Word: paz
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Paz, Bolivia, Flyer LeBrix could constrain himself no longer. It was at the French minister's reception to them, and before that formal throng he loudly complained that his companion was making himself the hero of the flight. The Latins there were vexed with his apparent unmannerliness...
...Today our Junkers flyers are instructors of the Bolivians. Junkers airplanes are flying over primeval forests and are a most effective instrument of combat due to a lack of roads. German business men and technicians are as welcome in Bolivia as German teachers. The German school founded in La Paz in 1924, now numbers 300 students. Just because Germans had such an active part in the growth of Bolivia we may wish Bolivia a speedy peaceful consolidation of her boundaries...
From the first the Paraguayans have contended that it was their troops who were attacked by Bolivians; and the Paraguay chargé d' affaires at La Paz, Bolivia, immediately suggested neutral investigation of whatever had occurred in Gran Chaco. The reply of the Bolivian government was to break off relations with Paraguay last fortnight, and to send more Bolivian soldiers last week into Gran Chaco, where at least 200 humans met death in circumstances impossible to ascertain...
President Hernando Siles of Bolivia was sorry not to be able to join the goodwill party. He was occupied at La Paz by an impending war with Paraguay (see page...
While the above monkey wrench was being thrown into the machinery of poly-national conciliation, the diplomats were even busier achieving a direct break between Bolivia and Paraguay. At the Bolivian seat of Government, La Paz, the Paraguayan Charge d'Affaires, Senor Elias Ayala, presented a request that there be no "repetition of the violation of Paraguayan territory by a Bolivian force." Thereupon the Bolivian Foreign Office replied that "in view of this insolent attitude" on the part of Paraguay, "you (the Paraguayan Minister) must leave this capital on the train which leaves Viachi Station at four...