Word: bolivian
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Tschiffely's civilized Argentine sensibilities were often revolted by what he saw in more backward South American countries. He disliked the way Bolivian Indians crawled up to white men on their knees, kissed their feet. In Bolivia he was an unwilling witness of the rape of a 13-year-old Indian girl. In Chiapas, Mexico, he saw a boy of 18 shot in cold blood by an officer, left to die in the street. Prudent Traveler Tschiffely, his eye on his goal, knew it was useless to interfere in such cases...
...Model League's program will be a meeting of the Council on Economics, headed by Salant, at 8 o'clock Thursday evening, March 9. Simultaneously with this will be meetings of the Permanent Arms Commission and of the Conciliation Commission of American Neutrals, which will discuss the Bolivian-Paraguayan dispute in the Chaco...
...United States is evidently aiding Bolivia!" stormed excited Paraguayans. Soon, however, in La Paz an unofficial Bolivian spokesman made the real facts known...
...uniforms were bought second hand from the U. S. Government," said he. "They were bought so cheap that the U. S. Government could not afford to cut off the buttons. "It was agreed that the Bolivian Government should cut them off. Someone may have forgotten...
...battlefield last week. Open-mouthed Bolivianos in their steaming trenches told each other that it was El Aleman, the German-there is only one German to the army of Bolivia. Immediately thereafter La Paz reported that General Kundt had personally inspected every section of the Gran Chaco front. Bolivian troops had their first definite success in months, recaptured Forts Bolivar and Jayucubas from hard-fighting Paraguayans...