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First there were three years (1932-35) of disastrous warfare over the half-desert, half-swamp of the Chaco. About 100,000 men lost their lives. Then there were three years of patient negotiations at Buenos Aires. Last July Bolivian and Paraguayan representatives signed an agreement submitting to final arbitration by the six Presidents, pledged to act ex aequo et bono-"according to what is right and good." Two weeks later Paraguay's electorate voted ten-to-one to accept any boundary awards made. Bolivia's Constitutional Assembly soon followed suit...
...Paraguay by a plebiscite, in Bolivia by constitutional assembly; 2) within two months of this approval, representatives of the mediating nations must establish the boundary in the Chaco; and 3) Paraguay and Bolivia must accept it. On the last step, however, the Chaco settlement may stumble. Fortnight ago Paraguayan Politician Dr. Geronimo Zubizarreta, so far sole candidate for the September Presidential election, indicated that as President he would toss out any ruling the Chaco mediation arrived at (TIME, July...
...battles. Again & again his rapidly dwindling armies defeated superior forces, the Pyrrhic victories continuing until Paraguay virtually had no men between the ages of 14 and 60. The only stumbling block to peace negotiations was Lopez' refusal to abdicate. To Author Barrett the simple fact that so many Paraguayans perished is proof of their devotion to Lopez. But when readers note that one out of every six men in the Paraguayan army was given the task of shooting waverers, Lopez' victories are likely to seem as unheroic as his love affair and his defeats...
...South American neighbors prevailed upon Bolivia and Paraguay to stop fighting in the Gran Chaco two years ago, the Chaco Peace Conference, meeting intermittently in Buenos Aires ever since, has yet to produce a permanent peace pact. Prime difficulty lies in the fact that the skeleton Bolivian and Paraguayan armies (limited to 5,000 men apiece) have each moved back only a few miles from the positions they held at the time of the armistice, when Paraguay had pushed into 50,000 sq. mi. of the Chaco. This has seemed as natural to Paraguay's Provisional President Colonel Rafael...
Last week, just as the Peace Conference thought it had pushed negotiations to the point of re-establishing Bolivian-Paraguayan diplomatic relations which have been severed since 1932, Bolivia and Paraguay again began spitting at each other like a pair of jaguars. Under strong pressure from the Conference, Colonel Franco had agreed to accept the five-month-old recommendation of a neutral military commission that Paraguay move its troops back off a 50-mile road connecting Bolivia's Chaco headquarters with her rich Santa Cruz de la Sierra agricultural district. To soften the blow of this news at home...