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Scrappiest of nations, Bolivia and Paraguay promptly resumed their savage jungle war for possession of the swampy Gran Chaco one midnight last week, on the expiration of their recent armistice (TIME...
Wars in Central and South America are usually comic opera affairs. Despite bloody tales coming from the Chaco region the struggle there between Paraguay and Bolivia probably falls into this category, for the list of casualties is unimposing and both sides seem quite willing for the battle to go on indefinitely. After a short truce which was agreed to only after considerable urging by the assembled American diplomats the war was resumed when a Commission from the League of Nations failed to do anything save distinguish itself by its peculiarly inept handling of the matter...
...Grand Chaco is in itself a completely worthless piece of territory, comprising jungles and waste land for the most part. Unfortunately for Paraguay it borders on the Paraguay River. Hence, if Bolivia could gain control of it she would have a much coveted outlet to the sea, the lack of which has been keenly felt by that country since Chile closed the Pacific to her. Paraguay naturally is none too eager to see such an extension of Bolivian power in her back yard. The result is the present interminable struggle, in which Paraguay has so far been victorious, having almost...
...probability neither Paraguay nor Bolivia think that the Chaco is worth the battle that is being waged for it. The reason for its continuance is to be found, I think, in the vague rumors that seep out of both countries about popular discontent with the governments. Obviously, if the rabble are occupied in the jingoistic activities that accompany a war, their rulers will feel relatively safe. Consequently, the Chaco is an ideal place to wage such a war, for defeat and loss of such a God-forsaken region can have no very serious results for either country...
With a last ripple of rifle fire, a last salvo of cannon and a mighty mingling of Indian war whoops and LaL., cheers, the soldiers of Bolivia and Paraguay stopped fighting in the swampy jungles of the Gran Chaco last week. Suddenly the chatter of tropical birds again seemed loud. Just before the eleven-day "Christmas Truce" was arranged by League of Nations statesmen (see p. 11 )-last year's Chaco "Christmas Truce" was arranged by Pope Pius XI-battling Paraguay pressed her recent supreme offensive to capture Bolivia's Fort Munoz. Whether Munoz. was captured just before...