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Died. Miguel Cruchaga Tocornal, 80, onetime Chilean Ambassador to the U.S. (1926-27, 1931-32) and Foreign Minister (1932-37); after long illness; in Santiago, Chile. Cruchaga earned the nickname "Don Palomo" (Mr. Dove) for his peace efforts (he helped settle the Chaco War in 1935, arranged the resumption of diplomatic relations between Mexico and the Vatican after the religious persecutions of the late...
...many another had been told to stay out of Asuncion for a while. But the really dangerous enemies of the regime had long ago gone underground, or been sent to Asuncion's red-walled prison or to the isolation of the Pena Hermosa concentration camp in the steaming Chaco...
Weak Flanks. A German Army officer in World War I and a fighter versed in military strategy, Alberto Goldschmidt went to South America in 1934 to advise the Bolivian Government in the Chaco war. When war's end stranded him in Santiago, he stayed on to work for La Hora...
...Chaco garrisons, which had the best arms, had gone over to the rebels, whose forces dominated Concepcion. So had four training planes and two hydroplanes, which constituted the bulk of the air force...
Colonel Federico Smith, son of an English trader and a hero of the Chaco War, had taken over as Commander in Chief of the Government forces. He promised "peace at a small cost in blood and money...