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Canada Strongest has nothing whatever to do with a British Dominion or ginger ale. A canada is a Spanish dingle. Canada Strongest is a narrow valley named for a Bolivian soccer team, about 15 mi. northeast of Fort Ballivian in the Gran Chaco. There last week nearly 100,000 men of the armies of Bolivia and Paraguay were concentrated for what each hoped would be the deciding battle of their...
Washington, Not without the secret approval of the Roosevelt Administration was the buck so neatly passed to the U. S. President Hoover had earnestly tried to halt the shipment of arms to the Chaco. Then in April 1933 the House had passed an Administration resolution authorizing the President to impose an arms embargo on any aggressor nation anywhere in the world. When the resolution reached the Senate broad-beamed Hiram Johnson had it amended to apply to both sides in a fight, on the theory that a one-sided embargo would be more likely to draw the U. S. into...
...hand was the elaborate report of a special League Commission which, after weeks of slogging through the steamy jungle of the Gran Chaco, had dismally failed to settle the two-year-old war between Paraguay and Bolivia. To the outside world that failure had been just one more body blow to the League's reputation as a peacemaker. Not since it was founded was the League's prestige at a lower ebb. Japan and Germany had thumbed their noses, given notice of withdrawal. The Disarmament Conference was dead before it reassembled. Something had to be done. Captain Eden...
Blowoff. All this world activity in the name of peace was not lost on the fighters in the Chaco. If two years of bloody combat that has already cost nearly 45,000 lives was to end for lack of fighting material generals on both sides decided that they could have one last glorious blowoff. That last week they...
With the imprisonment of the captors, the Gettle story was the first to sag. Not so the case of June Robles, who all over the U. S. continued to hold a commanding position in the news with the Nantucket lightship disaster, the Chaco War, the drought, the Pennsylvania primary...