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...Bill McGovern's learning. He wrote a book on Japanese grammar, speaks twelve languages, is said to know more about John Galsworthy than the university's English department. Once University of Michigan's famed Pundit Jesse Siddall Reeves, fresh from a survey of the South American Chaco affair, went to lunch in Evanston's University Club, was soon questioning Bill McGovern for further in formation. Bill McGovern is now busy teaching Chinese to his four-year-old son. A friend gave him a bottle of Napoleon brandy, to be opened when the boy could read...
...cause of this new revolution was a peace conference. The still-simmering dispute between Bolivia and Paraguay over the muggy Gran Chaco region has been in the hands of a conference, meeting intermittently in Buenos Aires since the war ended. Unfortunately for President Franco, he allowed the conferees to persuade him to order his troops back from the front-line positions where they have squatted for two years. Army officers, bitterly resentful that Franco was throwing away their bloody-won victory, carried out their coup, then gave him first a chance to change his mind, and finally the boot...
Although the U. S. and its big South American neighbors prevailed upon Bolivia and Paraguay to stop fighting in the Gran Chaco two years ago, the Chaco Peace Conference, meeting intermittently in Buenos Aires ever since, has yet to produce a permanent peace pact. Prime difficulty lies in the fact that the skeleton Bolivian and Paraguayan armies (limited to 5,000 men apiece) have each moved back only a few miles from the positions they held at the time of the armistice, when Paraguay had pushed into 50,000 sq. mi. of the Chaco. This has seemed as natural...
...Paraguay again began spitting at each other like a pair of jaguars. Under strong pressure from the Conference, Colonel Franco had agreed to accept the five-month-old recommendation of a neutral military commission that Paraguay move its troops back off a 50-mile road connecting Bolivia's Chaco headquarters with her rich Santa Cruz de la Sierra agricultural district. To soften the blow of this news at home, his Foreign Minister Juan Stefanich delivered a three-hour harangue at Asuncion explaining that Paraguay would have "free transit" over the road. Shrieking that this was a lie, the Bolivian...
...flareback to the Gran Chaco war was the jailing last week at La Paz under 80,000,000 bolivianos bail ($6,400,000) of British Munitions Suppliers Anthony Ashton and John W. Webster on charges of having bilked Bolivia...