Word: peru
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Peru v. Colombia? Because Colombia's Congress voted $10,000,000 "for national defense," Peru's Congress hastened to vote $4.200,000 "for national defense" last week, with this ringing declaration...
...Peru is a pacific people! It does not plan to enter war with any other state, but it has to preoccupy itself necessarily about its defense when winds of war blow along the frontier...
...Army Officers seized Leticia (TIME, Sept. 26) contrary to the Peruvian Government's wishes and continued to hold it last week, defying both their own Government and Colombia. "Our coup was made necessary," they announced, "by the harshness of Colombia in Colombianizing the ceded territory." (Leticia was ceded by Peru to Colombia...
...Bogota last week the Senate of Colombia voted $10,000,000 for "national defense" (against Peru) and 10,000 Bogotans patriotically paraded?this despite the fact that Peru's government has apologized for the "Leticia Incident" of Sept. 1 when Peruvian hotheads seized Leticia, Colombian port...
...more revolt against bullet-scarred President Luis Sanchez Cerro of Peru was put down by Federal troops at Huaras last week. The President closed both the National College and the National University as "hotbeds of revolutions," appealed for voluntary contributions to purchase three squadrons of bombing planes useful in putting down further revolts...