Word: amazon
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Protocol terms gave Ecuador 30,000 of a disputed 117,000-square-mile area of the arid mountains and steaming jungleland in the upper watershed of the Amazon River. Ecuador was also given free navigation rights on the Amazon and its tributaries (for potential oil shipments), but grumbled that pressure to sign had been severe. Peru did not grumble. To non-grumbling Peru Franklin Roosevelt sent a message praising "friendly consultation and mutual adjustment." To grumbling Ecuador went praise for "the spirit of cooperation and cordial collaboration...
Experiences of a summer spent travelling through the interior of Peru, voyaging by cance and balsa wood rafts as far as the Amazon basin and visiting the ruins of old Inca villages sacked by Pizzaro, were related yesterday afternoon by Berrien Anderson, Jr. '42 and Manuel I. Prado '42, in the lecture room of the Institute of Geographical Exploration...
Subsequent to this stage of the expedition the party split up, Prado and one friend continuing down the Amazon to the east coast of South America, while Anderson travelled further in Peru exploring the remains of old Inca and pre-Inca villages. The fourth member of the party was incapacitated by a serious foot infection...
...speakers are students of the Institute who last summer descended the Perene, the Urubamba, and other rivers in the little-known eastern Andes, and beyond in the Amazon lowlands. They hunted, collected animals, and had many interesting incidents. Prado took part in the war with Ecuador and will tell of his experience...
They also have built up stocks of aviation gasoline and oil at hideouts up the Amazon River and at points on Brazil's eastern coast line...