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...Through the State Department, the President congratulated President Roberto M. Ortiz of Argentina on the signing, in Buenos Aires, of a treaty ending the Chaco boundary squabble between Bolivia and Paraguay...
Three weary years of mediation by representatives of the U. S. and five South American nations last week ended. At Buenos Aires a peace agreement was reached, officially closing the 1932-35 war between Paraguav and Bolivia over the steamy, sumpy Gran Chaco region. Within the red stone walls of the Argentine Government's Casa Rosada, the Foreign Ministers of Paraguay and Bolivia advanced to a huge oval table, formally scratched their signatures to a peace treaty. "Peace between the Republics of Paraguay and Bolivia is re-established," read Article...
...from the League of Nations, last week sent word to Geneva that it was also resigning membership in the Permanent Court of International Justice, located at The Hague. No official explanation was attached but Paraguay's plain purpose was to prevent Bolivia from hauling the still-unsettled Gran Chaco dispute before that tribunal. Both nations signed an optional clause in the World Court protocol and statutes which provided that if one nation wished to bring a case into court, the other signatory nation involved was bound to submit to its jurisdiction. Bolivia is still a member of The Hague...
Three years ago an armistice halted the war between Bolivia and Paraguay over the Gran Chaco, a dank jungle region sandwiched between the two nations, over which they have been squabbling for a century. Almost constant negotiations by neutral powers since the armistice have brought the dispute no nearer settlement. Fortnight ago the Chaco Peace Conference in Buenos Aires, composed of representatives of the U. S., Brazil, Argentina, Peru, Chile and Uruguay, offered a solution which would have given landlocked Bolivia a port on the Paraguay river, and thus an outlet to the sea, Bolivia's main interest...
With the dispute between Bolivia and Paraguay over the steamy Gran Chaco region still unsettled after three years' armistice, another long-disputed area last week loomed as a second Chaco. For almost 400 years the peoples of Ecuador and Peru have been squabbling over the Oriente, a dank, roadless, city-less jungle, which lies east of the Pacific Andes, and sprawls between the two little nations. The territory, about the size of New York, is now divided by a temporary demarcation line, pending final settlement under U. S. direction...