Word: peru
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...President also appointed as Ambassador to Peru swashbuckling, dark-haired William Douglas Pawley, 48, who built airplanes in China and India, helped get the Flying Tigers started...
...detained detonator, a marine inspector of the Hamburg-Amerika Line, became chief Nazi saboteur for Chile and Peru in 1939. Last month, when Chile took real steps toward war with Germany, he and his operatives glided into action with time bombs neatly plopped into the holds of nitrate ships. Their score to date: five ships fired, 102 lives taken...
Chilean democrats worried as they eyed the new, deadlocked Congress, which promised no more action than its predecessor. Their Popular Front Government still existed, in spite of rightist gains. But all their neighbor countries-Argentina, Peru, Bolivia-were governed non-democratically. Unless Chile's drifting President and bickering Congress got together, the problems following peace might result in a retreat to dictatorship...
This influx of last-minute belligerents called attention to the legalistic aspects of the Security Conference's voting roster. Would Russia, for instance, ask to see the list of Peru's war dead? If, as the British and U.S. governments feared, the U.S.S.R. would claim a vote for each of its autonomous republics, could the point be made that none of the 16 nor the U.S.S.R. itself had formally declared war on Germany...
...Peru declared war on Germany and Japan...