Word: argentina
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...week no nation had formally declared war since the League of Nations was founded. Paraguay, which has been fighting Bolivia in the steaming sponge of the Gran Chaco jungle for eleven months, took the brash step. A few hours after Bolivia had formally rejected the peace overtures of neighboring Argentina, Brazil, Chile and Peru, pudgy President Eirebio Ayala of Paraguay issued a proclamation...
That sentence revealed Paraguay's strategy. It forced Argentina, Brazil, Chile and Peru to declare neutrality, thus cutting off landlocked Bolivia from importing munitions. Paraguay on the broad Parana River, which like the Amazon is an international waterway, can bring supplies straight up from...
...same day that the Crop Reporting Board tossed its statistic to the public the big four in world wheat (U. S., Canada, Argentina, Australia) met by proxy under the tent of the League of Nations at Geneva. Theirs was not the task of interpreting past short crops (which have been notably lacking) but of trying to bring about more short crops in the future. Two years ago they met on a similar mission in London, went home empty handed because the U. S. declared it could do nothing about restricting production...
...socialite lawyer, to be Ambassador to Belgium-; Sam Gilbert Bratton, Senator from New Mexico, to be a U. S. Circuit Judge after adjournment of Congress; Oscar L. Chapman, Colorado lawyer, to be Assistant Secretary of the Interior; Alexander Wilbourne Weddell of Virginia, former career diplomat, to be Ambassador to Argentina. ¶ Few reports have excited Washington so much as last week's to the effect that President Roosevelt might attend the London Economic Conference next month. The White House secretariat pooh-poohed the story, and the President discouraged it by reciting his summer plans to the Press: He would...
President Roosevelt pushed his conversations on the World Economic Conference into new ground last week. Argentina, Italy and Germany had their White House innings. Dr. Tomas A. Le Breton, Argentine Ambassador to France, crossed the Atlantic to talk trade agreements with the President. For Guido Jung. Italian Minister of Finance whom Premier Mussolini had dispatched to Washington as his personal representative, President Roosevelt gave a large State dinner-but without Signor Jung who had been fog-bound in New York harbor. Dr. Hjalmar Schacht came as Adolf Hitler's special envoy. When Victor Ridder, one of the publishers...