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Pedaling serenely home from a 667-mile bicycle trip through Pennsylvania, Delaware and Maryland, Federal Judge George A. Welsh wheeled up to his Lima, Pa. doorstep with news that men had heard before but hope always to hear again: "Whatever may be in store for us, you can count on the people. They will not fail...
...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...
This week, with attendance averaging over 4,000 a week, and the press devoting columns of space to it, the Buenos Aires show drew to a close. It moves next to Montevideo, then to Rio. The Mexico City exhibition goes next to Santiago, Lima, Quito; the Bogotá show will travel to Caracas and Havana. By year's end Nelson Rockefeller's convoys will have visited ten Latin-American capitals...
American statesmen last week had good reason to curse the Kings of Spain for their cavalier treatment of their dependencies. It was not until 1740 that Philip V determined the boundary between his viceroyalties of Santa Fe and of Lima. This is the line which Ecuador now claims as her southern boundary. Peru, claiming a boundary far to the north and west, bases her case on the fact that when her constitution was proclaimed in 1821 three of the four disputed provinces adhered...
...grown-up battle was raging, with machine guns and artillery backing up the rifle fire, with Peruvian warplanes roaring overhead. Quito said Peruvian bombers had destroyed the military barracks and a church in the Ecuadorian town of Chacras, that frontier forces had attacked at other points on the frontier. Lima claimed that Ecuadorian troops had tried to cross into Peruvian territory, had been driven back. After two days the fighting died down...