Word: amazon
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...South American States were beggaring their treasuries last week to fling fleets of battle planes, flotillas of war craft and whole armies of eager young troops upon Leticia, a humid jungle town just under the Equator and 2,500 mi. up the world's biggest river, turgid Mother Amazon who oozes along about as fast as most women walk...
Involved, perhaps fatally embroiled last week were Colombia and Peru, the protagonists proper, with the United States of Brazil an anxious bystander. Because Mother Amazon is so very long (3,900 mi.) solemn treaties long since made her an "international waterway." Under these treaties Colombian war boats have been slowly steaming up the Amazon and across Brazil with as much freedom as though they were on the open sea. Knowing that trouble might result, Brazilians have had to send troopships of their own up the Amazon to preserve "armed neutrality." Finally from Iquitos, high up Mother Amazon in Peru, gunboats...
...Saloman-Lozano Treaty of 1922, Peru ceded to Colombia a "Corridor to the Amazon" at the tip of which is Leticia...
...Preparations for an offensive war were initiated by Colombia, and the advance of her flotilla on the Amazon constitutes the beginning of an aggression which we cannot regard with equanimity...
...Bolivian Army. In New York last week on his way to La Paz, General Kundt did not deny that he has been recalled to assume charge of the Bolivian army, parried questions by talking about a scheme to settle German, Austrian and Polish emigrants in the Upper Amazon...