Word: asuncion
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...east coast there are the long and well fixed Condor Air Lines and the Campagnie Generate Aeropostale. Condor is German-owned, a subsidiary of the German-subsidized Luft Hansa, strongest aviation concern of Middle Europe if not of all Europe. Condor does a good mail and passenger service between Asuncion, Para guay, Buenos Aires and Para, Brazil. Competing is Aeropostale, French-subsidized. Its main purpose is to rush mail from Buenos Aires to Natal, Brazil, whence fast ships rush the sacks across the Atlantic to Dakar, Senegal, for retransfer to France-bound planes...
...Well, we thought we'd better go round, so we came out again and went south through the Argentine to Asuncion and into Paraguay across the eastern boundary, the Paraguay River. When we got there we told them how there were a lot of Bolivians sitting in forts in the middle of Paraguay, and that vexed them a bit. It was the first they'd heard of it, I guess...
...Bolivian Foreign Office replied that "in view of this insolent attitude" on the part of Paraguay, "you (the Paraguayan Minister) must leave this capital on the train which leaves Viachi Station at four p. m." Within a few hours the Paraguayan Government similarly kicked the Bolivian Minister out of Asuncion with the statement that "in the face of such an attitude" as Bolivia's, there was no choice but "to proceed in the same manner." The diplomatic negotiations were severed before any common sense steps had been taken and probably before the governments themselves really knew exactly what...
Died. Manuel Gondra, twice (1910 & 1920) President of Paraguay, onetime Minister to the U. S.; at Asuncion, Paraguay...
...Eligio Ayala, prominent educator, was born in 1880 and was educated - at the National College and at the University of Asuncion, in which institution he later became a professor. He was elected a deputy in 1909 as a member of the Liberal Party. From 1911 to 1919 he was in Europe, engaged in travel and study. On his return he again became a member of Congress; and in 1920, Minister of Finance...