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...surprisingly cleanly officers' mess in the noisome Gran Chaco last week neutral Argentine General Martinez Pita genially introduced the two grim commanders whose armies battled each other savagely for years until the recent truce (TIME, June 24). Silently big Bolivia's tenacious General Enrique Penaranda, who was nearly defeated, gripped hands with small Paraguay's resourceful General Josè Felix Estigarribia who came so near to winning that it is rumored he will get a life pension of 1,500 gold pesos. After an exchange of champagne toasts all present mellowed...
...General Penaranda," said General Estigarribia, "I take advantage of these happy circumstances to declare on behalf of Paraguay that your army, against which we fought for three years, is doubtless one of the best and most courageous in the world...
...General Estigarribia, your words are a profound honor," cried General Penaranda, "and my country's army also acknowledges in your army the highest military virtues. We fought as men do, General Estigarribia...
When they parted General Penaranda was wearing General Estigarribia's pistol. "I carried this weapon with me during the whole campaign, General Penaranda!" the giver explained. "On this day, General Penaranda, there is nothing better than to leave it in your hands as a personal souvenir...
...armies with munitions, but there was a particularly Franco-Prussian cast to the battle of Canada Strongest. Youthful General Estigarribia, Paraguayan Commander-in-Chief, is French-trained, a graduate of the French cavalry school at Saumur and the great military academy of St.-Cyr. Bolivia's General Enrique Penaranda del Castillo is German-trained and served under Bolivia's dismissed Prussian commander. General Hans Kundt...