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...quite so conclusive was the evidence that Nazi propaganda had touched off the inflammable question of the Peru-Ecuador boundary.* But to U.S. newsmen in Lima, Peruvian authorities said frankly that they were less worried about the war than they were about the way German propagandists would distort any U.S. offer to arbitrate. To Argentina the belligerents finally sent their promise to arbitrate...
...earlier that Japan had offered Peru the use of 5,000 trained Japanese reservists for an attack on Ecuador. Said Peru: the report was ''laughable, ridiculous and contemptible." But any sons, born in Peru, of the numerous Japanese residents there would be liable for service with the Peruvian Army...
...Carlos Concha, chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee of the Peruvian Senate, and Dr. Homero Viteri Lafronte, onetime Ecuadorian Minister to the U.S. hastened to Washington. During the seven-hour flight from Miami to Washington on the same plane they showed no sign of recognizing each other. In the steaming jungle that neither country really wants Peruvians and Ecuadorians kept on shooting at one another...
...without satisfaction, between times developing short tempers and occasionally exchanging shots. The latest effort to end the dispute, through mediation by Argentina, Brazil and the U.S., ended last month when Peru refused to discuss the sovereignty of three of the four areas, claiming they were indisputably Peruvian...
However it started, one night there was a burst of shooting along the amorphous border. Soon a grown-up battle was raging, with machine guns and artillery backing up the rifle fire, with Peruvian warplanes roaring overhead. Quito said Peruvian bombers had destroyed the military barracks and a church in the Ecuadorian town of Chacras, that frontier forces had attacked at other points on the frontier. Lima claimed that Ecuadorian troops had tried to cross into Peruvian territory, had been driven back. After two days the fighting died down...