Word: colombia
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...white flag of the League flying in the wilderness meant that Colombia and Peru had stopped fighting over the district of Leticia and were letting a League Commission hold this uncomfortable stake while their white-spatted diplomats haggled out terms of peace in the luxury of Rio de Janeiro. Last week the League flag came down with honor amid a rousing chorus of "Vivas...
...Walter Runciman of the British Board of Trade announced that between November 1933 and March 1934, Bolivia had bought 101 machine guns, 85 wheels for mountain artillery, various other odds & ends. Paraguay bought 5,000,000 rifle cartridges. Peru, which last week agreed to drop its impending war with Colombia over the Leticia territory (TIME, Feb. 6, 1933-et seq.) had laid in 1,200 three-inch shells, eight rangefinders and a few cases of machine gun cartridges. Further to impress his adversary Yahya the Imam of Yemen. King Ibn Saud of Saudi Arabia had just put in an order...
...news of the sole survivor of another SCADTA crash in Colombia's jungles, see Green Hell under Aeronautics...
Back to Manhattan last week steamed the biggest boatload of doctors ever to put to sea. There were 375 of them, mostly with wives, and they were returning from 16 days of talking shop, seeing the sights and spreading goodwill in Cuba, Panama, Colombia, Venezuela and Puerto Rico. Members of the Pan American Medical Association, they had chartered the Panama-Pacific liner S. S. Pennsylvania, turned their Fifth Scientific Congress into a junket...
While a League of Nations commission continued to sit on the Colombia-Peru dispute over Leticia, Colombian citizens last week elected a new President without any difficulty; Alfonso Lopez, Liberal leader and Leticia expert. His only opponent was a Communist Indian farmer named Estiquio Timote...