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...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...
...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 for more dangerous duty...
Washington's Latin American circles were abuzz with an acid anecdote last week. A Peruvian surgeon and a Venezuelan architect (so the story ran) were dining with two men from the U.S. State Department. They discussed whose profession was the oldest. "Mine," said the surgeon, "God created Eve out of Adam's rib . . . by a surgical operation." "Mine," said the architect, "God first created the world out of chaos . . . the work of an architect." The two State Department men kept mum. "And what do you say?" the Latin Americans finally asked. Said one of the State Department...
...seniors have their perennial man-out-of-uniform, too. Last week we mentioned Captain Higueras of the Peruvian Air Force as being the most distinctively dressed man in the junior class. This week that honor, as far as the seniors are concerned, goes to First Lieutenant Thomas B. Lenhart of the United States Marine Corps...
Capt. Higueras has been in this country for more than a year. Landing in San Francisco after a 24 day cruise up the west coast of the Americas, he immediately struck out for Marine Base, Quantico. Va., where he was in charge of a squad of Peruvian soldiers working at the airfield there. After eight months in the South, he was ordered to NSCS, where he is now sweating it out over rough rolls, smooth rolls, and TPA's with the rest of us. Not a pilot, he specializes in aviation supply...