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...plan of campaign was carefully worked out for all the Spanish fronts in the next few weeks. As an extra dividend Italy threw in one more general, Alfredo Guzzoni, no Fascist militiaman but a regular officer of long service and proven ability...
...blow of this news at home, his Foreign Minister Juan Stefanich delivered a three-hour harangue at Asuncion explaining that Paraguay would have "free transit" over the road. Shrieking that this was a lie, the Bolivian Cabinet angrily voted not to name a minister to Asuncion. This passage threw the Paraguayan Army into such a frenzy that they refused to obey Provisional President Franco's order to retreat from the disputed road, threatened a general revolt unless he withdrew the order. With Colonel Franco's fall expected hourly, the Army began to rally behind rabidly anti-Bolivian General...
Brazil's Vargas had more to comfort him last week than the prospect of a rest. Big, swashbuckling Governor Flores da Cunha of his home state of Rio Grande do Sul, who rebelliously threw his support to Candidate Salles de Oliveira to keep his onetime friend Vargas from succeeding himself, was left stranded absurdly without an issue. Hemmed in by a solid wall of Federal troops suspiciously watching for any trouble he might start with his 30,000 militiamen, Governor Flores da Cunha received without enthusiasm the news that Candidate Salles de Oliveira was about to charter a steamship...
...Colwell during the past two weeks has had increasing difficulty in returning the ball to the pitcher. In the Holy Cross game, he threw wide of the mound five times in succession, but was unerring in throws to the bases...
...Yale did not place in this event makes Haydock definitely a member of the Oxford Cambridge team. John Herrick in the discus turned in almost the poorest distance he has done this spring. His best was a little over 141 ft. while against Yale a week ago he threw...