-The Unofficial Observer-Simon & Schuster ($2). Timely appraisals of Huey Long, Father Coughlin, Upton Sinclair and other politicians, by the anonymous author of The New Dealers...
Some 350 doctors will report on significant medical studies which they accomplished during the past year-from Philadelphia's Louis Manuel Lieberman & Simon Stein Leopold's "Further Data on Artificial Pneumothorax in Experimental Lobar Pneumonia" to Philadelphia's Charles Harrison Frazier's "The Modern Treatment of Surgical Shock." These papers will keep the A. M. A.'s Journal in ample copy for six months or more...