Word: ecuador
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...bass voice, announced to stomping, cheering crowds that Brazil, largest and strategically the most important of the South American countries had ". . . at 6 o'clock today broken her diplomatic and commercial relations with Germany, Italy and Japan." After settlement of the old boundary dispute with Peru Ecuador followed suit...
...Janeiro Conference of American foreign ministers officially adjourned last week with ringing denunciations of Axis aggression, loud vivas for American unity. But late the night of adjournment the Peru-Ecuador border question, which had never been on the agenda but had delayed the conference windup for 24 hours (and made all unity speeches sound slightly hypocritical), was still being threshed out. Not until 2 the next morning did Brazilian Foreign Minister Oswaldo Aranha, making his final attempt to please everyone, order up punch, beer, assorted fruit juices and highballs for the five key diplomats who had argued, orated, threatened, compromised...
...Conference drew to a close this week passports were being handed to departing diplomats all over the Americas. Acting individually, instead of collectively, all 21 nations except Ecuador, Brazil, Chile and Argentina had severed diplomatic ties with the Axis. Ecuador, still worrying about its border dispute with Peru, and Brazil, still trying to have the ABC powers as well as the hemisphere act in concert, were ready for similar action. Chile was reported swinging into line at last. The dream of Pan American solidarity was still on its way to truth...
...speakers are students of the Institute who last summer descended the Perene, the Urubamba, and other rivers in the little-known eastern Andes, and beyond in the Amazon lowlands. They hunted, collected animals, and had many interesting incidents. Prado took part in the war with Ecuador and will tell of his experience...
...Ecuador bounced Gestapoman Walter Guisse, announced German Archeologist Franz Spillman was a spy who had taken refuge with the Peruvian Army...