Word: bolivian
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...months ago the first clash occurred. Last week Bolivian forces, sweating through the jungle, attacked and captured a fortified Paraguayan hut proudly known as Fort Boqueron. Little Paraguay has a regular army of only 3,000 men, but no bantams crowed more fiercely than the pugnacious Paraguayans last week. Pudgy, pop-eyed President Jose P. Guggiari sent a strong protest to the League of Nations against Bolivian aggression, then mobilized the army and published a clarion to his people...
...President-elect Eusebim Ayala of Paraguay did his best to avoid war with Bolivia in the disputed region of Gran Chaco where sniping between Paraguayan and Bolivian outposts goes on year after year (TIME...
...Passionate President Daniel Salamanca of Bolivia whooped for war with Paraguay, declared martial law, aroused Bolivian patriots to pledge more than $200,000 for the conduct of the war, said in one of his milder moments, "It seems to me that the moment is not yet opportune for bringing the Bolivian people to serene and favorable reflection looking towards a pacific understanding with Paraguay...
That conditions in the Gran Chaco have provided an excuse for war these many years, everyone knows, incidents of provocation on both sides being numberless. Specifically the Bolivian Government alleged last week that on June 29 and on July 15 some Paraguayans shot & killed some Bolivians in the disputed territory...
...Bolivia. The land was poor. The natives were unfriendly. Nostalgia plagued all. Within a short time every colonist except Bill Murray and his half-Indian squaw had returned despondently to the U. S. They alone stuck it out for five wretched years, fighting insect pests, drought, shifty Bolivian officials. Finally in 1929 Bill returned to the U. S. practically penniless to complete the most remarkable political career in Oklahoma's history...