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Stimson et aL Efforts by neutral statesmen of all sorts to end the Leticia trouble have been ceaseless since it began. Diplomatic notes have piled up in bales at Lima and Bogota. Last week U. S. Secretary of State Stimson rapped Peru over the knuckles with a 2,600-word note, sternly pointing out that even Peru admits the validity of the Saloman-Lozano Treaty and that should Peru use force to hold Leticia she would clearly violate her pledge under the Briand-Kellogg Pact...
Next day the Council of the League of Nations sent to Lima the sort of cablegram it itches to send to Tokyo but dares not. Peru was commanded by the Council "to refrain from any intervention by force on Colombian territory and . . . not hinder the Colombian authorities from the exercise of full sovereignty and jurisdiction in territory recognized by treaty to belong to Colombia...
...Lima, Peru's Cabinet, after sweating over the Stimson & League notes, justified themselves as follows: "The Peruvian Government is not defending the territory of Leticia but its fellow countrymen who occupy it with a view of securing its return to its former nationality, which is not a crime justifying the use of measures of extermination...
...hours before this statement was issued the Presidents of Peru and Colombia were reported about to "talk things over" by radio telephone between Lima and Bogota, with rumors strong that both countries would agree to mediation by the Government of Brazil...
...appointed Secretary of the Embassy assigned to Mexico City. The following year took the secretary back to Washington to serve as Secretary of the International Conference on Electrical Communication held in 1920. After duty at Warsaw in 1922, Boal was sent to Berne, Switzerland, and to Lima, Peru. In 1929 his appointment was made as Acting Secretary General of the Commission of Inquiry and Conciliation, Bolivia and Paraguay, which sat in Washington. He has been awarded the Lafayette Flying Corps ribbon, the Legion of Order of the Sun (Peru), and Order of St. Sava (Jugoslavia...