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...were about ready to cry. Until last week he was also President of Bolivia. He gained that post in one of the military coups that occur frequently in South American politics: Señor Busch was one of a group of officers who overthrew the Government after the Chaco War against Paraguay. He first supported a semi-Socialist regime, then threw out the semi-Socialists...
...shells for this afternoon's race are very evenly matched but the dope around the boathouse is that Rowe will take the race with Wagner, Dean and Comstock close behind him. Comstock who won last year by outrowing the famed Spike Chaco is a dark horso according to Harvey Love...
...Bolivia went a strip of the western Chaco, the border drawn so that it keeps Paraguay 100 miles away from Bolivia's rich oil fields. Most notable Bolivian gain, however, is a gateway to the sea through the Paraguay River. Ever since the War of the Pacific (1879-1883), in which Chile defeated the combined Peruvian-Bolivian armies, Bolivia has sat in her Andean aerie without a handy water outlet for her tin, silver and oil. Between Bolivia and the Pacific there were 75 miles of none-too-friendly Chile. The final arbitration in 1929 of the Tacna-Arica...
...genesis of the Chaco dispute was a 16th-Century royal grant. Ignorant of New World geography, the Spanish Crown granted conflicting titles to two audiencias (old Spanish territorial divisions). The Latin-American republics formed after winning independence from Spain generally followed the old Crown grants. From 1810 on the Chaco dispute smoldered. Although in 1894 a straight line was arbitrarily drawn to indicate the two borders, the controversy continued and in 1932 it burst into a declared war. No less than 18 attempts at arbitration of the dispute failed. The League of Nations once imposed an arms embargo...
...Gran Chaco (Great Chaco), bestriding the Pilcomayo River before it meets the Paraguay River, is in Argentina as well as Bolivia and Paraguay. El Chaco Boreal (Northern Chaco) is wholly north of the Pilcomayo River, has concerned only Bolivia and Paraguay...