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Cartographers last week were busy inking the last boundary on the map of South America. The Rio de Janeiro Conference had accomplished what 113 years of fighting and attempted arbitration had not-a settlement of the old border dispute between Ecuador and Peru...
With full ceremony, mediators from Argentina, Brazil, Chile and the U.S. took over control of El Oro Province on the coast, which had been in Peruvian hands since last summer's fighting (TIME, Sept. 1), and turned it over to representatives of Ecuador...
...picture-taking led him into really serious trouble in Ecuador when he asked to take pictures of the Nazi Consul in the capitol. He was knocked down and severely beaten in a street riot, but was saved by a group of students who wanted their pictures taken...
Senhor Aranha, U.S. Under Secretary of State Sumner Welles, Argentina's Foreign Minister Enrique Ruiz Guiñazú, Chile's Juan Bautista Rossetti, Peru's gaunt-jowled Alfredo Solf y Muro and Ecuador's pink-cheeked Julio Tobar Donoso, each to his own taste, drank up. Still rumpled and tired, the six men filed out to a bronze-studded table in the Itamaraty Palace's Saláo de Baile and before glaring camera lights and sleepy-eyed newsmen signed a protocol which settled-after 113 years of intermittent border warfare-the last major...
Protocol terms gave Ecuador 30,000 of a disputed 117,000-square-mile area of the arid mountains and steaming jungleland in the upper watershed of the Amazon River. Ecuador was also given free navigation rights on the Amazon and its tributaries (for potential oil shipments), but grumbled that pressure to sign had been severe. Peru did not grumble. To non-grumbling Peru Franklin Roosevelt sent a message praising "friendly consultation and mutual adjustment." To grumbling Ecuador went praise for "the spirit of cooperation and cordial collaboration...