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Pacifists were hopeful, since in the Gondra Convention of May, 3, 1923, signed between Bolivia and Paraguay, there was contained a procedure of conciliation designed to prevent war between them. There was actually in existence at the neutral capital of Montevideo, Uruguay, last week a conciliation commission as provided in the Gondra Convention, presided over by the Mexican Minister to Uruguay, Senor Fortunato Vega. Nonetheless, the position of the Bolivian Government as expounded by the newspaper El Norte was: "The sovereign Congress of Bolivia has never approved the Gondra Convention; and even if it had the convention tends to prevent...
Soon the Government of Bolivia officially stated that this was a dispute which could not possibly be submitted to the "improvised commission" at neutral Montevideo, headed by the Mexican Minister...
Uruguay. The smallest South American country is among the most bounteous, salubrious and progressive. Perhaps no other land is so well watered and ideally suited to sheep and cattle raising. Prosperity is focused upon a relatively few rich ranchers, and they in turn concentrate their whole wealth in Montevideo...
...opera, the society and the culture of this gracious city are of first rank. The great University of Montevideo need not yield in scholarship to any other in the Americas. If athletic prowess be insisted on, proud Uruguayans know that they have just won the World's Soccer Championship at the Olympic Games in Amsterdam (TIME...
...days out, the complete Hoover itinerary was announced (see Map, p. 18) -Amapala (Honduras), La Union (Salvador), Corinto (Nicaragua), Puntarenas (Costa Rica), Guayaquil (Ecuador), Callao and Lima (Peru), Valparaiso, Santiago and Los Andes (Chile), Mendoza and Buenos Aires (Argentina), Montevideo (Uraguay), Rio de Janeiro (Brazil), Havana, perhaps Mexico, perhaps Texas, to Florida...