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...Government of Colombia or the Government of Peru would announce that a skirmish had been fought, a river gunboat bombed or an airplane shot at in the vicinity of Leticia, the remote, malarial jungle town on the upper Amazon ceded by Peru to Colombia in 1922, seized by Peruvian irregulars last September, squabbled over ever since (TIME...
...fleet which Colombia sent 5,000 mi. around the turnip-shaped top of South America and up the River Amazon (TIME, Feb. 6) lay anchored all last week off Tabatinga, a Brazilian port only five miles from Leticia, the port which Peruvian irregulars seized from Colombia last September and which Colombia intends to repossess...
...Lima, Peru's Cabinet, after sweating over the Stimson & League notes, justified themselves as follows: "The Peruvian Government is not defending the territory of Leticia but its fellow countrymen who occupy it with a view of securing its return to its former nationality, which is not a crime justifying the use of measures of extermination...
...Named after beauteous Miss Leticia Smith, daughter of a onetime British vice consul at Iquitos, by her lovelorn Peruvian admirer, Engineer Charon. When Engineer Charon returned from founding Leticia he was vexed to find that Miss Smith had married an Englishman, removed to Mexico...
...Lima the Peruvian Government of often-wounded President Luis Sanchez Cerro did not exactly help matters by issuing an enormous map. This showed that their political opponents, the ousted regime of former Peruvian President Augusto B. Leguia, ceded to other countries 278,887 square miles of Peruvian territory by perfectly legal treaties...