Word: bolivian
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...year-old squabble between Bolivia and Paraguay over the Gran Chaco must end some day. Last week it looked as if Paraguay, with one-third the population, one-eighth the area and one-twelfth the wealth of big Bolivia, had a chance to win. A combination of dumb Bolivian politics and smart Paraguayan tactics had lured Bolivia into making a terrible mistake...
...times this year General José Felix Estigarribia's little brown troopers tried to carry the Bolivian "Verdun," Fort Ballivian, by assault. Six times they failed. Last July Estigarribia moved ostentatiously away to the north and made a great display of advancing on that front. At that point Bolivia blundered...
...material: news of the great Paraguayan victories on the northern front. Since he had assured his countrymen again & again that Fort Ballivian was "impregnable," he ordered his generals to take most of their troops out of Ballivian and run a rousing counteroffensive in the north. In a blaze of Bolivian victories last month, Salamanca's candidate for President, Franz Tamayo, was elected...
Asuncion, Paraguay, Nov. 19--A bold plan for "an invasion into Bolivian territory" was formulated by the Paraguayan high command tonight, elated by victory in the Gran Chaco border...
Buenos Aires, Nov 14-Bolivian troops swept forward today, rolling back the Paraguayan line and regaining territory occupied in the last enemy advance, including Fort Buey Long, renamed after the Louisiana "King-fish...