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Last month Good Neighborliness supposedly prevailed all over the Western Hemisphere. Peru and Ecuador had theoretically declared a truce, were waiting for mediation of their ancient border dispute (TIME, Aug. 4) by Argentina, Brazil, the U. S. No newsmen were around to keep tabs on the truce. Not until last week did word get through that Peru had been improving the "truce" by going after Ecuador like a next-door bully all the time...
...Ecuador, a natural victim, has few planes, no tanks or heavy artillery, one small warship, little ammunition, or money with which to buy it. The Ecuadorians are angry with the U. S. for not lease -lending them arms...
...answer is to line up the animal wagons in the parade of international politics. Zoomen plan to send aggressive collectors to Colombia, Ecuador and Venezuela, fight for ark space on banana-boat decks, show zoogoers the fauna of their Good Neighbors. Jennings is hoping that British Empire good will will bring in rare koalas from Australia, wingless kiwi birds from New Zealand (both are now legally barred from export...
...quite so conclusive was the evidence that Nazi propaganda had touched off the inflammable question of the Peru-Ecuador boundary.* But to U.S. newsmen in Lima, Peruvian authorities said frankly that they were less worried about the war than they were about the way German propagandists would distort any U.S. offer to arbitrate. To Argentina the belligerents finally sent their promise to arbitrate...
...Oddest story of the brief war came from Ecuador authorities, who charged that Peru had 3,000 Japanese soldiers in its front lines. It had been rumored earlier that Japan had offered Peru the use of 5,000 trained Japanese reservists for an attack on Ecuador. Said Peru: the report was ''laughable, ridiculous and contemptible." But any sons, born in Peru, of the numerous Japanese residents there would be liable for service with the Peruvian Army...