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...last week the U. S. continued with Britain and France to be a major exporter of war materials to China, Japan, Colombia, Peru, etc.-Congress having refused President Hoover the authority he has asked to declare arms embargoes...
...COLOMBIA-PERU...
Every few hours last week either the Government of Colombia or the Government of Peru would announce that a skirmish had been fought, a river gunboat bombed or an airplane shot at in the vicinity of Leticia, the remote, malarial jungle town on the upper Amazon ceded by Peru to Colombia in 1922, seized by Peruvian irregulars last September, squabbled over ever since (TIME...
Each stirring announcement was followed by a hot denial from the country supposed to have been injured. Brazil, the big neutral adjacent to Leticia, sent a commission to investigate the only victory that seemed authentic: Colombia's capture from Peru of the town of Tarapaca, 100 mi. north of Leticia. Boasting of this victory, Colombians claimed that "80 Peruvian soldiers fled from Tarapaca into the jungle where they are starving. Every few days a famished Peruvian comes out of the jungle and begs permission to surrender...
...bombarded Corfu. In 1929 the Chinese and Russians saw action in Manchuria. For the last few years Japan has been grappling with China in the same region; while in South America there has been continual friction. At the present moment Bolivia and Paraguay are in opposite trenches, Peru and Colombia began offensive operations, yesterday. All these minor wars, plus the Big Blow of 1914-1918, are well within the twenty years of progress mentioned by President Hoover...