Word: colombian
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...League commission will have its own private army, composed of "internationalized" Colombian soldiers to enforce its bidding...
Still hoping to mediate between Colombia and Peru, zealous Brazilian Foreign Minister Afranio de Mello Franco labored day & night in Rio de Janeiro to keep war from breaking out at Leticia. Striding out of Minister de Mello Franco's office after a half-hour conference, Colombian Minister Dr. Carlos Uribe Echeverri was asked how much longer Colombia's fleet would wait before striking to recover Leticia...
Three days earlier in Bogota, Colombia's capital, President & Senora Enrique Olaya Herrera had called at the Bank of the Republic to have their thick gold wedding rings cut from their fingers. Thousands of other Colombian spouses with big finger joints made the same sacrifice. Brides & grooms slipped off their rings, flung them into the Treasury's "Defense Chest...
...Chest." Because Leticia is part of Colombia by treaty right, the sending of Colombian warships, troops and battle planes to recover it is not regarded in Colombia as even remotely an act of war. Many Colombians are convinced that a certain "Mr. Vigil" who owned a property near Leticia called "La Victoria" caused all the trouble by threatening the Colombian Government that unless it bought his property for some $80,000 he would incite Peruvians to seize Leticia. Colombians further believe that their Government refused to be blackmailed, that Mr. Vigil made good his threat. With ease the Colombian Treasury...
Next day the Council of the League of Nations sent to Lima the sort of cablegram it itches to send to Tokyo but dares not. Peru was commanded by the Council "to refrain from any intervention by force on Colombian territory and . . . not hinder the Colombian authorities from the exercise of full sovereignty and jurisdiction in territory recognized by treaty to belong to Colombia...