Word: peru
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...diplomatic grapevine last week spread the biggest piece of Pan American news since Franklin Roosevelt began exploiting the Good Neighbor policy: U.S. ambassadors had called on the Presidents of Chile, Venezuela, Peru, Ecuador, Uruguay and Paraguay, to present them with personal letters from the U.S. President suggesting that they declare war on the Axis...
...soft talk was heard in Quito. Ecuadoran resentment against the U.S. had simmered since the Rio Conference of 1942, when the U.S. seemed to favor big Peru in the settlement of its 112-year-old boundary dispute with little Ecuador. Last week the resentment boiled over. There were cries of "Yankee imperialism." The Assembly met in secret session, issued a blast in the press condemning the Peruvian boundary settlement. It inferentially warned its Washington representatives not to give away any more Ecuadoran territory. The nation had already lost altogether too much...
...carefully picked to do two important jobs-set up radio communication with Germany, and find places of refuge for other spies. The leader, German-born Erich Gimpel, was a tough, 35-year-old radio engineer. He had learned communications well in seven years with Telefunken, German radio corporation in Peru. He had been interned in Texas, after arrest by Peruvian authorities in 1942, had stayed long enough to pick up U.S. colloquialisms, and spoke English with only the faintest of accents. Repatriated, he had been tried and proved as a courier between Berlin and Madrid. Then he was accepted...
Greatest increases over peacetime totals are to be found among China and the republics of South America. Argentina outnumbers the other Latin American delegations with 11. Colombia, Chile, Brazil, Mexico, Venezuela, Peru, and Guatemala follow as the list trails off to three students each from Panama and Urugday, two from Bolivia and Ecuador and an aggregate of nine from five islands of the West Indies...
When Douglas Rigby was a boy, an adventurous relative brought home some shrunken human heads from Peru. The memory of those heads, he claims, has prevented him from collecting anything himself-except facts about collectors. For the past seven years Douglas Rigby and his wife Elizabeth have been collecting just such facts. The result is a 517-page book, chock-full of photographs and line drawings: Lock, Stock & Barrel (Lippincott; $5), the first such history ever compiled...