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...formal diplomatic rituals the President took in his stride: he received Ambassador Mehmet Munir Bey of Turkey and credentials; he gave a formal luncheon for Dr. Don Alfonso Lopez, president-elect of Colombia...
...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...
Peruvian irregulars raped Leticia from Colombia in the first place (TIME, Feb. 6, 1933. et seq.). The real trouble has been that the Peruvian Government, while not overanxious to keep the ravished province, found the rape excessively popular in Peru and for months did not know how to let Leticia go without shame to Peru's virile Latin "honor." Only the vast tact of President Olaya Herrera of Colombia and General Vasquez Cobo whom he sent to overawe the Peruvians in Leticia, made a settlement without undue bloodshed possible. Swamp fever did most of the killing. Tall, patient President...
...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...