Word: chaco
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...years before, Mussolini had marched on Corfu. The three-year-old League had been too timid to rebuke him, so France and Britain had elbowed it aside to push the aggressor out themselves. Paraguay and Bolivia had fought a three-year war over South America's Chaco without interference. And Japan had marched calmly into Manchuria and out of Geneva. "The League," said Delegate Matsuoka then, "has done an awful thing. ... It has attempted to elevate itself to a superstate. Is the world at this stage really prepared to accept...
...founded his diplomatic reputation on his settlement of the Chaco war (1932-35) between Paraguay and Bolivia. After three years of feckless negotiations, Braden took to the radio, bluntly addressed the Paraguayan and Bolivian people over the delegates' heads. A settlement followed quickly...
...million-odd citizens of agricultural Paraguay have taken great pride in their Army. Trained by a French mission, it had thrashed Bolivia (pop. about 3,000,000) in the bloody three-year Chaco war beginning in 1932 had come home to barracks a triumphant fighting force. But by this week some Paraguayans were taking a different view of their soldiers: they were eating the country out of house & home...
...Spiraling Budget. What Minister Plate had to say was that the Army's insistent demands were driving Paraguay's budget clear out of sight; the Army was spending more annually than it had spent during the Chaco war. Under French-trained President José Félix Estigarribia, the Army had been kept in its place, but since Morinigo had taken office (1940), the colonels had got out of hand. Particularly rambunctious was the Chief of Staff, Colonel Bernardo Aranda, who had shown signs of liking the way the colonels did things down in Argentina. This year...
Moreover, he knew South America well. He had gone to Chile for Westinghouse Electric in 1920 and had represented U.S. business or government in South America almost ever since. He was the U.S. representative at the 1935-38 Chaco peace conference, later became U.S. Ambassador to Colombia and Cuba. As Assistant Secretary in charge of Latin American affairs, his booming voice would now be heard everywhere south of the border...