Word: colombian
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Involved, perhaps fatally embroiled last week were Colombia and Peru, the protagonists proper, with the United States of Brazil an anxious bystander. Because Mother Amazon is so very long (3,900 mi.) solemn treaties long since made her an "international waterway." Under these treaties Colombian war boats have been slowly steaming up the Amazon and across Brazil with as much freedom as though they were on the open sea. Knowing that trouble might result, Brazilians have had to send troopships of their own up the Amazon to preserve "armed neutrality." Finally from Iquitos, high up Mother Amazon in Peru, gunboats...
Early last September, filibustering Peruvians staged a private raid, seized Leticia. expelled the town's Colombian officials and called on all Peru to applaud their deed. Most of Peru applauded. The surge of patriotism was too strong to be resisted by President Luiz M. Sanchez Cerro of Peru, into whose tough little body would-be assassins have all too often fired bullets (TIME, March 14). By the end of last September both Colombia and Peru were mobilizing men, money and munitions. In Bridgeport, Conn, on Sept. 30, close-lipped Saunders Norvell, president of Remington Arms Co., exuberantly exclaimed...
...Colombian Legation gave sanctuary to Elisio Arguelles' sons Elisio Jr. and Fernando, and to Julio Rabell, nephew of Judge Pedro Rabell...
...Bogota last week the Senate of Colombia voted $10,000,000 for "national defense" (against Peru) and 10,000 Bogotans patriotically paraded?this despite the fact that Peru's government has apologized for the "Leticia Incident" of Sept. 1 when Peruvian hotheads seized Leticia, Colombian port...
...minded President Dr. Enrique Olaya Herrera surprised his countrymen by issuing without warning last week two decrees: the first prohibits from July 1 "the sale of alcoholic beverages, except beer, between 6 p.m. and 6 a.m. and on Sundays and holidays;" the second strikes directly at the old Colombian custom of gun-toting, drastically restricts imports of firearms, stiffens the requirements for licenses to carry them...