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Carefully it was arranged that, although Bolivia and Paraguay would lay their troubles before the Conference, they should do so at the suggestion of the Council. Bolivian Foreign Minister Tomas Manuel Elio was induced to cable to M. Briand...
...have the honor to inform Your Excellency that in accord with the lofty suggestion from the League Council that the Bolivian Government has accepted the good offices offered by the Conference for Conciliation and Arbitration meeting in Washington...
When the President learned that-although war had not been declared-Bolivian soldiers had captured Paraguayan Fort Boqueron, he cried from a balcony of the presidential palace, "in taking the fort our soldiers gave a splendid example of Bolivian patriotism. Viva the army; viva the commander of our forces in the Chaco; viva Bolivia...
...highly technical position taken by the Bolivian foreign office is that the HONOR OF BOLIVIA demands that Paraguayan blood be spilled, because Paraguayan TROOPS ATTACKED BOLIVIANS (TIME, Dec. 17) in the disputed area of Gran Chaco, a wild and wooded region of over 100,000 square miles...
From the first the Paraguayans have contended that it was their troops who were attacked by Bolivians; and the Paraguay chargé d' affaires at La Paz, Bolivia, immediately suggested neutral investigation of whatever had occurred in Gran Chaco. The reply of the Bolivian government was to break off relations with Paraguay last fortnight, and to send more Bolivian soldiers last week into Gran Chaco, where at least 200 humans met death in circumstances impossible to ascertain...