Word: peru
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...farther south the Ancient Americans wandered, the weirder their civilization became. In northern Peru's coastal Viru Valley, diggers were last week excavating the whole series of civilizations that flourished there in the past 2,000 years...
...present crew of diggers are certain to find many new prizes, for Peru is an archeological treasure house. Exciting unfinished business is the neatly planned city of Chan Chan, whose massive ruins cover twelve square miles. Chan Chan, 30 miles north of the Viru Valley, was probably the greatest prehistoric metropolis in the Americas. Its culture lasted until 1400, when the Incas swept down from the High Sierras, freezing Peruvian life to such brittle rigidity that it shattered to dust when the Spaniards came...
...Peru, housewives were being turned away from empty-shelved butcher and bakery shops; if the Government acceded to Hoover's request for a 40% cut in local food consumption, it might well write its own downfall. By the time Hoover got to Santiago, he announced flatly that he expected no help from Chile...
...same weeks the spectre of wheat and meat shipments has forced important oil and rubber concessions out of Peru, a customs union out of Bolivia, and has brought the Peron-sponsored candidates into a favored position in the coming Uruguayan elections. The U.S. may propose hemisphere military cooperation, but unless it supplements surface collaboration with effective economic opposition to Peron, the vital Spanish-speaking belt will be lost to American leadership as it is forced into the orbit of the power state below the Mar Del Plata. The past conduct of the Argentine government during the war is ample illustration...
With Perón moving swiftly, confidently to create Argentine leadership in South America for the old scheme of a bloque austral (Argentina, Paraguay, Uruguay, Bolivia, Chile, Peru), last week's U.S. proposal for hemisphere military cooperation came none too soon. But it pointed to fresh U.S. initiative in Latin American affairs (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS...