Word: peru
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Involved, perhaps fatally embroiled last week were Colombia and Peru, the protagonists proper, with the United States of Brazil an anxious bystander. Because Mother Amazon is so very long (3,900 mi.) solemn treaties long since made her an "international waterway." Under these treaties Colombian war boats have been slowly steaming up the Amazon and across Brazil with as much freedom as though they were on the open sea. Knowing that trouble might result, Brazilians have had to send troopships of their own up the Amazon to preserve "armed neutrality." Finally from Iquitos, high up Mother Amazon in Peru, gunboats...
...appointed Secretary of the Embassy assigned to Mexico City. The following year took the secretary back to Washington to serve as Secretary of the International Conference on Electrical Communication held in 1920. After duty at Warsaw in 1922, Boal was sent to Berne, Switzerland, and to Lima, Peru. In 1929 his appointment was made as Acting Secretary General of the Commission of Inquiry and Conciliation, Bolivia and Paraguay, which sat in Washington. He has been awarded the Lafayette Flying Corps ribbon, the Legion of Order of the Sun (Peru), and Order of St. Sava (Jugoslavia...
...Nothing has happened which alters in any essential way the views expressed in my last comprehensive report," said Dr. Millikan stridently. What had happened included: Dr. Millikan's sending electroscopes by airplane to measure cosmic rays over Peru, the U. S., Canada; Dr. Compton's journeying with an electroscope around the Pacific and over North America from Mexico City to north of Churchill on Hudson Bay; two young men killed carrying a cosmic ray scope up Mt. McKinley; Professor Auguste Piccard & aide ballooning into the stratosphere ten miles above Switzerland; Professor Erich Regener sending a free balloon with...
...fort after another. Last week with both sides stalemated at Fort Saavedra, the 20 mi. of neutral ground seemed like a good idea. If fighting must continue. Bolivia's chances were brightened last week when General Hans Kundt, onetime officer of the Kaiser's Imperial Army, reached Peru, returning from exile in Germany and the U. S. reputedly to take command of Bolivia's troops...
...Indies, of sugar in Cuba, of coffee in Brazil, of cocoa in Ecuador, of copper in the Congo, of lead in Burma, of zinc in Australia, of oil in the U. S. . . . new wheatlands in the Argentine, new cotton lands in Egypt . . . revolutions in Spain, Portugal, Brazil, the Argentine, Peru, Ecuador, Siam . . . repudiation of debts.. . . Declared President Hoover: "The United States did not bring this calamity on the world. . . . any party which exhibits such a lack of understanding should not be trusted with the fate of 25,000,000 American families...