Word: peru
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...TIME is delighted to hear that Peru does not want to swallow the little fellow next door...
...slanderous to charge that Peru "had been improving the truce." The truth is that Peru accepted the armistice under the double condition that guarantees be offered to Peruvian residents of Ecuador, and that a decree of the Quito Government referring to mobilization be revoked. This last condition was only fulfilled on the 31st of July at twelve noon, and at 6 p.m. of the same day the Peruvian troops ceased firing...
...That the Peruvians "headed for Portovelo where the Ecuadorian Government runs a gold mine" is simply a fantastic tale. Peru has done nothing except repel an aggression and take possession of the places where it started...
...There is not the slightest danger that Peru "might solve the boundary dispute by swallowing the smaller fellow next door." Peru has been more than patient before the repeated advances and offenses of Ecuador, and has declared in every possible way that it has no design of conquest...
...declaring that "the boundary line has always run along the Zarumilla River" Senor Alzamora takes the stand always taken by Peru on the boundary question, a stand never accepted by Ecuador. Tumbes is the smallest section of the disputed area, but it is definitely disputed...