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...French general, a British general, an Italian count, a Mexican major and a suave Spanish diplomat named Don Julio Alvarez del Vayo stopped the war between Bolivia and Paraguay (see p. 15) but nearly all their kudos was stolen last week by Montevideo's well-publicized Seventh Pan-American Conference (TIME...
...headline reader throughout the world jumped to the conclusion that the Conference had "settled" the conflict. Facts are that a long-suffering League of Nations Commission has been wallowing about in the swamps between Bolivia and Paraguay. Its members, the major, the two generals, the count and Spanish Chairman Alvarez del Vayo began by conferring in Asuncion with Paraguayan President Eusebio Ayala, a onetime professor of philosophy. They wallowed across the Chaco battlefield and were in La Paz when harassed President Daniel Salamanca of Bolivia received the awful news that his main army had been wiped out by the Paraguayans...
...grow angry with Los Ninos ("The Boys") but the great problem was what The Boys were going to do next. There was no leader; every member of the Directorio Estiidiantil had an equal voice. The nearest approach to leaders seemed to be a wild-eyed pair known as Santiago Alvarez and Ysmael Seijas who handed out Springfields and automatic rifles to other shirt-sleeved students, formed a most irregular militia...
...held by Cinemactor Alexander Kirkland clinging to the keel of an overturned sailboat. With him, without her dress and painfully sunburned, was Actress Ann Harding Bannister with her secretary Marie Lombard. Hysterically they told what had happened and how the boat's skipper, one Majin Alvarez Piedra, had started swimming to shore. Gibbered Miss Harding...
First rebel leader to be featured in dispatches was doughty old Colonel Aurelio Alvarez, veteran of Cuba's War of Independence. Having lost his four sons (killed allegedly by President Machado's secret police) he was reported in the field in Matanzas, heading a well-equipped raiding party...