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Rudely rocked in Latin America last week was the tradition that after generals have made war diplomats make peace. Utterly deadlocked, diplomats of Bolivia and Paraguay who have been trying to patch up peace during the Gran Chaco War armistice were served rough notice that they can go home and unbutton their spats by the two gruff commanders who fought each other to a standstill, Paraguay's General José Felix Estigarribia and Bolivia's General Enrique Peñaranda. These two extraordinary militarists, who opened the armistice with a champagne luncheon at which they toasted each other on the battlefield (TIME...
Storm over the Andes (Universal) tells an improbable story about an implausible group of wildcat aviators who help Bolivia win a fictitious war-in-the-air over the Gran Chaco. It inevitably portrays a cocky, ready-fisted individual (Jack Holt) whose general unpleasantness includes the fact that he can fly better than his comrades. When Holt falls in love with an unknown, charming lady (Mona Barrie) at a fiesta, she turns out to be the wife of his commanding officer (Antonio Moreno). Holt saves Moreno from perishing in the jungle after a crash, steals an enemy plane, bombs an ammunition...
...surprisingly cleanly officers' mess in the noisome Gran Chaco last week neutral Argentine General Martinez Pita genially introduced the two grim commanders whose armies battled each other savagely for years until the recent truce (TIME, June 24). Silently big Bolivia's tenacious General Enrique Penaranda, who was nearly defeated, gripped hands with small Paraguay's resourceful General Josè Felix Estigarribia who came so near to winning that it is rumored he will get a life pension of 1,500 gold pesos. After an exchange of champagne toasts all present mellowed...
...Chaco, with an area of 297,938 square kilometers and possessing richness and illimitable possibilities, with a population of more than 100,000 inhabitants, is, today, little known. The most flourishing industrial establishments of the Republic: the great cattle ranches and agricultural colonies; the more than 500 kilometers of railroad bear witness to the civilizing capacity of Paraguay in the Chaco. That the Chaco is not the "green hell" of popular imagination may be easily realized by a consideration of the principal centres of civilization within its borders. Among these...
This list can be considerably extended. At the present time there are more than 2,000,000 head of cattle in the Chaco. Recent statistics indicate that approximately 200,000,000 gold pesos are invested in the Chaco of which about 17,000,000 represent foreign investments. It is affirmed that within the next ten years the Chaco will provide all the wheat necessary for Paraguay and leave a surplus for exportation. The Mennonite colony of 6,000 souls has been established for more than ten years in the Chaco and is one of the most prosperous in the world...