Word: chiles
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...after his return to Paraguay, war broke out with Bolivia. For three years he kept winning promotions in the Chaco jungles, rose to General and Commander in Chief by handing the superior, German-trained Bolivian Army a thorough pasting. When an armistice commission of tne U. S., Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Uruguay and Peru broke the deadlock in 1935, José Félix Estigarribia won for Paraguay, on paper, more territory than it had ever held before...
...Francisco of a drunken father, a hysterical mother. At 17, gay, giddy Gertrude eloped with one of her divorced mother's suitors, sulky, jealous, half-Spanish George Atherton, who had Spanish ideas on the subjugation of women. When he died in 1887 and was shipped home from Chile in a barrel of rum, his young widow had learned little respect for men or for marriage...
...integrity or inviolability of the territory, the sovereignty or the political independence of any American State shall be considered an act of aggression against the States which sign this declaration." Thus the U. S., willy-nilly, as good as pledged military protection to the hemisphere. El Mercurio of Santiago, Chile, enthusiastically called this declaration "the most important and significant agreement ever reached in the American Hemisphere, and perhaps in the world...
...Resolutions urging the completion of a transoceanic railroad from Santos, Brazil, to Arica, Chile (across Bolivia); completion of the Pan-American Highway...
...declaration of sympathy with Chile in breaking off relations with Spain...