Word: peru
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...years ago the Colombian Navy splashed into the news by racing 5,000 mi. around South America and up the Amazon River to the scene of a potential war with Peru. Peru has a sad navy: two old cruisers, three destroyers, four submarines. Colombia has one even sadder: six little gunboats, the biggest under 700 tons, and some coast guard patrol boats.* Luckily the League of Nations settled the "war" in Colombia's favor, but the worried Colombians have lately been picking up bargains in second-hand war boats. Thus a U. S. steamer named the Commercial Traveler...
Canada and Peru saw two Secretaries of State before they rose to office-Cardinals Merry del Val and Gasparri. In 1823 there arrived in Chile a priest named Giovanni Maria Mastai-Ferretti. who was to become Pope Pius IX ("Pio Noro"). In Buenos Aires wise Catholics will gaze speculatively on the austere features of Cardinal Pacelli, for he will undoubtedly be a man to be reckoned with when the present Pope, now 77, dies and the Princes of the Church gather in the Sistine Chapel to elect a successor...
...into the open. In a few days other arms salesmen had dragged in: Edward of Wales (obstructing Curtiss-Wright sales to South America); Herbert Hoover (as an antidote for H. R. H.); President Rodriguez of Mexico; Admiral Ismael Galindez of Argentina; Juan Leguia, son of the late president of Peru; Brig. General Juan F. Azcarate Pino, military attaché of the Mexican Embassy at Washington; an unnamed Turkish Minister of Marine; Comptroller General Lopez of Bolivia; an unnamed chef de cabinet of Brazil; an assorted handful of Chinese war lords. The inferences of the correspondence was that almost...
...white flag of the League flying in the wilderness meant that Colombia and Peru had stopped fighting over the district of Leticia and were letting a League Commission hold this uncomfortable stake while their white-spatted diplomats haggled out terms of peace in the luxury of Rio de Janeiro. Last week the League flag came down with honor amid a rousing chorus of "Vivas...
Peruvian irregulars raped Leticia from Colombia in the first place (TIME, Feb. 6, 1933. et seq.). The real trouble has been that the Peruvian Government, while not overanxious to keep the ravished province, found the rape excessively popular in Peru and for months did not know how to let Leticia go without shame to Peru's virile Latin "honor." Only the vast tact of President Olaya Herrera of Colombia and General Vasquez Cobo whom he sent to overawe the Peruvians in Leticia, made a settlement without undue bloodshed possible. Swamp fever did most of the killing. Tall, patient President...