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...first time in 127 years, Colombian troops marched off last week to fight on foreign soil.* At a field Mass under the colonnade of the national Capitol in Bogotá, President Laureano Gomez presented battle colors to the Batalión Colombia, a 1,082-man combat team of volunteers for the war in Korea. Colombia is the 15th nation to send ground troops to Korea, the first Latin American country to join in the fighting...
Commanded by Lieut. Colonel Jaime Polania Puyo, a veteran of 22 years in the Colombian army, the battalion has been training for four months in mountain country around Bogotá to get ready for Korea's rugged terrain. The troops are equipped with U.S. Army uniforms and materiel (paid for with Colombian cash), and have been checked out on North American infantry weapons by twelve Spanish-speaking U.S. Army noncoms...
...positives of our pages, from which local presses could print copies for quick delivery to civilians and to allied forces on nearby fronts. At war's peak, we were printing some 834,000 overseas copies at 19 places for distribution to 180 countries and possessions. Among the 19: Bogotá, Sao Paulo, Mexico City, Buenos Aires, Cairo, Teheran and Sydney. Where transport problems were worst, as in Iceland, Greenland, Alaska, Burma and the Pacific, we sent out pocket-sized "Pony" editions. Smallest of all was the Navy V-Mail Edition...
Died. Archbishop Ismael Perdomo, 78, political-minded Roman Catholic Primate of Colombia; in Bogotá. A conservative on most issues in his nation's fiercely partisan politics, Archbishop Perdomo sternly condemned the political use of violence and fraud, gained the enmity of Conservative Strong Man (now President-elect) Laureano...
Experts wrote essays proving that the bambuco had been the national dance all along. So far as Bogotá was concerned, the rumba, samba and the tango had a new and potent rival...