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...hummocks in a bog are Forts Munoz and Nanawa, 60 mi. apart in the sopping Gran Chaco jungle between Paraguay and Bolivia. Last December the Paraguayans, South America's fiercest fighters, had pushed big Bolivia's lackadaisical army back to the outlying "forts" (huts on mounds) around Munoz. Last week the cloak-&-sword Bolivians, wearing second-hand U. S. uniforms, wielding jungle machetes, took "Fort" Jordan, backed the Paraguayans against Nanawa. their Verdun, a small French-built fort that was the last defense before the Paraguay River and Paraguay's second biggest city, Concepcion...
...territory in dispute is the Chaco. This strip of land is vitally important to Bolivia and the American exporters, for it provides a short cut to the sea. The English, since they own and operate the railroad running over the old, longer passage to the coast, are solidly behind the Paraguayans who are attempting to retain the Chaco. The usual war hysteria has camouflaged this primary issue and added oil to the flames. Horror stories and parades have done their insidious work on the mob mind, until it has seemed to both nations that nothing but national pride and honor...
...delegates representing Paraguay will be Comstock Glaser '35, Just Lunning 1G, S. M. Peyser '34, who will take the Paraguayan side of the Chaco dispute, J. G. Simonds '35, P. H. Singer '34, and W. F. Wolff...
...program will be a meeting of the Council on Economics, headed by Salant, at 8 o'clock Thursday evening, March 9. Simultaneously with this will be meetings of the Permanent Arms Commission and of the Conciliation Commission of American Neutrals, which will discuss the Bolivian-Paraguayan dispute in the Chaco...
...clock the next morning the reports of these committees will be transmitted to the Assembly and after that there will be a discussion of the action to be taken by the League in the Chaco Dispute. Since to the Harvard delegation has been assigned the task of supporting the Paraguayan side of the question, this event will be of vital interest to them. Then, at 10.30 o'clock will come the first formal meeting of the whole Assembly, at which the president and committee chairman will be elected...